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The Value of the 1-800-SWEEPER Vanity Phone Number

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1-800-SWEEPER offers partners an incredible value proposition based on cooperative marketing initiatives, collective buying power, and a shared knowledge base not found elsewhere in our industry.  Although we join 1-800-SWEEPER for different reasons, it is this mix of ideas that takes a sweeping contractor from a prospect to a partner that advocates for our brand.  Sometimes all of the emphasis on this trio of concepts causes us to lose sight of a very simple idea:  our vanity phone number, 1-800-SWEEPER.

If you haven’t already placed our vanity toll free number on all of your trucks yet, here is a list of the top reasons to do so.

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1-800-SWEEPER Welcomes PAM Sweeping, Inc.

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1-800-SWEEPER is proud to introduce another new partner, James Roy of PAM Sweeping, Inc.  in New York.  PAM is a family owned and operated company, 3rd generation sweeping company started by Kenneth Roy Sr. back in 1963.  Although parking lot and street sweeping were originally at the core of the family business, competition and changing market conditions in the 1980’s prompted the formation of two additional related businesses, Powerhouse Paving and Orange Sewer and Drain.

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

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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, but today is the first day of spring, baseball is in the air, and the snow that has blanketed much of the country this winter will soon be a fading memory.  The spring cleanup season will soon be upon us.

When we began work on the 1-800-SWEEPER website in the summer of 2011, a core group of companies rallied around a shared vision of a cooperative business alliance to generate sales leads and create the collective buying power of a $50 million dollar a year business.  Although nobody uttered the phrase, we believed “if you build it, they will come.”  We did build it…..and the business did come.

Perhaps one of the best examples of this analogy is Jim Larko’s decision to invest in a reconditioned Stewart-Amos Starfire S-4 sweeper.

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1-800-SWEEPER Testimonial: Color Me Rad 5K – Boston, MA

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At 1-800-SWEEPER, we  receive all sorts of unusual parking lot sweeping and street sweeping inquiries from a wide range of companies, municipalities, and organizations.  Although we love it every time a new inquiry shows up in our inbox or when the phone rings at HQ, the thank you notes we receive from our satisfied customers are equally rewarding.  This morning, we received a thank you note from the race coordinator of “Color Me Rad”, a nation-wide 5k race venue that travels from city to city.  During Color Me Rad 5k’s, runners are doused with colorful corn starch during the race.  According to the organization’s website, runners “Start out as clean as a newborn babe, and throughout the run, you’ll coat your chaffing thighs with blue, green, pink, purple, and yellow until your face, shirt, and body come out silkscreened like a tie-dyed hippy on the other side.  Each section of the run adds a new explosion of color to your clean, painter’s palate until you cross the finish line into a final blitzkrieg of color.” 

The race concept is playful and fun…but it also makes a huge mess…the type of mess that 1-800-SWEEPER network members can clean up in short order.  We know our members do outstanding work, but nothing beats a testimonial from yet another satisfied customer.  Here is what Jerrica Hall of Color Me Rad had to say about Immaculate Power Sweeping and their 1-800-SWEEPER cleanup efforts:

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