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Cleaning Business Owners: 5 Reasons Team Leaders Fail
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How Many Sick Days Do You Allow Cleaning Employees Each Year
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Pregnancy Safety | 5 Tips on House Cleaning Products to Avoid & What to Replace Them With
Are your “expecting” cleaning crew members using any of these products while cleaning homes for your maid service business? Note: Product suggestions are the author’s preference and does not constitute an endorsement by Home Cleaner Magazine. This is not paid advertisement placement. The “nesting” phase of pregnancy happens to every mom. That mad rush to [...]
Avoid a TKO: How to Manage a Crisis with Nerves of Steel
It’s almost 8:00 AM and your maid service cleaning teams are gathering in the make-ready area, organizing their equipment and supplies and loading their vehicles in preparation for the day’s busy schedule. You’re at your desk looking over each team’s workload and getting ready to distribute the paperwork and clients’ house keys to your team [...]
Common Pitfalls for Cleaning Service Owners in the Interviewing Process
I came to the assessment business, almost seventeen years ago, via a chain of events. In my previous business life, as General Manager of a multimillion dollar commercial equipment supplier, I hired and fired Salespeople, Technicians and Administrative Staff. Like most people, I finally determined I really wasn’t very good at making people choices. My [...]
Educational Download | Avoid Costly Pitfalls When Hiring an Office Manager
Are you hiring from “inside” or “outside” of the company, which is best? Are you sure you know the right questions to ask to get the best fit? Are you sure you have done what you need to be ready for an office manager? Buy and download this education session to learn the “ins” and [...]
Are You Cleaning Up or Are Your Employees Cleaning You Out
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How to Advertise and Attract Good Employees for Your Cleaning Business
This live educational event has already taken place. Once the session has been edited and is complete, it will be available for purchase in the Education Store and community members will have free access in the Member Education Library. Let’s face it, one of the most stressful aspects of owning and running a home cleaning [...]
Should You Have GPS Units in Your Cleaning Business Company Cars
One of the best business investments I have made is the purchase of GPS tracking units for my cleaning business company vehicles. These devices are not the global positioning units that GIVE directions, which have become so popular recently for our private cars, but the devices that are installed under the hood to keep track of [...]
TMI: Too Much Information. The Pains and Costs of Home Cleaning Service Owners Getting too Personal
We are all familiar with the cost cutting measures entrepreneurs go through in the recent economic times…but have you forgotten to plug up a less visible money leak? Costly mistakes with staff hiring and managing could be stealing a bundle from the bottom line of your home cleaning business. It’s curious to me that the [...]
