So, you’ve landed a new cleaning client, they’ve signed the paperwork, and everyone’s ready to start that lovely new cleaning job. Are you missing one crucial piece of the sales puzzle? Do you know how to onboard new cleaning clients for a more profitable cleaning business? Why Is Good On-Boarding So Important? In the […]
5 Top Cleaning Industry Events You Should Attend in 2017
It’s one of my favorite things to do… Attend cleaning industry events – either conferences or exhibitions and literally surround myself with people who are passionate about the same things as me – entrepreneurship, marketing, their businesses and of course, cleaning.. As far as I’m concerned, attending industry events are a must do if […]
The 10 Best Podcasts & Resources for Cleaning Business Owners
The 10 Best Podcasts & Resources for Cleaning Business Owners When I was starting out in the cleaning business, all I wanted to do was find other (more successful) cleaning business owners…. it would have been awesome to have had a list of the 10 best podcasts and resources for cleaning business owners back then […]
How Top Cleaning Businesses Use Social Media
Social media can be tricky for cleaning businesses. Let’s face it. There’s nothing ‘sexy’ or ‘social’ about cleaning right? And yet other cleaning business owners are nailing it online – so how do they do it? It’s kind of an unknown world for so many cleaning business owners, and yet almost without exception… …that’s how […]
8 Tips on How to Make Your Boss (and team) Respect You
What are the 8 Tips on How to Make Your Boss (and team) Respect You? Now before you start thinking… “you can’t make people respect you – respect is earned” (which it most definitely is and I wholeheartedly agree with you), hear me out for a minute… As a cleaning business coach, one of the […]
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 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 […]
Cleaning Business Automation. Is It Right For Your Business [Part 3]
Cleaning Business Automation. Is It Right For Your Business (Part 3) If you haven’t had a chance to check out the first 2 videos in this series, here they are again – Part 1 and Part 2 (each video is only about 2 minutes long) It’s a big step taking your cleaning business to the […]
Cleaning Business Automation – Is it Right For Your Business? (Part 2)
Cleaning Business Automation – Is it Right For Your Business? (Part 2) It took me about 10 minutes to make up my mind that our cleaning business needed automation, in my previous career – the business was extremely system focussed and I knew how powerful it was to have repeatable processes within a business. But […]
You’re the cleaning business boss. So what’s your plan?
There’s nothing like running your own cleaning business. You: make the decisions drive the actions that bring value to your customers reap the rewards of ownership You are also the only one who loses sleep over the profit/loss statement. But you don’t have to go it alone. This isn’t rocket science. Two things are required […]