Overcoming Your Biggest Competitor (26 Jun 2006) Understanding your competition is vitally important to sell effectively. Yet we often think our competition is the big guy down the street. The truth is, the biggest competition you face is the status quo. If you can understand how to help people change what they are doing, your sales results will increase dramatically!
Why is My Restaurant Not Full Every Monday Night? (26 Jun 2006) In a quest for customers and to keep those customers, restaurants are now compelled to develop a marketing plan. Marketing plans are a crucial component for anyone who has the desire to make their restaurant a success.
Preparing to Launch Your Small Business (26 Jun 2006) Small business owners often enter their field unprepared, untrained, and severely unplanned. It doesn't have to be that way. Here are a few solid principles to help you enter the battle field successfully.
Got Stimulation? (26 Jun 2006) Stimulating creative and critical thinking is difficult under normal circumstances. Getting away from the day-to-day makes it much easier and more effective.
How to Start a Carpet Cleaning Company (26 Jun 2006) Opening a carpet cleaning business is a great way to earn money as your own boss. This is a relatively simple business to start, with low overhead, and little experience required. Start up costs can be minimal, if you shop around. Additionally, there is a steady market for quality work.
Learning and Growing (26 Jun 2006) Every lesson provides an opportunity to grow your business...
Where Can People Find Information About Starting A Business? (26 Jun 2006) People often need help finding the information they need to become a successful business owner; especially first time business owners. This article explains where a good place to start is.
How to Find Success in the Import Export Business (26 Jun 2006) Take advantage of world politics today and start your own import export business. Are you organized, efficient, and ready to make your future in an opportunity all your own? Import Export Business Opportunities are expanding and there is room for you!
Pressure Washer Companies and Steam Cleaner Maintenance (26 Jun 2006) If you run a pressure washing business it is a must that you understand and take care of your equipment. It is your livelihood. Proper maintenance is a must. If your equipment does not work; you make no money.
Routine Maintenance of High Pressure Hot Water Motors (26 Jun 2006) If you run a pressure washer business you need complete uptime on your equipment, break downs can be costly if your billing rates are $100 to $150.00 per hour. If you are bidding by the job there are times when it is absolutely a great profession to be in.
Comparing Boston Area for a mobile car wash business (26 Jun 2006) The Boston suburbs seem to be rich with possible locations to wash cars and a mobile car wash would be well served in that market. The customers have good jobs, high paying salaries and indeed demand such personal car washing services. They desire these services at home and at work.
Boston Market; Mobile Auto Detailing (26 Jun 2006) Boston itself covers 50 square miles of concrete and traffic, well city limits actually exactly 46 square miles, the entire metro area can be and is often over stated at 1100 square miles, but more realistically about 380 in our humble opinion. And you know some of that is water.
Boston Suburban areas a good choice to run a business (26 Jun 2006) BioTechs even with the latest news had shed over 1000 jobs two years ago, as it was reported by The Financial Times, WSJ, and Bloomberg that only 17 of the nearly 1300 BioTech firms were actually profitable. In 2002 the number of jobs were in the 30,000 range in Biotech.
Pressure Washing Business; Steam Cleaner Fuel Maintenance (26 Jun 2006) It is essential that you fully understand how the fuel system works on your hot water pressure washer or steam cleaner. If you mess it up it could catch on fire and if you are not right there to put it out, you could potentially lose your machine. This type of equipment has been known to explode.
Dispute Resolution; Competing With Other Franchisees (26 Jun 2006) If you are in a franchise and have a territory dispute with another franchisee you need to prevent a lawsuit use dispute resolution techniques to resolve the dispute. Competing with other franchisees is a subject that franchisors would prefer not to need to talk about.
Environmental Pressure Washing in Pennsylvania (26 Jun 2006) If you run a mobile car wash, mobile fleet washing company, mobile auto detailing business or a Pressure Washing firm in Pennsylvania there are things you should know. Pennsylvania is serious about cleaning the environment...
Excuses Franchisees Make; When They Violate Exclusive Territory Agreements (26 Jun 2006) One of the biggest excuses franchisees of home based and serviced based franchises make when violating their exclusive franchise agreement with their franchisor and fellow franchisees is: My Family Works There. As a franchisor, I cannot believe how many times neighboring franchisees steal each others clientele or work outside their exclusive franchise area.
Mobile Car and Truck Washing Vehicle Placement (26 Jun 2006) To maximum potential profits and dollars in a mobile washing business it pays to set up in your mind in advance the best and most strategic place to park, before stopping to wash. You will obviously want to park your rig in a location that allows you to do as many cars as possible without moving the vehicle.
Franchise Territories are Generally Delineated On a Map; Why? (26 Jun 2006) If you own a mobile service or home based franchise your exclusive territory will be delineated on a map in the attachment of your franchise agreement. You will be assigned generally a single city, county or region and another franchisee or team member of the same system will not compete with your although may be right around the corner.
