Guys, take note of this one! One customer recently called MD inform to us of an incredible holiday gift idea he came up with for his wife’s Christmas present this year. And he is certain to score huge brownie points on this one!

Our customer decided that his wife no longer needed to struggle through the routine of vacuuming with the average central vac power brush. So he decided to give his wife an upgrade this Christmas, buying her the industry-acclaimed Stealth Kit, available only through MD Manufacturing.

But while this top-of-the-line power brush kit is sure to bring a huge smile to her face, making her cleaning experience much more convenient for years to come, the gift-giving will not stop there for this Christmas gift. Our charming romantic customer is going beyond this. This Christmas morning, when his wife opens the box holding the Stealth Kit, she will find another small box strategically placed inside of the Stealth box. Inside of this beautifully wrapped smaller box, carefully placed, will await something that will take her breath away. A matching diamond necklace and earrings set. And this Christmas our capable friend will have hit a home run, out of the park!

What other ways might you be planning to utilize a new product from MD Manufacturing to work for you this Christmas? Let us know your ideas and we promise to not give out the names of the brilliant romantics who buy their central vacuum units and accessories from MD Manufacturing.

Last week a central vacuum was used in a manner that should never be repeated. In Washington, D.C., a fire forced the German Embassy to evacuate its workers. The evacuation was prompted when spreading smoke was detected throughout the building.(You can read the entire AP article here).  

Apparently, the fire was caused when an Embassy worker used the building’s central vacuum system to suck up very hot embers from a fireplace. The AP described the cause this way: “The employee apparently had attached a cleaning tool to a wall inlet for the system and then let the powerful vacuum go to work on the embers.” Fortunately, the fire was contained within the central vacuum canister, thereby limiting the damage. MD General Manager Grant Olewiler stated, “Obviously it could not have been a plastic central vacuum unit as this would have done considerably more damage.” While the heavy-duty metal central vacuum unit, consistent with all of MD’s units, certainly prevented much more destruction, the moral of the story is: DO NOT SUCK UP HOT FIREPLACE EMBERS WITH YOUR CENTRAL VACUUM.

Looking for gift ideas for your loved ones this holiday season? Why not consider a brand new central vacuum for your own home. You know that you and your family only deserve the best when it comes to health and taking care of your home. So rather than buying a portable vacuum that will need to be replaced in a few short years, why not purchase a long-lasting, highly-effective central vacuum from MD Manufacturing. Nothing can beat the superior value of an MD product. To find out which vacuum will be the perfect fit for you and your family, please visit our web page. 

If you already own and enjoy the great advantages of a central vacuum from MD, you may want to consider having one installed in the home of a relative. This may be the best opportunity imaginable to get “in” with your mother-in-law. It is a gift that can hardly be surpassed. And it will continue to give for years to come.

If you own a central vacuum or know others who do also, and you still don’t know what to get them for Christmas, why not consider one of the many central vac accessory items sold by M.D. We have the perfect gift idea for you. On our 5,000+ page web site, we have conveniently listed the top-20 most popular items sold by M.D. Manufacturing. Any one of these items would make a wonderful holiday gift. Our gifts will range from anything that would be the perfect stocking stuffer (under $10) to something that could be the biggest gift under the tree! Please visit our web site for an extensive list of possible gift items that will make every central vac user’s holiday dreams come true.

If you are a business owner, then you know how difficult it is to know how to expand your business. It can feel like you are in a “Catch 22″ position here. You would love the expansion but cannot devote the manpower. Yet you don’t have enough work to keep someone busy full time so it’s hard to justify the cost involved because you would not have the profit! For issues like this you have to think long-term. 25 years from now, do you want to be doing what you are doing in the same way, or do you see yourself having time to pursue more meaningful things for your company?

This was made clear to me in a seminar where I was told to evaluate the dollars per hour that I could hire someone to do the jobs I was doing. I was doing shipping for about 1 hour per day ($7/hr), accounting work for about 2 hours per day ($14/hr), reactive sales for about 3 hours ($15/hr), and managing other people for 2 hours per day ($18/hr). Somewhere around 1 hour per day was all the time I had available to devote to thinking, creating and expanding my business. The value of that hour, however, was worth about $100/hr because as I set aside time to create, I could put in motion plans for others to work for me.

So I slowly hired people to do the things that were of a lower wage scale. A shipping clerk would earn $56/day. But if he freed me up for 1 hour per day, I would usually be ahead of the game by about $44. It is difficult to release the job that you do so well. But if you can find someone to do your job 80% as good as you do, hire that person and he/she will learn the other 20%. You just have to swallow your pride and let him/her do it. But make sure that you take and use that extra hour of your time (where you are now not shipping) and apply it to the most profit-generating function of your business.

What then do you do with that shipping clerk for the other 7 hours of the day? Have him clean the shop, make a phone call to follow-up on last month’s sales to see if the client is still fully satisfied with your products, have them stuff envelopes or any other task that might free up additional time for you.

As far as Home Shows, set a goal to be able to do one 2 years from now and develop a plan on how you will get to a point of being able to do one. I used to regularly generate 40-60 central vacuum sales from a single home show. As you expand your company through hiring, strategic planning and worker-development, there will scarce be any limit to what your company can do and become. And for years ahead, this can be one of the approaches to business for which you can be very thankful, especially as your company develops even further, allowing you to most effectively serve the people in your area.

Did you know that the MD Stealth Powerbrush is proven to be the most efficient powerbrush on the market? We’ve been asked why its amperage is only 1.4 Amps while other brushes are 2.4 to 2.9 Amps. The reason for this is remarkable. The Stealth is the only brush that employs a 24-bar commutator for transferring the electricity to a rotating armature of the motor. (The bars are the actual segmented copper bars that are located around the perimeter of the armature.)  Every other brush uses a 12-bar commutator. Yes, it comes with increased difficulty and cost to build a more precise motor with 24 bars but the end result is a motor twice as efficient in its usage of electricity. At the same time, this enhancement feature reduces the brush’s heat as well as reducing the electrical load put on the wire in the long central vacuum hose.

While many central vacuum hoses use a 22-gauge wire that might be 380 feet long, you can see how that would create a greater amount of electrical stress and loss of energy. (Have you even noticed how the wire on your Christmas lights gets really warm when you are 200 feet away?) And our AirForce hose is the only one that uses a heavier 18-gauge wire!

The end result of all of this is a far more efficient brush using less energy, producing less heat, and allowing less opportunity for problems. With this level of excellence in performance, I think we should apply for the government Energy Star Rating!