Eco cleaning has taken the cleaning world by storm over the past 10 years. While awareness has increased through blogging and social sharing, eco cleaning has actually been around for a long time. While we may tend to think of natural products as something that’s new and maybe even a little bit hippie, our grandparents [...]
Learn How One Cleaning Business Owner Sold Tens of Thousands of Dollars of Holiday Gift Cards
Matt Ricketts of Better Life Maids sells $30,000 and more in gift cards every Christmas season. In this webinar he explains how he does it.
Your opinion counts!
CALLING ALL CLEANING BUSINESS OWNERS: Take the HCT2020 Survey! Take the Survey Smart cleaning business owners accept that a solid training program for cleaning technicians is a core element of success in our industry. And they tend to agree that systems and techniques founded on best practices, as deemed by industry experts, are [...]
ISSA Show Floor Preview
The ISSA show is coming starting November 18th in Las Vegas. We have covered all of the great education at the ISSA show in previous articles but another reason to go to the show is the huge trade show floor with hundreds of vendors providing nearly everything you can imagine for your cleaning company. In [...]
The Digital Consumer: How Residential Cleaners Can Reach Them
Marcus is a highly sought-after international keynote speaker known for his unique ability to excite, engage, and motivate audiences. In 2017, Forbes named Marcus one of 20 “Speakers You Don’t Want to Miss.” He has been dubbed a “Web Marketing Guru” by the New York Times and featured in Inc., The Globe and Mail, [...]
I fired 13 cleaners at once, and why I am glad I did
By most people’s measure, I run a successful cleaning business, All Star Cleaning Services. In a service area with a 250k population we do right around 2.5 million in revenue, with 750 recurring customers and 45 employees. Just because I have found success doesn’t mean I don’t fail though – often and sometimes spectacularly! [...]
How to Hire and Retain Great Part-Time Workers
Hard-working frontline employees, many of them part-timers, can make or break companies in the service industry. Franchises like those in the building services contracting industry report that it is tough to find great part-time workers and even tougher to keep them. Industry statistics are telling: The building services contracting (BSC) industry averages a turnover rate [...]
5 Tools in the ProTeam Residential Service Kit and How to Use Them
Designed for the commercial user cleaning residential areas, the ProTeam® Residential Cleaning Service Tool Kit has five tools to meet many cleaning challenges. Here, we’ll take a look at the five tools in the kit and how to use them to your greatest advantage. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8f6Bt8fBGtg Dust Brush Remove dust from blinds, lampshades and [...]
3 Critical Hardwood Floor Maintenance Tips Your Cleaning Clients Should Know
3 Tips to make sure your client's hardwood floors stay in great shape.
The important of the Nose to our health and how we as cleaners can help
By David Kiser It’s dark. It’s wet. It produces mucous. It captures dust and foreign matter. It’s your nose and sinuses. The nose and sinuses are part of your respiratory system. What is the purpose of your nose and sinuses? No one knows about the nose. Some experts think the sinuses might help [...]