Business Strategy
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.
Rate Increase Per Year: The Cleaning KPI With the Most Profit Leverage
Your annual rate increase is the cleaning KPI with the most profit leverage. See why 1% on price can mean 10% on profit — and how to raise rates without losing clients.
Quotes Per Week: The Core KPI That Tells You If Your Cleaning Business Is Growing
Quotes per week is the cleaning KPI that signals real growth. Learn how to calculate it, hit the 19-per-week benchmark, and quote more accurately to win.
Bill Rate Per Cleaning: How a 1% Price Increase Becomes 10% More Profit
Your bill rate per cleaning is the most direct lever on profit. Learn how to calculate it, why small price increases compound, and proven ways to raise it.
ISSA Show Sneak Peek: Boundaries for Business Owners
As a small business owner, especially as a solopreneur or an owner/operator, it is easy to feel pressure to be on 24/7. On the phone, on social media, chatting it up at Chamber events, on top of every facet of […]
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.
Derek Christian and Alonzo Adams on becoming a better CEO
Time is running out to register for the 2018 ISSA Leadership Summit Becoming a Better CEO On April 19-21, 2018, ARCSI will host the 2018 ISSA Leadership Summit in Tucson, AZ. The event will feature three high-level business leaders, including […]
Marcus Sheridan to speak at 2018 ISSA Leadership Summit
Ghostwriter, speaker, LinkedIn Influencer, contributing editor to Inc., and the author of The Motivation Myth to shake things up in Tuscon this April In 2001 and fresh out of college, Marcus Sheridan stumbled across his first business with two friends […]
Permission to Screw Up – by Kristen Hadeed
Founder and CEO of Student Maid releases ground-breaking book; read an excerpt here on CBT. When Kristen Hadeed posted an ad on Craigslist offering to clean houses her junior year of college, conveniently for the same price as a pair […]





















