Articles by: Tom Stewart
Protecting Your Cleaning Business from a Recession
You don’t need to predict a recession to prepare for one. Here’s what the current economy means for your cleaning business — and why you should act now, either way.
How To Love Your Cleaning Business
As a house cleaning company owner, have you ever asked yourself the question, “Why do I do this?” I know we’ve all asked that question on a difficult day. On a good day, making money will be on the list […]
Leveraging the right technology and platforms for your brands
Virtually every aspect of your company is touched or driven by some innovation that didn’t exist 5 or 10 years ago. I describe below four areas where user-friendly apps can make a big difference in how smoothly your operation runs.
Managing the risks of the Hurricane Harvey clean-up
IICRC Master Technician Bruce Vance with useful tips for cleaning business owners in the aftermath of Harvey's destruction House cleaning businesses whose service areas have been impacted by hurricane Harvey will face many challenges in the days ahead. There are […]
Employee Life Cycle part 4 – The invitation to interview
The big secret to eliminating no-shows to interviews Okay, so now we have a list of people who have passed the first line of screening, the online form. Now we want to get them to an interview. At this point […]
Employee Life Cycle part 3 – Screening Applicants
Keep this stage of the recruiting process quick and easy for both the applicant and the employer.OK so you took my advice in the last two columns and you made it easy to apply, used all the strategies from the […]
The roots of ARCSI and the growth ahead
Proposed ISSA/ARCSI merger presents opportunity to expand its membership while maintaining its values. I’ve been in the house cleaning business for over 20 years. When I started there was no good way for owners of house cleaning businesses to network. […]
Events | Leadership | News
2 ways to raise your rates
Raising prices can seem like it will cost you clients, but it can be the secret to growing your business. Last week I wrote about why you need to raise your prices due to the shortage of labor. This generated […]
Raise your rates now!
It goes back to a fundamental rule of economics, the law of supply and demand. As we move into the busy fall season here, we are having to book clients two and three weeks out. Part of this is due […]
How to go paperless with your field technicians
6 decisions, 3 free apps, and 1 critical purchase that will save you money and make your transition to mobile devices smooth
