I agree with both of y'all on all accounts. My first Softwashapalooza was awesome, it was disappointing for it to end so quickly and to be back on that plane headed home. I really enjoyed spending time meeting everyone. There were so many powerful stories behind so many of the men and women in that room. Very inspiring. Also really cool to hear the similarities and differences between companies in total different parts of the country. What works....what doesn't work...employee ups and employee downs. I know that we picked up a ton of new ideas that will certainly help our team this year. Can't wait to get to work implementing some of those ideas.

Thanks to everyone with the SWS team that spent weeks and months working to put together another great event. Spotless Softwash appreciates everything all of you have done for us.

Finally, I'm sure I speak for a bunch of the newer Certified/Authorized companies, special thanks go out to John, Brandon, Bob, and Pat. It really takes special people to stand up in front of a room of strangers/acquaintances and disclose as much information about your personal lives and businesses as y'all do. I talked to numerous people over the week that said they had picked up great information from listening to y'all, whether it was from the presentations you did or simply hanging out chatting in the lobby.

Good luck to everyone in 2016!

As said already, just an awesome event! I am impressed with the continuing growth of the SWS Community, and the growing trend of long term commitment to the program. Wonderful seeing new faces and the return of so many that I met three years ago at my first event.

I thought the talks on the different themes; Performance, Professionalism, Integrity, Community, Stewardship, and Partnerships, were especially worthwhile. No doubt there was a tremendous amount of planning and time invested toward the hugely successful outcome of this year's convention.

I would like to add my thanks to AC, Chris, Whitney, Jackie, Scout and Dave for putting so much positive energy into this event! And Karen is a fabulous host, always making sure everyone has what they need.

Kudos to SWS! Now let's all go out and put what we learned into action!

I really enjoyed Dave Welday's presentation. It helps reinforce some of the messaging. I found that as a cleaning season progresses along that I slip back to features and benefits of the product and service and less on the end result of the pleasure island. Ed's talk on pricing also helped. Jon sat through all of the different presentations from Reach Local. Brian gave different info at each session and that was beneficial.

I wanted to say this was a great event as well. Coming in knowing nothing and very worried about trying something new to coming out feeling confident that the help I need is there! I felt a huge transformation in knowledge base. Thanks to all the guys and Gals who were so willing to share their insights with me, I really feel like part of a family! It is going to be a great 2016 and I look forward to 2017!