Avoiding The A-Team / B-Team Syndrome

Avoiding The A-Team / B-Team Syndrome

It’s the time window cleaners both crave and dread: your company has grown so much that you could probably hire. But should you? If this was the Family Feud, the Top 5 answers to that question would be:   I don’t wanna  Employees are headaches  It’s hard to find good...
Make Your 2022 Budget

Make Your 2022 Budget

I wrote an article about budgeting early in 2021 that addressed whether a budget is necessary and how to go about it. As you can imagine, since I’m diving back into the ever-exciting topic of budgeting, the short answer was yes, and it’s easier than you think. In this...
Get Up, Clean Up, Show Up

Get Up, Clean Up, Show Up

Michael Draper is the definition of a Renaissance Man. He was in training to be a police officer, worked as a maintenance technician, dabbled in real estate, was the General Manager of a hotel, salesman & then vice president of sales and marketing at a prominent...
Do You Value Feedback From The “Bad” Customers?

Do You Value Feedback From The “Bad” Customers?

Years ago, when I first started my business, I was hired by a very difficult customer who seemed intent on making the 3 hours of my life in her house as miserable as possible. She was wealthy, very pretentious, and she knew she had me on my heels—the litany of...
3 Tricks To Grow

3 Tricks To Grow

This is the topic that no business wants to ever sit down and talk about, lets go all the way back to the beginning for a second.   “Do you remember when you first had the idea to open your own business?”   I imagine it was something like you sitting at your...
5 Tips To Make More Money

5 Tips To Make More Money

Fall is upon us, and for many of us that means making our last push at piling money in the bank to make it through the winter. With that in mind, now is the time to be thinking about the best way to pile that money up and make the most of it. In this article I’m going...