Wow! Am I ever completely blown away with the help I’ve received to name our new RugBadger. Hundreds and hundreds of great suggestions came in for the contest from all over the world. THANK-YOU ALL! Now the bad news is that the name chosen by my sweetheart was a very popular one, so she had a very hard time choosing one winner from the winning name she chose. But she did have a great way of choosing the best one and she blogged...

Wow is it Black Friday again already? You know initially we weren’t going to do anything for Black Friday. But then we thought, “Hey why not? What have we got to lose?” So here it is. We’re calling it The RugBadger.com  “FREE SHIPPING Plus MUCH More” Event!  Here’s The Deal… No matter what piece(s) of RugBadger Area Rug Cleaning Equipment you reserve before midnight Nov 25-2011 Held Over...

If you don’t have an active marketing plan that includes generating free publicity then you’re losing out on one of the most lucrative ways to generate new customers. Think about this: Which company would a potential client likely choose – one they randomly found on the internet or one they’ve seen because of (positive) media exposure? The answer, of course, is the one that got media exposure. People like having...

If it wasn’t for Steve Jobs and his innate ability to take a vision and turn it into reality, we certainly wouldn’t have some of the culture changing things we have today like The Apple computer which forever changed the public’s concept of what a computer is from a gigantic machine used only by big business to something an ordinary person can have on their desk The graphical user interface that PC owners call windows...

As you already know, Google has more or less replaced the Yellow Pages as the main resource people use to find local businesses. But what you may not know is just how IMPORTANT the mobile smartphone have become when it comes to how people search for a local business like yours Check out this video and discover what Google says about… Why your company website needs to be optimized for mobile phones The three things that smartphones...

YouTube is amazing. I mean where else can you… Get all of your videos hosted for free?  Educate potential clients about how you can solve their problems?  Show potential prospects video testimonials of your happiest clients?  Explain in creative ways your company’s USP (unique sales proposition)?  Have your videos drive traffic to your website? If you’re not using YouTube to do all of the above (and more) then...

I just received an email recently from someone who read one of the RugBadger ads I have in Cleanfax Magazine. It was a quite an interesting question about the concern he had about the RugBadger and all the dust he thinks it will create. Here is the unedited email he wrote: Honestly i read your add in cleanfax and something struck me as odd.. u said a customer drops a dust filled rug on the floor in the plant with a cloud of a choking...