Mikey's Fest Greenville 2024 event ticket - GreenGlides - The Original Carpet Cleaning Glide

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Mikey’s Fest Greenville will be a 4 day event of a lifetime!
Camaraderie with your fellow cleaners, loads of education, inspiring stories and lectures and best of all, giving back to the Greenville community

Friday the 22nd will feature full day of cleaning and restoring carpet, vinyl, stone counters, leather and fabric furniture, on site rugs and tile and grout at the Greenville SC Ronald McDonald House, with the very best instructors in our industry!

Clean alongside our team of instructors at a relaxed and educational pace.

Eric Sprague and Larry Wilburton – SuperTech University

Bryan Thomson– Stone care and restoration

Jim Pemberton– Fabric care

Mike Pailliotet– Vinyl and Tile and Grout cleaning and repair

Pamela Villagomez– Leather care and repair

Melody David @ Americolor– Color and Bleach Repair

The Trinity OP Systems team– Carpet cleaning

Carpet Cleaner America– Low moisture @ all flooring surfaces

Sammy Sales/Steam Action– Carpet cleaning

Joey Picket- Carpet cleaning

Thomas Cermak – Cleaning and repair

Tim Yeater-Grey Matter/ElDiablo

IICRC- various reps and instructors

Followed by two days of speakers and presentations as only Mikey’s Fest can bring it to you, in a friendly and very informative, family like get-together feeling. MC’d by Chris Meutteries

Join us on Monday for a personal tour of the nearby Glen Raven fabric manufacturing facility, where anyone who deals with textiles for a living, will be amazed! Read about their rich history HERE.

We’ll spend Monday afternoon strolling along the Falls Park on the Reedy River in downtown Greenville where you’ll be convinced you’ve been transported to the garden of Eden. Spring will have sprung and all your senses are in for a real treat!

Our presentation venue and hotel will be the Springhill Suites located in the heart of the amazing downtown Greenville

2024 Greenville Mikey’s Fest schedule (tentative, many changes and additions to come)

Friday March 22nd

8AM: Meet at Ronald Mcdonald House to check in/register for the event.

706 Grove Rd, Greenville, SC 29605

We’ll clean the local “RMH” in the ultimate win-win-win situation. Money spent on cleaning can go towards supporting the families in other ways, young and new cleaners get to clean alongside industry veterans, learning new tricks of the trade and us old guys get the joy and satisfaction of giving back to the Greenville community and our industry all in one. A total blast from start to finish!

Badges and T-shirts distributed.

Group dinner sign ups.

Walk the house and discuss issues with floors and furnishings.

9AM: Cleaning Teams created

Jim Pemberton- Upholstery cleaning

Thomas Cermak- Carpet repair, stains and other issues

Joey Pickett-

Pamela Villagomez- Leather care and repair

Melody David – Color and Bleach Repair

Bryan Thomson- Countertop restoration

Reg Rogers/Dane Gregory- CRB/Low Moisture cleaning

TOPS- OP/vlm of various flooring and rugs

Sammy Sales- HWE of Carpet and Tile and Grout.

10:30 Rotate teams

12PM- Lunch on site

1PM: Continue cleaning w/ team rotation

2:30: Team rotation

3:30 Team rotation

5PM- Recap and walking review of the day’s events

7PM- Group dinners

Group dinner leaders:

Melody David -Color repair options

Dane Gregory- Choices in commercial floor care

Eric Sprague- Employee management

Mark Saiger-

Katie Pettyjohn- The realities of owning a rug shop.

More to come…

Saturday March 23rd

Breakfast on your own

9AM- Introduction with Mike Pailliotet and Chris Muetteries and Victoria Heaberlin

New Fest attendee introductions

Vendors on display

10:30AM Speaker- Chris Muetteries gets our day started with inspiration from the heart and above. Chris was a huge part of the immense success of our last event so we just had to have him back. He recently sold his 20 year plus cleaning business to his son to become the pastor of his small town church

11:15 Speaker Jim Pemberton- Your customer’s pets will make or break your cleaning business. Jim is the world’s leading authority on fine fabric care and along with his father Lee, the two have been running Pemberton’s Cleaning Supply in Pennsylvania for many decades. Lee Pemberton is a founding shareholder for the IICRC and a legendary instructor and trend setter as well.

12:PM Lunch on your own @ downtown

1:15 PM Speaker- Eric Sprague of Super Tech University, sit up front and don’t miss a word of wisdom!

2PM Round Table- Johnny Johnson, Adam Hale, Mike Pailliotet, TJ & Jaycie Lucie & more-Diversifying your income for Carpet Cleaners

3PM to 5PM Breakout sessions with instructors and vendors

Thomas Cermak Lifelong cleaner and super passionate IICRC instructor

Bryan Thomson Former employee of TurboForce, US Products, Legend Brands as well as his own stone restoration company, and owner of Stone Edge Training schools.

Jim Pemberton A fine gentleman and a fine fabric guru to the nth degree, https://www.ecleanadvisor.com/public/main.cfm

SteamAction Sammy Sales and family, cleaners and inventors, https://steamaction.com/

IICRC Many representatives will be in The House, www.iicrc.org

Joey Pickett Lifelong cleaner and IICRC instructor, https://www.joeyscarpetcare.com/

Pamela Villagomez Leather care and repair expert and IICRC instructor. https://www.damagedleathersolutions.com/about

Melody David The Queen of carpet dyeing, https://americolordyes.com

Dane Gregory Lifelong cleaner, Instructor, former IICRC president, current rep for Carpet Cleaner America, https://carpetcleaner-usa.com/

Teri Brown Financial advisor and retirement expert, https://advisor.morganstanley.com/terri.brown

Eric Sprague and Larry Wilburton They’ve been there and done that and are the leading experts and helping service companies grow and learn from their mistakes and successes. Check them out @ https://morningtechmeeting.com/

MUCH more to come!

Sunday March 24th

Breakfast on your own

9AM Chris Jones, what a life story to tell! A 40 year veteran of the cleaning industry who naturally warms up to everyone in his life, especially his clients. https://www.classic-carpetcleaning.com/

10:45 Robert Pettyjon and Mike Pailliotet discuss the current state of the industry.

Robert owns Pettyjohn’s Rug Cleaning Raleigh along with his Daughter and Son in Law who will also be in attendance. Robert’s southern charm and unique sense of humor pushes Mike to places he usually isn’t prepared to go, so tighten your seatbelt, it will be a wild ride!

12:PM Lunch on your own downtown

1:15 PM Speakers- Nick and Abby Trock, this young couple have a great life story and their approach to cleaning carpet together on the truck is inspiring and heartwarming. http://bluefalconclean.com/about-us

2PM Speaker- Adam Hale, lifelong cleaner, former employee of Blueline truckmounts, IICRC instructor and heralded speaker at many, many Mikey’s Fest who never disappoints. https://carpet911.biz/about/

2:30PM Speaker

3PM to 5PM Breakout sessions with instructors and vendors

Thomas Cermak Lifelong cleaner and super passionate IICRC instructor, https://carpetrepairmaster.com/locations-2/