The SFS / VAST team of Jeff Cutshall, Chuck Violand, Bill Yeadon and Steve Toburen share their insights into the best business practices and how you can make it alone in the Cleaning and Restoration Industry.

As Chuck reflects on how the typical carpet cleaning or restoration business is much like a boat he focuses on your business wind- MONEY! No money? Then as a business you are “dead in the water”. A simple concept? Yes. But at times agonizingly difficult to implement. Read on for Chuck’s meditations …

The road to success in building any successful carpet cleaning business has its share of bombshells. Meg Burdick shares some surprising insights from her numbers on repeat customers. Read on for this thought provoking installment of “Meg’s Story” …

Everyone gains from attending Jon-Don’s Strategies for Success seminar. Many students excel and a few actually transform their lives with the “SFS vision”. (This is not to say that their “journey to success ” is without challenges!) Read on and see why Meg and John Burdick are proving to be in this very select group of dynamic entrepreneurs …

You would never knowingly hire a heroin addict, would you? And yet you are allowing another equally insidious addiction to continue without trying to stamp it out. Steve shares one sure-fire (but very painful) “tough love” approach …

Chuck Violand has been kicking off the Strategies for Success seminar for the last couple of years reflecting on his love of boats … and how different business models are like varied boats- all of which require different skills and tactics to avoid a tragic shipwreck. So which type of boat are you skippering? Check back in frequently to see Chuck’s latest thoughts …

Repeat customers that advocate your carpet cleaning services to others are your BEST marketing tool. On the other hand if you mess up …

Read how SFS members Larry and Elissa Holder patiently (and sneakily) sowed the seeds that just may lead to some HUGE commercial carpet cleaning contracts from the U.S. government!