As a small business owner, you need to manage everything well, even external obstacles. What you master helps your operations run smoothly and what you struggle with keeps you worrying about staying on pace. Throw in the persistent labor shortage — which, by the way, the experts predict will continue for the "foreseeable future" — …
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While it is impossible to know for sure how many street sweeper brooms are replaced each year, there are ways to get some idea of the number. New York City alone has about 450 traditional street sweepers. Denver has 30. While most small communities might have just one or two street sweepers, you can …
South Plainfield, NJ, January 2024 — Keystone Plastics, Inc., a leading manufacturer of replacement brooms for street sweeping and road construction, is thrilled to announce the newest addition to their team, Terry Parsons, who joins as the Sales/Business Development Executive. In his role at Keystone Plastics, Terry will serve as a Sales/Business Development Executive, focusing …
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What’s so unique about the Elite Sweeping Company, Inc., in Kansas City, Kansas? Well, the business has sustained its long-term success on consistency in service quality for over four decades. And, yes, that is a huge achievement by any standard. That track record puts the Elite organization in the class of exceptional providers in the …
As a small business owner, of course, you need to stay alert to changing trends in your market and the larger economy. Here is the list of issues determined by the Small Business Administration (SBA) to be the hottest for entrepreneurs going into 2024. This information was published in late November 2023. But, if you’re …
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How many times have you heard the phrase “time is money” when talking about best business practices? While it’s a cliche, it’s based on a truthful premise. The longer a task takes, the more expensive it becomes to action. Where a business needs to take on more customers to expand, streamlining a process is crucial. …
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As business owners plan to purchase sweeping equipment, trucks, or other machines to fuel business growth in 2024, it’s helpful to understand the decision-making process that qualifies an applicant for an equipment loan. As a direct lender in business for over twenty-five years, Oakmont Capital Services is happy to “pull back the curtain” on our …
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John and Valerie Dewitz, owners of Above & Beyond Hydroseed found themselves needing to buy a street sweeper after a bad subcontractor experience. John started the company with his wife, Valerie. They specialize in erosion control and hydroseed out of Ridgefield, Washington, and been in business since 2002. John, Val, and the Above & Beyond …
“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well. …
Our job as street sweeping and paving contractors is vital to the environmental health and aesthetic quality of our society. As such, we have to be devoted to ensuring that we deliver excellent service to the constituencies that we serve. In order to do this, we need to maintain our equipment effectively. Proper maintenance of …
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