Soap Warehouse Blog

This Saturday, August 23, 2014, Soap Warehouse, along with the North American Pressure Wash Outlet of Gainesville, GA, will be hosting a free UAMCC event.

It will be held in the meeting room of the Olde Town Tavern in Lawrenceville, GA at 835 Lawrenceville-Suwanee Road. This event will have classes running from 10:30 until 5:00 and will include lunch. 

To start the day attendees can go up the street to Panara Bread to grab breakfast and do some Networking and just before the venue opens we will be having an outside wash demo done on the Olde Town Tavern building starting at 9:15.

The venue opens at 10:00 am to check in, get badges and get up to the meeting area. Welcome will start at 10:15 with the first speaker scheduled to start at 10:30. Most talks will run from 30-40 minutes and will cover a wide range of topics: incorporation and taxes, customer retention, cold calling, chemical safety, how to set up OSHA training, pumps and more. 

During lunch the tables will be set up with talking topics to coincide with the speakers to enhance and expand on the information being presented.

At the end of the day there will be a drawing for some items donated by the sponsors as a thank you to the attendees for coming.

If you have not registered yet there is still time, spaces are limited but some are still available, so act fast.

I hope to see many of you there and am looking forward to this intimate learning experience that the UAMCC is bringing to our area. You must have a ticket number to register but the tickets are free, you can contact me 1-800-762-7911 to get yours.

We just finished the PWRA/WCRA convention in Nashville, TN August 8and 9th held at the Gaylord Opryland Resort.

We had a great turn out at our booth. There were over 300 attendees and 30 vendors that exhibited. 

We sold sample size quarts of many of our favorite exterior products and had a drawing for two $100 product gift cards and one, 60 second professional video, valued at $695.00.

The winners of the gifts cards were: Joe Hiryak of Fayettevile Window Washing from Fayetteville Arkansas and Mike Willard of Dirt Zero from Nixa, MO.

The lucky winner of the free business video was Peggy and Terry Miller of Tegrey Family of Coatings from Canton, OH.

The resort is beautiful and attendees loved the venue. This show will be moving next year to the Washington D.C. area but at this time we are not planing to attend. We will move on to another show and closer to home but know it will again be a quality event, so if you can, make plans to attend.

This is the season for cleaning industry trade shows. This past week Soap Warehouse was a sponsor of another of the UAMCC's events. This one was the big National East event that was held Aug 1&2 in Orlando, Florida.

Even though we could not be there we are a sponsor and we did send two $100 product gift cards that were given away to two local Florida Companies.

The first went to Patrick Anthony of "A Tampa Bay Pressure Washing" from Valrico, FL.

and the second went to David D'Eramo of "CentraFlo" from Winter Springs, FL.

This coming weekend we will be in Nashville for the PWRA National Convention and then we are right back home to do our own event for the UAMCC for Atlanta, here in Lawrenceville, on Saturday Aug 23rd. We have a great line up in store for the companies that attend.

We will have a CPA to discuss how you should set up your business for taxes, we will have speakers to talk about customer retention, chemical safety, how to trouble shoot pumps, how to set up OSHA training, Social Media, plus more and a quick building wash demo to start the day off at 9:00 prior to the classes starting at 10:00.

Remember as a UAMCC paying member you get to attend one free event each year and anyone can attend their first UAMCC event free with a VIP Pass even if you are not a member yet.

If you missed the event in Orlando and can get to Atlanta for the day in a few weeks be sure to call us for your Free VIP pass. Once you have the pass with your ticket number you just go to the event web page www.uamccevents.com and use it to register for the event that you want to attend. I hope to see you soon.