4.8.09 Hired: Congrats out to our 2 newest employees: Steve has 39
years experience and comes to us with dedication, attention to detail and
willingness to work. Bob Jr. is our newest office manager who helps us
with our spring/summer rush and takes new carpet samples to our
customers.
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3.7.08 Addition: We have fully integrated another call station to our
office in order to accommodate the upcoming spring time rush. We will
be adding a 5th phone line to help with the calls. A sales staff will be
added this year to help with on-site new carpet sales and estimates for
carpet repairs.
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3.5.08 Update: Sales data has been compiled for year to date (YTD). A
growth of +102% increase over last year has been logged, with
individual department sales increasing exponentially. More and more of
our corporate accounts are trying to cut costs due to this recession.
They realize it is more cost effective to repair the carpet instead of
replacing. Since we do both repairing OR replacing, our sales are
experiencing triple digit growth.
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3.1.08 Announcement: We welcome Lowe's Home Center to our family.
We will commence carpet installation effective immediately and on a
part-time basis. We currently install carpet for Home Depot and
Menards and local "mom & pop" stores.
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2.29.08 Leap Year day. Why? A calendar year is 365 days long. It
actually takes the earth 365 1/4 days to circle the sun. Since we're not
adding this extra 1/4 day in our regular calendar, we need to "make up"
this 1/4 day in order to accurately track the seasons, dates & time. This
1/4 day is added every 4 years (4 quarter days = 1 full day) to the month
of February making it 29 days instead of 28. If we didn't add this quarter
day, every 40 years we would be short 10 days OR every 120 years we
would be short 30 days; making our seasons, dates & times incorrect.
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2.4.08 Board members are all in favor of new pricing specials for new
carpet and padding. "...As of today, we are pleased to announce a new
pricing plan for our customers on new carpet and pad". In a unanimous
vote and for immediate release, a "Recession Special" will go into effect
on all new carpet & padding. This is to counter the effects of this
'recession' everyone is talking about. BUY 1 ROOM, GET ONE FREE
ON ALL CARPET & PAD. Free quote.
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12.15.07 Our 16th annual holiday party was a success, held at
Sullivan's Steak House in beautiful downtown Naperville. The employees
and their significant other's were all invited for a pleasant evening which
included live music, live seafood, delicious steak and of course their
favorite drinks. As a night cap, employees all voted on bowling at
Brunswick Bowling Alley in Naperville with drinks included. Thanks out to
all our employees for their wonderful effort this year and we look forward
to 2008.
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11.20.07 Congrats out to Bill M. of Naperville, he is our next 200th
repair customer. Every 200th customer receives 1 free room of brand
new carpet. Bill needed carpet stretching in 2 rooms and hallway. We
moved his furniture, power-stretched his carpet, re-cut & re-installed his
3 areas for him.
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11.16.07 Wait no longer! The new '08 Shaw samples have arrived! Call,
click or stop by for a peek.
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11.09.07 Another milestone reached as we hit our 10,000th carpet
repair customer! Congrats out to Sharon K. of Naperville, she receives
a coupon for a full refund on her carpet repair OR a credit on her next
new carpet purchase from us
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10.15.07 To help service the customers better, we've doubled our
showroom floor to make room for more carpet samples. It also enables
us to prepare for our Hardwood, Tile & Stone flooring samples which will
be on display soon.
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9.19.07 Some of the new '08 carpet samples are starting to arrive. The
newest 'eye opener' this new year is "MEGA-FRIEZE". Call now to make
an appointment so you can come feel how super-soft it is.
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9.12.07 We've expanded again! With business experiencing a 211%
increase over last year, we added a 4th truck to our fleet.
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9.10.07 Thanks out to all our repair customers who were patient enough
to wait for service on their carpet so we may catch up on all the flood
calls for New carpet & new padding. Our offices took over 1,100 phone
calls on all 4 lines for the 3 week period.
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9.1.07 With all the rain from the end of August, we experienced an
enormous rush of calls to replace carpet and/or pad for our business
and residential clients. Thanks out to everyone for their patience while
we finish up our flood calls.
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8.18.07 The onslaught of flood calls starts to trickle into our offices from
the rains which drenched our Chicago Land area for 1 week straight.
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7.13.07 A special welcome to our newest Senior Technician, Tim B. Tim
comes to us with 14 years experience, an excellent attitude and positive
spirit. A real 'go-getter' and problem solver.
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5.28.07 After a leave of absence, Robert M. has returned from
California to finish his apprenticeship to become a Senior Technician.
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5.13.07 A special welcome to our newest Junior Tech, Nicole W. She
comes to us with strong desire to work, eager to learn new techniques.
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4.2.07 We're expanding again! On Monday, we moved down the street
to our newest location (800 W 5TH AVE, NAPERVILLE IL). Special
thanks out to Mustang Inc., Linda, Mike, Jose & Ben for their help and
support.
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3.1.07 A special welcome to our newest Senior Technician, Bob Nolte.
Bob comes to us with 32 years experience, attention to detail and
willingness to work.
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2.5.07 We added NEW CARPET sales (wholesale) to our service line so
that we may better assist our builders, contractors, real estate agents
and our thousands of residential customers. If we can't fix the carpet, we
can at least replace it now.
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