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Wondering how to make your splash in the sea of service providers in the market today? It’s true what they say—it really is all about customer service. Here are some tips to keeping your customers happy and returning for more of the service you provide:
Be friendly.Remember that when a customer hires your company, they are not just paying for the service; they’re paying for you. Of course, they expect the job to be done right, but they also expect you and your employees to be friendly, courteous, and respectful in each and every correspondence and point of contact you make with them. From the secretary who answers the phone when they call to make an appointment to the person who shows up at their door to provide the service, they expect smiles, greetings, and common courtesy. Think of this as an integral part of the service you’re providing, and you’ll be giving yourself and your business a leg-up on the competition.
Be professional.No matter what service you are providing to your customer whether it be a manicure, a house cleaning, or a septic tank service, you and your employees should conduct themselves with professionalism at all times. This means dressing appropriately and professionally, managing communication with the customer politely and effectively, and handling the customer’s possessions with care and respect. If you are good at what you do, but fail to exude professionalism, your business will suffer as a result.
Be dependable. Make sure your customers can depend on you to provide services when you say you will. For instance, if you state that your office hours are from 10-5 everyday, don’t leave at 4:45 because if and when the phone rings, you will likely have lost a customer. If you promise to provide a specific service, no matter how small, make sure that it is done and done right every time. Keep your appointments, and never be late. If you’re reliable and dependable, your customers won’t have the need to call your competitors.
Guarantee your services. Give your customers confidence in their decision to hire you by guaranteeing your services. You can either offer them a money-back guarantee if they’re dissatisfied for any reason, or at the very least, assure them that you will make right on any mistake or less-than-quality service. If they know you stand by your work, then they’ll feel much more comfortable paying you for your service.
Offer a competitive price.Even if you offer impeccable service in a dependable and professional way, your business may still find itself gasping for air if you don’t offer a competitive price. Do your homework and find out what other service providers in your area and in your niche are charging, and then match or beat their price. Starting out, you should offer the lowest price you can while still turning a profit—at least until you build your brand, your reputation, and your customer base.
Follow-up.To maintain your customer base, you need to be sure to provide service even after the sale. Don’t assume that a one-time customer will return to you for future business, even if you did a great job. Make the effort to keep your brand in the back of their mind. For instance, you could call a few weeks after the service to see if your customer is completely satisfied. Or, perhaps you could send monthly reminders for follow-up services or “Thank You” cards to communicate your appreciation for their business. These seemingly small efforts, when performed consistently could potentially result in a hefty return on future business.
The most important thing to remember when working in the service industry is that the service itself is only half of your business. What’s the other half? You and your employees. If the customer likes your work but finds your customer service lacking, they may look elsewhere and even pay a higher price for a company who acts as if they appreciate their business. Slap on a smile, shake hands, and bite your tongue if you have to—whatever it takes to keep the customer happy. The happier your customers are, the more likely they will spread the word about your business, and return to you for future service calls. And what does that mean for you? A healthier—and happier—bottom line.
Running a successful cleaning company is of special interest to Camilo Kawas, who is the owner of a commercial cleaning company.
Finding the right vacuum cleaner can be overwhelming with all the different vacuums in the cleaning industry. To find the right one for you, there are many things you have to take into consideration. Austin Professional Cleaning Services has compiled a list of tips on buying a vacuum cleaner that can help you decide on one.
Vacuum cleaners can clean different types of surface like carpets, hardwood floors, upholstery and draperies, and stairs. There are some vacuums that have special filters which can help eliminate dust mites, pet dander, and odors. The best thing to find the vacuum you need is to read the features the vacuums offer which can help you decide depending on what you are looking for.
Do you vacuum your carpet often? If you do then the light-weight stick model is recommended. If you wait longer than a week to vacuum then you should go with a larger upright or canister model which has a more powerful motor. Another factor to take into consideration is how big your home is and how much carpet you have. If you have a large home with large carpets you should pick a bigger and more powerful vacuum.
Vacuum cleaners without bags are cheaper to maintain. The problem they have is that when you empty the dirt collected, it can be messy and the dirt can fall again where you just cleaned. The bag-less vacuums also need a filter which can be more expensive to replace than the bags. The vacuums with bags are easy to maintain since you just have to throw away the bag the problem is that buying the bags can be expensive and sometimes the bags get discontinued. We recommend the new vacuums without bags since the vacuums with bags loss suction when they are full.
Both of the vacuums have their advantages. The upright vacuums have a carpet height adjustment which can help you clean all the different types of carpets you have. The upright vacuum are also handy to store and quick to take out. The Canister vacuums are lighter than the upright which make them easier to move around and are better for the hard to reach places. They are also smaller and easier to store than the upright. Picking between these two depend on your personal preference.
To help you find the best vacuum cleaner with their comparisons and reviews check out the following webpage: Vacuum cleaner review
It was amazing to read that the Canister vacuums are lighter than the upright which makes them easier to move around. Our vacuum exploded last week and left a heavy cloud of smoke that set off our fire alarm. We will be sure to keep in mind that information when we talk to a salesman about buying a new one!
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This site is composed of extracts from Rex Gilroy’s Book: Giants from the Dreamtime - The Yowie in Myth & Reality [copyright (c) 2001 Rex Gilroy, Uru Publications.
What appears to be even more recent evidence of the Yowie's [ie Homo erectus] continuing survival, was found by me in January, 1999 in dense forest terrain, high up in the mountain country behind Hanging Rock, which rises up on the eastern side of Nundle, south-east of Tamworth.
This eerie forest country has long been regarded as "Yowie territory" by the locals around Hanging Rock and Nundle, for it has since pioneering days been regarded as THE major region for 'hairy man' sightings in the New England district.
It was while on a visit to the Nundle State Forest area, east of Hanging Rock, together with my wife Heather, on January 21st, that I stumbled upon an open area atop a deep gully overlooking a vast wilderness that stretched to the eastern horizon. Scattered about the area I found a number of what were undoubtedly only weeks old, crudely flaked stone tools; scrapers, choppers and other implements.
Within a few days I had found another site containing crude choppers and scrapers, once again situated in a very remote, out of the way area of dense bushland; tools that appeared to be only a few months old.
I have seen primitive implements of identical appearance over the past few years at other locations, scattered about the former shoreline of a long-vanished giant lake system that covers a vast area to the west of Tamworth, and which had been part of an extensive series of inter-connecting lakes extending north-west to Moree and southward down towards Mudgee during the last ice-age.
Yet the crude implements found around this former lake pre-dated any Aboriginal examples and are identical to those manufactured by Home erectus in Java and China. The massive lake systems in question dried up within the last 15,000 years, although deposits near Attunga, to the north of Tamworth, where the first Homo erectus tools were identified by me in 1991, date back around 400,000 years.
Covering many hundreds of square kilometres, these great water supplies would have attracted primitive Homo erectus people and later humans, who fed upon the abundant fish, giant marsupial and other fauna that roamed the shores.
I theorise, based upon the available evidence, that wandering groups of Homo erectus people, having entered Australia over a vast period of time, penetrated the Central West/New England region, to congregate around the shores of these vast lakes, and gradually evolve into the first modern humans, who in turn eventually spread northwards beyond Australia.
That this region was the very epicentre of modern human evolution is a proposition which only future archaeological discoveries can vindicate. Yet wherever that 'epicentre' was, there can be little doubt that it was somewhere on this continent.
Mr Neil Hoskins, who is an experience bushman and ex-soldier, was spending Christmas 1999 on the Colo River, up in a wilderness area at Cattle Camp No 1, outside the small town of Putty. It was daytime, when as he was working with cattle, he spotted about 30 metres away, a "one metre tall human-looking figure standing, observing him on the edge of scrub. The little male was naked and black-skinned. Neil observed that he had "a long pointy nose and black hair".
Neil realised that this strange little creature was a still-wild pygmy, but before he could get another look the pygmy-size creature turned away and quickly vanished into the foliage. The Dharug Aborigines of the Blue Mountains west of Sydney called the pygmy-size people [other than the yowies] with whom they shared these wilds the Boothoo geermi - Boothoo 'little', geer 'hair', mi 'man' - or "Little hairy man".
The Boothoo geermi were said to be particularly prolific in the vast wildernesses making up the Jamieson/Cedar/Megalong/Burragorang/Jenolan and Kanangra ranges to the south and south-west of Katoomba, where they shared the land with those other "hairy men" with which this book is largely concerned.
During March 1990 Mr Wayne O'Brian and two friends were camped in the Howqua area east of Lake Eildon. While exploring around the edge of thick scrub through long grass, the men saw blowflies buzzing around something in the grass nearby.
Upon investigation they found the carcase of a calf that had been chewed up, and about which were bones and clumps of hair. Shortly after, in a nearby gully they found a pile of excreta. At the bottom of a patch of scrub they smelt a very strong pungent odour. Nearby, in a muddy area the men discovered a number of larger-than-man sized footprints.
Later, in July 1999 Mr Peter Whiteside and two other friends were hunting in a thickly timbered area near Lake Eildon when, on the bank of a creek, they found marks where some heavy object, like the rump of some huge man-like creature, had been sitting. Hairs of a greyish colour were found embedded into the muddy depression. Nearby campers came upon several huge man-ape like footprints in a mud patch.
During 1999 rumours circulated around the Wee Waa district that a large hairy man-ape creature of 2.4m or so in height and very muscular in appearance, was roaming the scrublands thereabouts, and that he was responsible for a number of dead sheep found at one bushland location, their limbs wrenched from their sockets. Large footprints were left by the hairy manbeast about the scene of this mass 'kill'. Bushmen with guns and dogs scoured the region but failed to find any further traces of the mystery hominid, as he apparently moved on elsewhere.