Getting Involved in Local Volunteer Activities

The Town of Crawford holds an annual town cleanup day each year. This year a local sweeping company, East Coast Industrial Services, Inc., donated a sweeper and operator to the event. East Coast’s owner, Jay Presutti, also pitched in to help for the day, along with his 12-year-old son, Neil.

Ways to Improve Cash Flow for Parking Area Sweeping Contractors

Here are some ideas you can use to get the money owed you in a more timely fashion.

Hiring the Right People

One of the toughest tasks we have as managers is hiring the right people to do the job. Here are some of the best ways to find candidates.

7 Tips for Better Business Cards

Your business card can be your most powerful advertising and marketing tool. Get your card into the hands of people who can do business with you and profit is sure to follow.

Projecting the Real Costs of Doing Business

One of the most frequent, and perhaps also the most fatal, mistakes that can you can make is to price your services at too low a rate. Start-ups, with their natural over-eagerness to gain new accounts, are especially prone to this. Even experienced contractors don’t always have a clear understanding of their actual costs per hour. If you are at all uncertain about how you are pricing your accounts, do yourself and your family a favor and take time to make certain that your bidding includes all of the following areas.

Using a Computer and the Internet in Your Sweeper Contracting Business

Before his untimely death in a car accident in 2011, Dale McCaskill, owner of South Carolina-based Southco Sweeping and Maintenance, discussed in this article the many ways his company was using the WorldSweeper.com website and other Internet websites, as well as the computer in general, to make his business more competitive and profitable.

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