If sales are slacking and you want to connect with more customers, here are two handfuls of marketing strategies for cleaning services who want to lead the pack. When a business relies on the conference room being spotless for that 7am meeting, and the toilet paper...
Sticky notes just won’t cut it any more! The tools of the cleaning industry of the past included feather dusters, bottles of polish, buckets and rag mops, and yellow notepads and sticky notes to try and keep track of tasks. Those days are long gone. Today,...
You’ve launched a cleaning business – Congratulations! By now, you’re aware that this venture is not for the faint of heart. The late nights, difficult customers and keeping up with the physical demands of the cleaning work itself; you have definitely stepped in it...
Once you’ve owned a cleaning company you’ll never see the world the same way again. Seven years after selling my company and getting out of the cleaning business, I still can’t stop critiquing other’s work, or the lack there of. Everywhere I...
“Peel one potato at a time.” That’s what my grandfather used to tell me. It’s some of the best advice I’ve ever received, or at least the advice I reference most often. As Grandpa used to tell the story, he signed up for the Navy at the...
I once had an employee who cleaned a large office building for me. She was a good employee; very reliable, trustworthy and thorough. Oddly though she consistently seemed to take far too long to complete the job. At first I overlooked it because the client was happy...
