Owen
Selling equipment competitively and profitably while giving good service is harder than you might think.
Once you start selling equipment you'll then get drawn in to selling consumables, and then providing servicing and then training. It's just not the sort of thing you can easily add on to an existing carpet cleaning business.
National chains, generally, will not buy from small local dealers. They screw down the big national dealers to the point where they're not actually as good customers as you might think!
If I were you, I'd concentrate on selling more services to your exisiting customers. Are you making the most out of selling protectors, for example? Have you thought about window cleaning or patio cleaning? These are the sort of things that are likely to give you a reasonably quick boost if you're not as busy as you'd like to be!
Regards
Mike