Expand Your Parking Lot Maintenance Services & Become More Valuable
As a Parking Lot Maintenance contractor or property manager you may be focusing on only one or two core services. However, in order to continue growing your business, it’s important to consider adding new services to your offerings. Doing so will help strengthen your value proposition, and relationships with your clients. Here is a list of services that you may not be offering, that you can easily implement to make more money, and better serve your customers. We will explore services that can be added to each type of company.
Additional Revenue Opportunities For Asphalt Maintenance Companies
i) Line Painting Services
If you are an asphalt maintenance contractor, or concrete company, adding line painting is a natural service to add. You are already onsite repairing and maintaining the surfaces, that may already be painted, and part of the repair could be covering up existing paint. This would be a very easy upsell to repaint the lot while you are onsite. Not only would this make you more valuable and give you a leg up on your competition, but you will also generate more revenue per job.
Additional Revenue Opportunities For Line Painting Companies
i) Crack Filling
ii) Pothole Repair
iii) Seal Coating
iv) Parking Lot Sign & Rubber Curb installation
If you are a line painting contractor, and have not considered adding on Asphalt repair is a core service that many companies offer. However, there are many different types of asphalt repair services that can be added to your existing offerings. Crack sealing, pothole repair, and full-depth reclamation are just a few examples of the various types of asphalt repair services that can be added.
Crack sealing is very easy to learn, and is a super easy upsell when onsite painting jobs. If cracks are left unchecked they can split further and allow more water to seep below and wash out the base turning to more potholes. The cost to fill cracks as part of regular maintenance is inexpensive for your customer, and the benefits are huge. So it’s win, win. You get to increase your bill by providing more value for your customers. Here is quick step by step guide on how to fill cracks using a crack filling machine.
Asphalt patching is a great service to add to your business. I’m sure a good percentage of the jobs you arrive at have potholes. Just think about how easy it would be when you arrive onsite to or are doing a pre-job assessment to add this service to your estimate. Smaller scale asphalt patching is also also very simple to learn, and does not require a lot of equipment to get started. Check out our guide here on how to fill potholes.
Another valuable add on service for line painting contractors to offer their customers is seal coating. There is a little more to seal coating than crack filling, but overall the process is relatively simple to learn, and can generate some big profits for your business. Seal coating is a fantastic way to upsell your client, and you can feel good about offering it too, because ultimately it will lengthen the life of their parking lot which is much less expensive in the long run compared to re-paving. Not to mention the down time and inconveniences that come with that.
Lastly the easiest service to add to your offerings is sign, and curb repair and installation. How often have you gone to a job and noticed that there is curbs broken or moved out of place? Or you arrive onsite and you see signs that have been damaged, and are knocked over? You are already there doing a job for your client, and have already established some sort of rapport with them. Calling them and asking if you can fix the broken sign, or replace the broken parking curbs only takes a minute or two, your customer will be happy you brought it to their attention, and they don’t have to shop around for a sign repair company. This is the easiest way to increase the value of your service, and your bill.
Roadly stocks all you need to start offering more, and making more in your business. From Crack fill equipment to signs, and rubber curbs we have you covered.
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