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What You Need To Know To Be Successful

Are you looking for a satisfying, lucrative job in an evergreen market? A market that stays strong, regardless of the economy? Perhaps you're looking to add a service to your existing asphalt business, maintenance business, or home care business.

Asphalt maintenance is an excellent career opportunity for anyone who wants to be their own boss, enjoys working with their hands outside, and isn’t afraid of hard work. Success in this exciting business, however, requires entrepreneurship and the ability to strategize ways of expanding and maximizing your services.

Improving efficiencies is a critical component of operating a successful asphalt sealcoating business. Correcting errors, repairing broken equipment and performing duplicate tasks expends time, money and resources better applied servicing customers and making more sales. Utilizing the best sealcoating supplies and equipment on the market can reduce waste, maximize productivity and boost your bottom line.

The asphalt maintenance business is a profitable one. With scores of property owners in your area looking to repair their asphalt surfaces at any time, there’s no shortage of potential business out there. Turning those strangers into customers can be a breeze when you know how to sell and have the right supplies and equipment to get the job done right, but finding those leads to nurture into customers can be tricky.

When you first started out in the asphalt business, you probably were fine just using the smaller drums and totes for your sealers.   You had time (and the patience!) to drive to sealer plants, transfer, fill, clean, and maintain the containers.  However, as we all know, the fastest path to success is to leverage efficiency.  If you want your business to grow, you will need to make sure that the equipment that you are using is growing along with it. You are not going to have an easy time covering the parking lot of a sports center or a shopping mall if you only have small drums.

Do you want to become your own boss? Parking lot striping can be a fantastic option for many out there.

Whether you want to start or grow line striping business part time or full-time work,  there's always going to be a need to keep parking lot lines fresh and crisp.  And when you are your own boss, you can choose your own hours. It has the potential to be a very profitable business, and it is not too difficult to start. However, it's not as simple as buying a little bit of equipment and starting. You want to know how to start a striping business the right way.

Sealcoating Business Marketing

If you have an asphalt sealcoating business, you can make even more money through a simple little service offering. Let's face it: you're already going to driveways and parking lots and you're already doing the crack filling and the seal coating.

I had the great pleasure to speak not once, but twice, this week at the University Of Utah’s MBA class about how I started building my own business. Not only was it exciting to share with a room of students that being your own boss gives you the best job security in tough economic times, but it was also very exciting to see that the entrepreneurial spirit is very much alive and well in the West!

We admit it. . . we spend a lot of time thinking about asphalt here at Asphalt Kingdom! So when we read the recent UN report on asphalt, we found ourselves surprised by a few factoids, and figured we'd better get right to making up a picture or two to share the information with you.

Asphalt is produced by refining crude oil through a process known as fractional distillation. The resulting asphalt is then used for various applications in the construction and manufacturing industries.

Several countries around the world produce asphalt, and their production capacity varies depending on their access to crude oil, technological advancements, and the demand for the product. Here, we will discuss the top asphalt-producing countries in the world.