Management
It's easy to start a business. It's difficult to grow it to create a healthy, thriving company. In this section, you will discover expert advice on how to effectively start, manage and operate a cleaning or restoration business.
From hiring and firing, better staff management, implementing management tools in small and large operations, it's important to make necessary changes in your business to ensure that you succeed in this industry.
ARTICLES
May 23, 2013
Every restoration business owner needs a good, capable sales staff. Here's how to manage the team.
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May 2013 Foreword
May 3, 2013
Become a customer service expert and build a profitable business.
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May 2013 Feature
Face the facts. These aren't water damage technicians.
April 29, 2013
Many owners of restoration contracting businesses started their companies after experience working for other restorers, or perhaps in construction or carpet cleaning businesses.
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It is infectious and can strike at any time. Here’s how to keep this ailment at bay.
April 11, 2013
If you wait in great hopeful expectation, believing a customer is going to call you back and they don’t, you may be suffering from Be-Back-Itis. How can you avoid coming down with Be-Back-Itis?
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April 2013
Motivation: A challenging — but necessary — component of any commercial carpet cleaning company.
April 4, 2013
The tide is turning, the light bulb is coming on, your ship has come in and you are up to your armpits in money… and then you wake up to discover you just had a very nice dream and you still have more work to do to make it reality.
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April 2013
A simple way to become a stronger leader in your company.
April 1, 2013
Tim is a classic outdoorsman. Calling Tim a hunting zealot is an understatement. With him, hunting borders on a religious experience.
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April 1, 2013
It doesn’t hurt to make a few comparisons in the restoration business world.
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March 15, 2013
Many leaders continue to fall victim to organizational apathy. Don’t be one of them.
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March 2013 Commercial Cash Flow
Flex price your way to the final commercial carpet cleaning bid.
March 8, 2013
If you were religious, and could ask God one question, it might be, “Please explain the bid process to me.”
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March 2013 Foreword
March 6, 2013
I’ve always found it interesting that no matter how long someone has been in the industry, there is always something more to learn.
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