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How Maintenance Jobs Can Make Your Business Profitable

Your customers care about energy efficiency. You care about increasing profits. So how can you earn more money and help your customers save energy? When you’re hired to work on your customers’ Exit Signs, ask if they want to upgrade to LED. It will save them money and earn you unexpected profit.

Electrical contractor Jeff Jones of Model Electric turned a routine maintenance task into a profitable job for his business. Several schools in Norfolk, Nebraska were replacing ceiling tiles in the school corridors and Jones was hired to remove the exit signs. After the new tiles were installed, Jones was supposed to put the old signs back up. But when he realized the old Exit Signs used inefficient 15-watt incandescent lamps, Jones suggested replacing them with LED Exit Signs.

“I showed the director of maintenance how much money he could save with LEDs,” explained Jones, “I compared the yearly energy usage of the 30-watt incandescent signs to the 2.6-watt LED signs, multiplied by 24 hours, 360 days per year and the kilowatt cost per hour. You don’t have to replace the lamps, so that adds to the savings, and they’re virtually maintenance-free.

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“The signs will last quite a long time. I convinced them LED was the right choice.” Jones ordered the LED Exit Signs and turned a simple maintenance task into a profitable replacement job. It was an easy way to grow his business.

In all, Jones installed more than 200 Exit Signs to schools in Norfolk, Nebraska. This included the Elementary, Junior and Senior High schools. He used Ruud’s brushed aluminum EXA Series and EXP Series white plastic Exit Signs.

Jones orders direct from Ruud to save his customers money. “We’ve purchased from Ruud a long time. The school district has Ruud lights throughout their buildings. I’ve been able to purchase from Ruud and save customers money. That’s good for all of us.”  

Whether your customer is remodeling or adding to an existing facility, you have an opportunity to suggest energy-saving improvements like LED Exit Sign replacements. You’ll be able to turn a simple maintenance job into a profitable replacement job. It is one of the easiest ways to grow your business and save money for your customers. Call Ruud Lighting to order Exit Signs for your next job (800) 236-7000.

If you have an interesting or unusual project where you've installed Ruud Lighting products to solve a problem, let us know at e-luminations@ruudlighting.com. We may feature it in an upcoming issue of E-luminations.