Image via Wikipedia Controlling parking space is essential to ensure a consistent throughput of traffic to your business location.  Contrary to popular belief, providing free parking does not increase customer walk-in traffic and in fact, more usually decreases walk-ins because of non-availability of parking space – your largest area is typically utilized by people by [...]

Offering customer parking facilities has long been viewed as essential for attracting customers to your business, and especially for retail outlets.  Offering free parking is not the end of the story however, because “free” parking comes with a cost to your business and if you are not controlling who is using this service, and especially [...]

Image via Wikipedia A number of hospitals have made the news recently, not for medical advances in delivering care to patients, but rather because of how they have been dealing with parking issues and problems.  Hospitals quickly generate parking problems wherever they are located because of the density of car users converging on them – [...]

Image via Wikipedia Hoboken is a New Jersey city which butts up against Manhattan – it occupies only one square mile, but every year, more than one million motorists use Hoboken to park their cars in – a huge headache for the city and for parking enforcement.  Using traditional parking enforcement techniques such as paper [...]

Humble parking permits rarely make the news but you may be surprised at how politically charged the issue of parking and the prospective regulation of where you can park your car on a weekday or weekend becomes. Albany in upstate New York is a great example of how parking laws which may seem so simple [...]

Sourcing parking hang tags for your merchandising needs has never been easier with the internet making supplier choice so much easier.  This said there are drawbacks and you need to be clear on what you are looking for in a supply partner. Many suppliers operating on the internet offer great deals and discounts and you [...]

There’s no one more excited on the job than a new employee. Starting a new job is both a wonderful and a nerve-wracking time. As an employer it is critical you start each new employee with a new parking permit for safety, security and overall peace of mind. Some companies don’t like parking permits. They [...]

Controlling your parking, issuing parking permits  and making sure only authorized staff and users take advantage of your facilities is one of those aspects of running a business which can give you a major headache, but really, is a minor issue which shouldn’t be dominating your time.   Unfortunately, human nature being what it is, you [...]

Many companies don’t think very much about parking permits. Not one bit. Why should they? Parking permits are something you give out to a new employee as they go through their employee orientation. Some companies update parking passes. But we’d like to suggest you consider thinking much more of the parking pass than it being [...]

I’ve started a new job and they made me get a parking permit. A parking permit? How official! I guess every company has its own procedures. My Human Resources Manager asked me to keep note of my feelings about having a parking permit over the next two weeks and to report back. So I’ll share [...]