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IRS releases drafts of new required paperworkThe IRS has released drafts of four forms that employers will use to report compliance with Affordable Care Act mandates. Preview them.
Join more than 16,000 cleaning industry professionals, all determined to improve the industry as well as their individual businesses.“I love to see all the big things and the small things that come to market that make things easier or allow us to work faster,” says Ed Selkow, president of Janitorial Growth Solutions and an ISSA/INTERCLEAN [...]
If you're worried about price and discount shoppers, make sure you're not doing one these tricks they know to check for.Major retailers have been applying these pricing hacks for decades, and price shoppers - and especially discount shoppers - know how to spot them. Charm Pricing = listing the price as 1-5 cents low to [...]
Homejoy cites recruiting "the most dedicated, verified Cleaning Professionals in your area" and improvements in the customer experience as the primary reasons for the rate increase.In an email this week, Y Combinator start-up Homejoy notified customers that as of September 1, 2014, their hourly rates for service will increase: What are the new rates? $25 [...]
Technology is a catalyst for change and is changing the competitive landscape in the house cleaning industry.Once an engineer, always an engineer. Numbers, systems, efficiency, and synergy are part of my DNA. In my pre-cleaning business days, I made my living figuring out how to better use tools and technology to improve production, reduce costs, [...]
Don’t match your business up to the solution; build the technology to match your business model.While growing a cleaning business is a fun and exciting ride, it’s also extremely complicated and frustrating at times. As the clientele of Student Maids grew over the past five years, so did the number of new challenges. Scheduling became [...]
You can’t grow a business on shoe box accounting.If you are like me, you probably started out in your business doing “shoe box” accounting. Some of you may still be doing it. That is where you put all your receipts, invoices and checks into a “shoe box” and take it to someone to “straighten it [...]
Janitors and maids are the third largest occupation in the US. Are you paying enough compared to national averages?According to the 2013 US Occupational Employment Statistics Survey, 2.5% of the total number of employed in the US are cleaning someone’s home, office or commercial space. And that makes janitors, maids and housekeeping staff the third [...]
Join the ranks of Excel power users with these 11 tips!Business owners know that they've got to track so much data to really know what's going on their business, but often don't know how to manage that data in a useful and efficient way. Here are some ways Excel is making it easier for newbies [...]
Zappos and Amazon offer new hires $2K - $5K to quit - part of a hire slow, fire fast policy that saves money.Out of more than 6,000 hiring professionals worldwide, more than half said they have felt the effects of hiring someone who turned out to be a poor fit for the job or who [...]
