North American Sweeper Magazine

Technology innovations facilitated just about everything entrepreneurs needed to do in the commercial pavement sweeping industry during 2019. Try to think of any sales, service, quality assurance, or administrative function that is part of modern sweeping service operations that is not now supported by some technology that’s been either created or innovated within recent years. […]

On both sides of the table, a prospective hire interview can be one of the most challenging aspects of business. The hurdles for the interviewee seeking the job are obvious, but what about for the employer? An interview can be a pivotal moment where you identify that new employee who will take your business to […]

There are countless challenges for small business owners. All agree, it’s a complex proposition to start and grow a business, especially in the ever-more complicated modern business environment. We can’t take on all the difficulties facing today’s commercial sweeping business operator in this article, but here are five major points of advice for overcoming the […]

Next month will be the 11th anniversary of Captain Chelsey “Sully” Sullenberger’s heroic emergency landing on the Hudson River. On an icy January day in New York City, Sully’s plane struck a flock of birds shortly after takeoff, causing power failure in both engines and rapid loss of altitude. In just over three harrowing minutes, […]

According to the US Small Business Administration, small businesses contributed 65% of new job growth over the last two decades. The small business sector also accounted for 97.5% of all firms that export goods and services overseas (SBA.gov). With heavy influence on the US economy and in global markets, the federal government is unsurprisingly interested […]

To grow a small pavement sweeping company usually requires little proactivity. Without a basic growth strategy, business owners can find themselves overworked while their businesses are underperforming. To improve sluggish growth rates, there are some low-cost and no-cost marketing solutions that can go a long way in helping hard-working entrepreneurs in highly competitive markets throughout […]

At the pace the average commercial sweeping business’s service team maintains every night, it may seem that all that can be done is already being done to maximize performance. After all, what else is there? All the drivers are showing up at every one of their accounts, and GPS is confirming the time spent on […]

In his TED Talk “Why humans run the world,” viewed over 1.3 million times on YouTube, historian Yuval Noah Harari offers this insight on what makes humans so much more successful than animals: “We can cooperate flexibly with countless numbers of strangers because we alone, of all the animals on the planet, can create and […]

What do today’s Property Managers really want from their parking lot sweeping service providers? Consider the difficulties and priorities of today’s busy, constantly multi-tasking Property Managers (PMs). These professionals struggle to stay afloat in a sea of urgent detailed action items, communications, and tactical challenges every day. Great numbers of the Property Managers’ operational challenges […]

Many sweeping business owners may be unaware of some of today’s state-of-the-art tools and free or inexpensive alternatives for more efficient quality management processes. Innovative technologies as well as time-proven methodologies are being used by savvy sweeping service operators throughout the country, revealing an array of strong selection of quality assurance programs, most of which […]