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Survival in the Home Cleaning Business

Cheerful is an understatement when describing Renee Rawcliffe, owner of Do You Need Me? Cleaning Professionals, LLC. You will not encounter many home cleaning service owners that have a brighter, more positive outlook on life. Anyone who knows the industry or owns a service business is well aware that this characteristic will take you far. [...]

Customer Service “No Problem” or is it?

What does a customer REALLY want from you?   When you can answer that   question, you can keep customers longer and have greater profits. Even the most skilled managers and cleaning business  owners make common mistakes that cost them customers. Here are a few top priorities for your customers: Help.  They want someone to solve their [...]

Three Easy Ways to Stand Out at Networking Events to Promote Your Cleaning Business

                Networking is one of the most powerful ways to build your cleaning business. Other than your time and effort there is not much else that is required, making it also one of the most cost effective ways to get new clients and grow your company. Owners of [...]

Motivation: The Driving Force of Success

We are all motivated by something, the drive to succeed, the drive to win, or the drive  to survive! What motivates you is unique to you; everyone that sets out on the mission to start and grow their own home cleaning business is driven by something that is their own. Perhaps your personal motivation for [...]

The New Face of the Professional Home Cleaning Service Industry

The last 15 years have been a time of tremendous change and advancement in the professional home cleaning service industry. More than ever, this is truly a viable option for entrepreneurs who want to build businesses and are serious about success. A clear indication of this is a new breed of service owners: The 20-something’s [...]

Home Cleaning Service Owners: 5 Minutes Can Change Your Life

There is no better time than now to heed the  warning of sage advice, ‘never eat alone” or “dig your well before you’re thirsty”-both top selling book titles.  We would all be better off, or at least have greater resources, if we had done more of this a few years ago, before the current economic [...]

What’s A Home Cleaning Guru Without an HCT Certification

Answer: a company at risk of at least becoming stalled as the residential cleaning industry moves forward with the first ever national House Cleaning Technician certification, awarded through The Clean Trust. The HCT certification is the best practices nuts and bolts of delivering the best cleaning service to residential (home) clients in your market, not [...]

Lead the Charge for Your Home Cleaning Business Into 2012

This is the time of year when every publication, media outlet and consultant reminds us that we have begun a new year and we need to get our collective acts together!  Yet one more reminder that maybe our success was not what we wanted and perhaps we missed goal achievement. Ok, so you don’t need [...]

Are You Connecting with the Right People to Ensure the Success of Your Home Cleaning Business

We have all heard it said that it is not what you know but “who” you know. While there is no denying the fact that to start and own a successful home cleaning business or any business for that matter, you have to know “stuff”, and continue to learn more all along the way. But, [...]

Succeed and Grow Your Home Cleaning Business with CIMS

Castle Keepers, Inc. is well-known as a unique innovator within the home cleaning business. In 2008, the owners, Tom and Janice Stewart, had already experienced substantial success with their business in Charleston, SC but wanted to take Castle Keepers to the next level. Their objective:  to become more efficient in  achieving business goals and objectives [...]

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