Start Your Cleaning Business

Being a house cleaner and starting a cleaning company are two very different things: one is a job, and one is calling. Learn more about what’s involved in starting (and growing) a house cleaning company.

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“What Industry Are You In?” — How Home Cleaning Owners Should Answer That Dropdown

Picking an industry label for your home cleaning business affects licensing, taxes, and insurance. Here’s what each category means and how to choose right.

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ISSA Show North America 2026 Registration Now Open: Essential Event for Residential Cleaning Professionals

Las Vegas Event Offers Targeted Education, Industry Connections, and Growth Strategies for Residential Service Providers

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Registration is Now Open for ISSA Show North America 2026

The cleaning industry’s premier event has been confirmed for November 16-19 in Las Vegas, and registration is now open.

Jobber announces a grant to help small service businesses

Jobber, the leading provider of home service management software, today unveiled Boost by Jobber, a grant program to further support the hard-working entrepreneurs within the home services sector. Aspiring entrepreneurs, new business owners, and longtime home service entrepreneurs are invited […]

How To Start A Cleaning Business

If 2020 has taught us anything, it's to be prepared to start over or try something new. With many industries downsizing due to extensive economic pressure during the global pandemic, it’s right to step out and start determining your salary. […]

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 […]

Part 2: Green Cleaning – Educating Customers

The authenticity of your green cleaning program depends on two things – the completeness of your green protocol and how you talk about it. The former is addressed in Part 4. This article details decisions related to your public messaging […]

Part 3: Green Cleaning – Engaging Employees

Probably every residential cleaning service has a few cleaning technicians that are packing “heat” – in this case contraband super-cleaners like bleach – beneath the passenger seat, just for special occasions. So it stands to follow that changing up your […]

Part 4 – Green Cleaning Service Delivery

At the heart of the decisions about your green cleaning protocols is really who you want to be as a company (see Part 1). “For me, the criteria had to do with my comfort level with the solution ingredients and […]

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7 keys to prioritizing when you work from home

I gave up my office space in favor of working from home. While it’s extremely convenient in a bathrobe-and-slippers kind of way, I find that it has forced me to prioritize my time and my business in a new way.

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