How to Get a Months FREE Area Code For Every Sweeper You Run

Talking to owners in the 1-800-SWEEPER network I’m often surprised that not everyone is taking advantage of our cost saving opportunities.  The only explanation I’ve come up with is that we are a “Hard Headed Bunch” or the perceived saving are too small.  It may also be that savings stated as a percentage just don’t [...]

From the 1-800-SWEEPER Newsroom: New Initiative To Recognize Military Service

Although we often focus on the equipment and technology that forms the backbone of our fleets, at the end of the day, the sweeping business is a service oriented endeavor, and the most important part of our businesses is our staff.  Without the right people in place, even the most modern and up-to-date equipment is [...]

1-800-SWEEPER Welcomes New Partner Clean Sweep, Inc. of Tennessee

1-800-SWEEPER is proud to announce another new partner, Pete Phillips of Clean Sweep, Inc., of Chattanooga, TN.  Founded in 1984, Pete’s company is a second generation, family owned and operated business whose origin’s lie in his mother’s inability to find a reliable, local sweeping service company.  Back in the day, Pete’s mom was working as [...]

Upcoming May 23rd Webinar: Clean Streets Mean Clean Streams

To many contractors, municipal planners, and property managers unfamiliar with our industry’s best practices, a freshly swept street that looks clean is clean.  Like many things in life, appearances can be deceiving.  Did you know that using the wrong type of sweeper can leave behind up to 50% of the heavy metals and other pollutants [...]

Cleaning the Colors of a Rainbow: Immaculate Power Sweeping Profiled in the April Edition of North American Sweeper Magazine

Regular readers of our blog may remember a story we ran about the Color Me Rad Race in Boston last summer.  Color Me Rad is a nationwide 5K race venue that travels city to city.  Runners start the race with a clean white t-shirt, and as they make their way through the course, they are [...]

Reasons to Join 1-800-SWEEPER : Testimonial From Randy Hite of Piedmont Property Services

Sometimes when we finish giving 1-800-SWEEPER presentations, new prospective partners say, “The benefits of being involved in 1-800-SWEEPER sound good…..I like the idea of the cooperative internet marketing, the search engine optimization, the sales leads, and the potential savings I might receive from your buying group, but how do I know if it will really work?”  [...]

Partner Spotlight: Clean Sweep, Inc of Chattanooga, TN Profiled In North American Sweeper Magazine

Pete Phillips of Clean Sweep, in Chattanooga, TN is the latest of our partners to be profiled in this month’s edition of North American Sweeper Magazine.  Like many sweeper companies, Clean Sweep is a second generation, family owned and operated business.  Pete’s mom was a property manager who found reliable sweeping service companies were hard [...]

From the 1-800-SWEEPER Newsroom: Construction and Street Sweeping Calls Prompt New Equipment Purchase

Movie buffs may remember the “If you build it, they will come” line from Field of Dreams.  It is a great line from a fantastic movie….a quote that can apply to a lot of things in life.  It may be a stretch of the imagination to use lines from baseball movies when writing about the sweeping industry, [...]

1-800-SWEEPER Welcomes Buckeye Sweeping, Inc.

For those not already familiar with our newest partner, Buckeye Sweeping’s Mitch Barkman has been involved in the sweeping business since 1985.  Although a native of Northeastern Ohio, Mitch headed south in the early 80’s to work in the booming Texas construction business.  When the oil business fell on hard times, Mitch left the construction [...]

2013 NPE Wrap Up

We hope everyone enjoyed this year’s NPE show in Nashville!   1-800-SWEEPER displayed a 40 ft banner in the convention center parking area, projected the 1-800-SWEEPER logo on the lobby floor of the Renaissance Hotel, and co-sponsored the Sweepers Night Out at the Wildhorse Saloon.  We gave away a RedMax blower by registering NAPSA members at [...]