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Hiring, Managing and Motivating Cleaning Employees

One of the best things you can do before you hire workers is to assemble a process for hiring, training, and managing employees. If you think you can  hire subcontractors, research how contractors are managed differently than employees to comply with IRS guidelines before you make the  commitment. When you hire workers as employees, you […]

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8 Steps to Transition From a Solo House Cleaner and Hire Your First Worker

How to Hire Employees for Your Small Business Once you have started your business doing the work yourself, it’s a daunting task to consider bringing in workers. You’re used to working alone and your clients are used to you and how you provide the service. You have invested everything you have in nurturing your clients […]

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How to Terminate an Employee in Your Residential Cleaning Business

In this post you’ll learn: The legal aspects of terminating an employee What you need to have before hiring employees How a review process is used to validate the termination How to reduce the emotional impact for the employee Making the decision to terminate an employee is hard, but actually sitting down and telling the […]

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Operations

Developing Training Manuals for Your Residential Cleaning Business

Creating training manuals for your house cleaning business is one of the best decisions you can make if you have made the decision to hire workers. This creates a system new hires can follow to perform the work to your standards. These manuals don’t have to be huge at all, but they do need to […]

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Setting Up an Employee Recruitment Plan

blank line How to Hire Employees for Cleaning Business Before you start recruiting, read this post on how to hire employees for your small business. These eight things must be completed before you hire your first worker.blank line This article will explain what you need to do to setup a staff recruitment plan: – What […]

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Effective Strategies to Reduce Interview Cancellations and No Shows in Your House Cleaning Business

One of the top issues in residential cleaning is the hiring process to grow your business. If you haven’t managed people the process will leave you shocked and frustrated with a lot of questions. One thing you want to avoid is sitting around waiting for interview candidates who never show! In this article I’ll share: […]

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Running a Cleaning Business

Simple and Effective Way to Attract New Clients to Your Residential Cleaning Business

It’s the two things that will always be a constant in your residential cleaning business: finding and converting leads into new customers and finding and retaining new employees. It takes a lot of trial and error to discover what works for your business. Most house cleaners today also want to get into commercial cleaning. You […]

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House Cleaning Help Wanted: What is Your Favorite Interview Question to Ask Candidates?

Recently we were discussing how to put together a help wanted ad to attract the right candidates in my House Cleaning Business Mastermind group. When I saw this article, it resonated with me because it was timely and you have to be able to ask the right questions to discover the right employee to hire […]

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Simple Employee Training Process for Your Residential Cleaning Business

Unlike commercial cleaning where your client rarely – or – never sees your employees, residential cleaning companies rely on the relationship they have built with their clients. After all, each of your client homes is their castle and they’re not going to let anyone into their castle! Imagine someone coming into your home to clean. […]

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Should You Hire Workers for Your House Cleaning Business?

Nope – you don’t have to hire workers! You can run a professional cleaning business and plan to do all the work yourself. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with that. Just realize – you’re never going to be free from your business, because you have clients to service and they’re waiting for you. Hm – Now […]