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 [...]
Joanna Saucier Puts Her Name on the Line – A Model Business and a Person of Distinction!
By David Kiser Joanna Saucier and Rachel Fedora taking over Manitoba! When you put your name on the line everyday, it means something. It certainly seems that way for Joanna Saucier (pronounced SōCā) Palumbo and her company Signature Cleaning Services. Since 1999, Joanna and her team have built Signature Cleaning Services into [...]
5 Helpful Online Marketing Tips for Cleaning Business Owners
There are nearly 9,000 cleaning companies in the United States. If you are the owner of one of these cleaning companies, finding a way to create a competitive edge(i.e. marketing) is crucial. Creating an online presence for your business is imperative when trying to appeal to modern consumers. The first step in building an [...]
Drug Testing and Insurance
Why drug test? Substance abuse takes a heavy toll on businesses, costing employers over 10 billion dollars each year. How big is the problem? There are 21 million illicit drug users in the US. Chances are we all have been personally affected by alcohol and drug abuse in some way. According to data from [...]
Can your home be too clean?
NO, it can’t. Why? The definition of “clean” as it relates to your home is “the absence of unwanted matter”1. If there is a desirable benefit to dirt or soil, then it is not “unwanted”. “Unwanted matter” is empty pizza boxes, soda cans and bottles. You get the idea. There is no sound argument [...]
Running a Business? Take your own advice.
You go to all the conferences and are in all the right social groups. But have you forgotten how to take advice…?
The Problem with Indoor Air Quality
When we think about the amount of contaminants inside a home it is little wonder that asthma and allergies are on the rise. There is regular, tracked-in dirt. But there are also microscopic contaminants that make their way indoors on the bottom of our shoes as residues and particulates too small to see with the naked eye. While cleaning businesses can't stop these unwanted guests from entering, we can add value to families that need help keeping this problem contained.
Green Cleaning Survey Results
60% of participants regularly clean green, as opposed to 27% who clean green by request and 13% that do not offer green cleaning. Although the sample size was small, most findings support previous survey results.
The Green Cleaning Issue – Prologue
Although green cleaning has been around since the 1970’s it is still not a mainstream concept, broadly speaking. While there are certain US markets where environmentalism is woven into the ethos of the community they are still in the minority. Even the eco-minded don’t necessarily view their cleaning products as having a real impact [...]