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How to Deal with Heavy Traffic Lanes

How do we successfully deal with traffic lanes?
May 2, 2013

When you walk through the front entrance of your commercial carpet cleaning account, it is often easy to locate the busiest areas by following the trail of asphalt tracked in from the parking lot on matted carpet that is already heavily impacted with soil.


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Rug Repair Part I: An Introduction to Rug Conservation, Restoration and Repair

Rug repair is a craft requiring knowledge and skill.
April 3, 2013

Why offer rug repair? Being a full service rug cleaning and restoration facility sets you apart from most carpet cleaners that also offer rug cleaning.


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Recognize, Reward… Then Relax!

So how do you break free from being an owner/operator and morph your company into critical mass?
April 3, 2013

Sooner or later, you will want to add employees to your growing cleaning or restoration business. It may be something so simple (and yes, sad) as an aging body crying out for relief.


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Carpet Cleaning vs. Carpet Restoration

There's a difference between carpet cleaning and carpet restoration.
April 3, 2013

A friend just bought an Asian food café and the loop-pile nylon carpets haven’t been cleaned in about 2½ years. There are heavy food soils and the walkways are matted with grease. What can I do to clean the carpet?


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Maintaining Grout Surfaces

Identification of grout can help determine maintenance practices that will work best for the classification of grout
April 3, 2013

Grout is a mortar that is used to fill the empty spaces between ceramic and stone tiles.


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Low-Moisture Carpet Cleaning: Where Does the Dirt Go?

On low moisture applications, where they make sense and what to use during the process
April 3, 2013

If you have incorporated encapsulation cleaning – a form of low-moisture cleaning – into your professional offerings and used it on your customer’s carpets, you may have asked yourself where the dirt goes.


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First Class, Bulk or Saturation: Which Postcard Mailing Method is Right for You?

A look at the three primary ways to send postcards
April 3, 2013

One of the biggest questions I get from cleaners is, “What is the best way to send postcards?”


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The Definition of Leadership

There can only be one vision.
April 3, 2013

Last month I shared my definition of leadership: Effectively communicating your vision, mission and purpose. Today, I’d like to share what I mean by vision.


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Cleaning, Preserving and Protecting Hardwood Floors: An Ace-in-the-Hole Add-On

Preserving hardwood floors is simple and safe enough that with the right equipment, we could train the homeowner to do his/her own.
March 1, 2013

You can make more per hour preserving hardwood floors than you can cleaning carpet.


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Building a Drama-Free Business: Part II

Find personal freedom without compromising your business
March 1, 2013

So can you develop great, drama-free employees so you can find and enjoy this elusive personal freedom? My answer is a resounding “yes,” if you have the right concepts, tools and the fire in the belly to break free!


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