In October of 2000, I wrote an article for a magazine about why cleaning companies fail. Most failures are caused by one or more of these reasons; under capitalization, poor planning, low cash flow, ignoring customers, procrastination, ineffective marketing, and having a closed mind.
This was written before the 9/11 catastrophe, the war on terror, skyrocketing oil prices and the current economic debacle. In retrospect, this has been a terrible decade, but surprisingly most of the people I know in our business are still in our business in spite of all that's happened.
Profits may be down a little and we may have to work a little harder bringing in business, but we're still here. Think about this when you watch the negative nightly news with its litany of troubles. I'd rather be in our business than a lot of others I can think of, wouldn't you?
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