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Business and Marketing

19 articles

• 2017 Whatcom Home and Garden Show

  March 7 · Business and Marketing, Carpet Cleaning

  This was our first year at the Whatcom Home and Garden Show, really our first show of any kind. We have advertised in many different ways over the years, b

• Fitting the van into the garage

  March 3 · Business and Marketing

  Carpet Cleaning Van not fitting in Garage I took the antenna off of my van and also cut some trim wood out of the top opening of my garage in an attempt to

• IICRC Carpet Cleaning Technician Training

  July 29 · Business and Marketing, Carpet Cleaning

  We made it down to Jon-Don in Seattle for the IICRC Carpet Cleaning Technician course. 2 full days at Jon Don learning the science of cleaning. I learned m

• Licenced and Insured?

  May 11 · Business and Marketing

  Does it really matter if the company you hire is licensed and insured? It sure does. Although a company that isn't licensed and doesn't have insurance will

• More Web Traffic

  May 8 · Business and Marketing, SEO

  I have been keeping track of traffic to my carpet cleaning webpage using statcounter from late 2005 until now. I usually look at info about what search te

• The Carpet Cleaning Section in the Phone book

  May 1 · Business and Marketing

  I used to use the phone book as a gauge of how well our business was going to do in a year. I would excitedly open the phone book to the carpet cleaning se

• Bellingham's Business Cycle

  April 20 · Business and Marketing

  Why is everyone so happy in Bellingham in spring time? Yes there is the whole sun reappearance thing, but it's also when the Bellingham economy starts to p

• Movement on Webpages

  March 10 · Business and Marketing, SEO

  Wordpress theme 2010 allows you to have animation in the header of your webpage which is pretty cool, but you have to know how to make an animation in a .g

• Wordpress Plugins

  February 22 · Business and Marketing, SEO

  For those of you who use wordpress here is a list of plugins that I have found helpful. Who would have thought that I would be using wordpress, a blogging

• TMF and Carpet Care Cleaners

  January 29 · Business and Marketing, Carpet Cleaning

  Participating in industry forums is a wonderful way to continue to learn and grow as a small business owner and as a cleaning professional. Just cleaning m

• Celebrating 10 YEARS

  December 31 · Business and Marketing

  Happy New Years!! 2013 marks 10 years from the time I first ordered carpet cleaning equipment and got into this crazy industry. I was 21 and didn't even ha

• Photography

  November 23 · Business and Marketing

  A picture is worth a thousand words, that's why pictures are an important part of marketing and advertising. If a good picture worth a thousand good words,

• Guerrilla Marketing for Carpet Cleaners

  October 24 · Business and Marketing, Carpet Cleaning

  Guerrilla marketing much like guerrilla warfare is done with a cheap budget and can be very effective. When you are not spending the big bucks to advertize

• Subliminal Advertising

  October 18 · Business and Marketing

  I was on Facebook and came across this photo on someones profile. It's a great looking car, but what made me laugh out loud was the free advertising I am g

• Whatcom and Skagit Counties

  October 13 · Business and Marketing

  I have noticed that there are several service based companies that service both Whatcom and Skagit counties. Right now I am only servicing Whatcom county,

• QR Codes

  September 30 · Business and Marketing

  I've known about QR codes for some time, but now I can hack them. A QR code is a quick way for someone with a QR scanner, meaning anyone with a cell phone

• Being Yourself - The Best Branding of All

  September 27 · Business and Marketing

  As a small start up company I spent the first several years in business training myself to answer questions by saying "we ____" instead of "I _____" I tho

• SEO and the Phonebooks

  September 23 · Business and Marketing, SEO

  As a small business owner I went from spending tens of thousands of dollars on phone book and other print advertising to a 100% non paid internet marketing

• Caffeine

  September 17 · Business and Marketing

  What gets you going in the morning? If it's caffeine you could make a simple change to boost your emotional intelligence. http://www.forbes.com/sites/trav