Our Town With Host Andy Ockershausen - Homegrown History

Joe Hadeed on how he kept his employees working during the slow months his first year as owner ~ ". . .the first January that came up, he kept telling me . . . we don't have any business at that time. We usually lay everybody off and I said I'm not gonna do that. So . . .I put on a suit and tie and went to Cameron Mills Road, one of the exclusive areas in Alexandria . . .and I started knocking on doors. I went door to door for the next three months. . . We stayed busy ever since. Everybody who opened the door gave me rugs and took me in their house and gave me coffee and showed me around." Joe Hadeed - Entrepreneur - Hadeed Carpet and Rug Andy Ockershausen: This Andy Ockershausen and this is, Our Town, the third season. We're so delighted. We tried to get this man in the first and second season - and didn't - to be a guest on our podcast, but he's a friend, an entrepreneur, a smart guy, who I admire for his involvement in the community, and his business sense. You've seen and heard him on countless radi