You’re a diligent boss who’s careful to hire the ‘standouts’….but you’re finding it challenging to say the least, to get the right applicants to even show up for an interview, much less be a great fit for your cleaning business. You hope they’ll stick around so that you can continue to provide superior service to […]
How to Manage a Cleaning Team (so it takes up less of your time)…
How to Manage a Cleaning Team (so it takes up less of your time)… If you’re a cleaning business owner, I’m sure you’ve wondered how to manage a cleaning team more effectively, so that it takes up less of your time… right? It’s one of the most common things I hear from time poor cleaning […]
How to Recruit the Best Cleaning Staff for Your Cleaning Business
How To Recruit The Best Cleaning Staff for Your Cleaning Business… Could it be true that nobody wants a part time cleaning job in your town? I was the keynote speaker at a big cleaning industry trade event last week, and one of the recurring questions I had was ‘how can I recruit the best […]
The Motivation Secrets of 5 Successful Entrepreneurs (and how you can be more like them…)
Finding Motivation From the Most Motivated… I get it. In the cleaning business, Monday’s can be tough. Really tough. Complaints, issues, staff who didn’t clean over the weekend (but were supposed to..)… Monday’s can be manic when you’re a cleaning business owner. So today, I want to share advice from 5 of the world’s top […]
How To Nurture Cleaning Business Clients (Part 2)
How many times do you hear “no” in any given week while running your business? It can be a real downer can’t it? To grow your business, look past the no’s and , change your perspective on the situation. Because… the sale starts with “no…,” Yep…. You heard that right. ‘No’, is where many sales […]
How to Nurture Cleaning Business Clients (Part 1)
There’s one thing I think all of us in the cleaning business can relate to – The emotional roller-coaster of frustration when you lose a client for no apparent reason. One day you’re flying high with lots of great contracts, and the next, you’re despairing because a couple of clients decided to “try something else” and […]
Every cleaning business has challenges
What are your challenges? Finding clients, keeping clients happy, losing clients, managing staff, running the accounts, getting paid, making payroll… oh and did I mention marketing and managing social media? Most of the time, you the cleaning business owner, find a solution, create value, and move forward, happily and profitably. But some business challenges have […]