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Do Traditional Small Cleaning Businesses Face Extinction?
Do Traditional Small Cleaning Businesses Face Extinction?

Do Traditional Small Cleaning Businesses Face Extinction?

Very few business models are evergreen enough to stand the test of time…or the test of innovation and convenience. And the traditional “locally-owned and operated” cleaning company is facing that threat, but only if they fail to adapt and evolve.[EasyDNNnewsToken:Left Justify Embed 300 x 250] The last Blockbuster Video store has closed in my neighborhood, [...]

By Derek Christian|2014-01-22T23:32:07-05:00January 22nd, 2014|Leadership, News, Technology|

House Cleaning Marketplace Gains $38M for New Developments
House Cleaning Marketplace Gains $38M for New Developments

House Cleaning Marketplace Gains $38M for New Developments

Homejoy announces plans for growth with $38 million in new venture capital.With improving the customer experience a growing trend and one expected to dominate in 2014, San Francisco-based Homejoy, Inc. and its investors are expecting big things. In December, the Y Combinator graduate announced that it had added $38 million to its initial seed funding [...]

By CBT Editorial Staff|2014-01-17T20:52:06-05:00January 17th, 2014|News, Sales and Marketing, Start Your Cleaning Business, Technology|

iPhone Apps Make Great Client Relations Content
iPhone Apps Make Great Client Relations Content

iPhone Apps Make Great Client Relations Content

Appealing to their sense of independence with helpful content often shows clients the path to professional cleaning.The role of content marketing in the overall strategy often feels like a slippery slope: Offer advice that is too good, and you may lose clients who can get good cleaning information for free and do it themselves. Offer [...]

By CBT Editorial Staff|2014-01-15T17:28:19-05:00January 15th, 2014|Operations, Technology|

Tech Corner: Tapping into Your Staff's Mobile-ity
Tech Corner: Tapping into Your Staff's Mobile-ity

Tech Corner: Tapping into Your Staff's Mobile-ity

BYOD isn't just cheaper and easier than the alternative; it can also make for happier, more productive employees.BYOD - Bring Your Own Device - isn't just cheaper and easier than the alternative; it can also make for happier, more productive employees. It starts with a BYOD Policy; you'll want to be sure to address the [...]

By CBT Editorial Staff|2014-01-08T15:08:42-05:00January 8th, 2014|Technology|

12 Tech Trends Influencing Business Success
12 Tech Trends Influencing Business Success

12 Tech Trends Influencing Business Success

If you want to stay competitive, you must embrace the technologies that empower customers and staff to be efficient and effective in an increasingly "on demand" world.With the act of cleaning such an "old school" physical activity, seeing truly innovative technological additions in only the past couple of decades, it's easy for business owners to [...]

By CBT Editorial Staff|2013-12-16T18:53:08-05:00December 16th, 2013|Technology|

Trending for Cleaning Business Success in 2014
Trending for Cleaning Business Success in 2014

Trending for Cleaning Business Success in 2014

In an uncertain business environment, key business moves to improve your marketing in 2014Since cleaning businesses find success in areas with high concentrations of their target consumer, it should be no surprise that the “urban uprising” identified by Moen’s department of consumer and market insights is a good thing for the growth of the residential [...]

By CeCe Mikell|2013-12-09T13:57:28-05:00December 9th, 2013|Leadership, Sales and Marketing, Technology|

2013 Cleaning Convention Recap: Networking, Synergy, and Landmarks
2013 Cleaning Convention Recap: Networking, Synergy, and Landmarks

2013 Cleaning Convention Recap: Networking, Synergy, and Landmarks

What you gain attending the annual cleaning convention is priceless. Taken together with the four associations who gathered in Las Vegas in November, the industry trends, association initiatives and major awards were uniquely uniting for the cleaning industry.If ever there was proof that the cleaning industry is strong, large, and growing, the evidence could be [...]

By CeCe Mikell|2013-12-02T14:28:23-05:00December 2nd, 2013|Leadership, News, Technology|

KPI: 52 Week Moving Average
KPI: 52 Week Moving Average

KPI: 52 Week Moving Average

Tom Stewart goes deeper into measuring revenue with this Key Performance Indicator video about how to calculate revenue based on a 52-week moving average.Measuring your revenue can be misleading because of seasonal fluctuations. Previously I showed you how to use a 12-month moving average to show how you can get a clearer picture of how [...]

By Tom Stewart|2013-11-15T18:23:05-05:00November 15th, 2013|Finance, Measuring Success / KPIs, Technology|

Crunching the Numbers for the Cleaning Convention
Crunching the Numbers for the Cleaning Convention

Crunching the Numbers for the Cleaning Convention

Reduce the variables in your convention experience with the ISSA / INTERCLEAN Attendee Planning Formula. If you do it right, you can optimize the value of education, trade show “shopping” and industry networking.Take a word of advice from your peers who are frequent attendees to ISSA/INTERCLEAN® North America when they say: It’s bigger than you [...]

By ISSA|2013-11-01T20:37:48-05:00November 1st, 2013|Leadership, News, Technology|

An Insider’s Guide to the ISSA/INTERCLEAN Trade Show and Convention
An Insider’s Guide to the ISSA/INTERCLEAN Trade Show and Convention

An Insider’s Guide to the ISSA/INTERCLEAN Trade Show and Convention

Take it from a trade show veteran – as a vendor and a visitor – and plan carefully. Find out who I’m planning to see, how I’ll shop and what I’ll do before I ever get on the plane to Las Vegas.ISSA – the worldwide cleaning industry association has their annual trade show on November [...]