September 16, 2015—Cleaning industry association ISSA has added four new videos in recent weeks to its collection of free ISSA-TV Educational Quick Clip cleaning industry-related videos. The new ones cover effective cleaning company Web sites, showing cleaning employees appreciation, tips for negotiating, and calculating equipment productivity rates. The four most recent ones are highlighted below.
ISSA-TV: Six Ways to Pump up Your Website
The latest ISSA-TV video acknowledges that most cleaning companies have a company Web site. In the clip, Jason Filler, director of Axis Group Marketing Organization, advises the companies how to make their Web site powerful enough that visitors not only find the site but stay there. He also advises companies on how to engage people who are accessing the Web site via mobile devices.
ISSA-TV: Keeping Your Employees Happy: It’s a Matter of Thanks
ISSA-TV Educational Quick Clip from the week of August 26 reminds cleaning employers and managers that nobody likes being taken for granted, and that it is easy to forget to show appreciation in the hustle and bustle of the workweek. In the video, Jancoa Janitorial Service CEO Mary Miller gives some tips for keeping employees happy and reveals the unusual way one employer recognizes his staff each week.
ISSA-TV: Tried-and-True Negotiation Tips
Acknowledging that many people are uncomfortable with negotiating, particularly the give-and-take process of buying a vehicle, in the August 12 Quick Clip Dr. Michael Workman lays out the four laws of negotiation—and what viewers can do to improve their negotiating skills.
ISSA-TV: Productivity Rates Made Easy
The cleaning video for the week of June 15 asks viewers, “What formula do you use to calculate equipment productivity rates?” In the Quick Clip, Institute of Inspection, Cleaning and Restoration Certification (IICRC) Master Textile Cleaner Richard Bodo reveals how to plug in the right numbers to get accurate results for workloading, and offers some suggestions to make this essential task simpler.
