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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.

Core KPI February 2025

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.

Core KPI January 2025

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.

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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 […]

Part 1: Green Cleaning – It’s Your Business

Anyone can say they clean green. But what does that mean? Many shades of green exist within the spectrum of green cleaning. How green is green? The varied scenarios include businesses that mix their own natural cleaning products (with or […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Janitorial workers graduate from English classes taught at Google offices

Classes are part of a program set up for Spanish-speaking cleaning workers. San Mateo, CA - Fifty-two cleaning workers, all employees of Brilliant General Maintenance Company of San Jose, California, have recently graduated from English classes conducted by Google staff […]

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Registration is open for 2017 ISSA/INTERCLEAN North America

Attendees of the 2017 event will have even more options to customize their experience Northbrook, IL, USA―May 12, 2017― Registration is officially open for ISSA/INTERCLEAN® North America and ISSA Convention, September 11-14, 2017, Las Vegas, NV, USA. This is the […]

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