Help Wanted! When Helping Yourself Means Hiring Help!

Help Wanted! When Helping Yourself Means Hiring Help!

Are you new to the entrepreneurial game or maybe a seasoned solo-preneur for the last decade? Either way, there comes a time when your business growth starts to outpace your humble “one man and a van” setup. To scale up, you need to find yourself a sidekick. Yes,...
Win The 2022 War On Talent

Win The 2022 War On Talent

If you have been working at scaling a business in the last few years you have surely encountered the great labor shortage of the 2020s.  It seems the only thing we aren’t encountering these days is enough quality applicants or new hires to grow our business into the...
In Marketing They Say: Test, Test, Test

In Marketing They Say: Test, Test, Test

Hello. Jim DuBois here again from WindowCleaningBusinessCoach.com. The year is already halfway over. How does that happen so fast? We were entering a pandemic, and now as we depart from one, unfortunately, business owners enter into another. Pandemic 2: trying to find...
The ABCs of Recruiting

The ABCs of Recruiting

As we are in the midst of what I like to call “the summer lull”, I’ve found it very important to not get lulled to sleep and lose sight of capacity and demand. We know the demand will come in the fall, and at Blue Skies we’ve learned the hard way that if we rest on...
Transitioning From Busy To Slow

Transitioning From Busy To Slow

Springtime in the window cleaning industry is generally about as crazy as it gets. Springtime in the window cleaning industry in 2021, OFF THE CHARTS CRAZY! This has been a downright nutty start to the year, and as we turn the corner on July 4th and hit what I like to...