Virtual Servers Aids Cleaning Service Grow into Successful Franchise

How do you make virtual servers work for you to help your business grow? MaidPro CEO Mark Kushinsky knew that to grow a business you need to find a way to have the people who really know how to service your business not get bogged down in the daily tasks all businesses need to do. So he decided to take his tech background and grow his one-man office that supplied home cleaning services into a franchise that would support new branches with software to run scheduling, customer data and lead management. The only problem was the software didn’t exist so he had to create it himself. As his business grew to the current 120 locations nationwide, he adapted his business software to the emerging cloud technology by utilizing virtual servers to host his in-house software. In Information Week's SMB Technology section, they take a look at how this one person business used virtual servers and the new cloud technology to grow and made it the core strength that separates him from his competitors. Among other things the interview with Kushinsky looks at how he uses virtual servers to run a host of vital services such as:

• Training – Speeds up adaptation and gives consistency across offices
• Internal IT – Minimizes IT needs by centralizing it
• Management – Allows owners to manage services remotely
• Costs – Keeps fuel costs in check with virtual server based routing and scheduling

For a closer look at how these and other cloud server ideas were implemented to make a small business more competitive, and how other SMBs can learn from these ideas to make their own business more cloud-centric, be sure to follow our link to the story.

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