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HR

5 Tips for Hiring Quality Employees for Your House Cleaning Business

At the end of my first year in my house cleaning business, I had over $200,000 in revenue. You don’t get to this number by doing all the work yourself. If you want to have a small business where you can schedule jobs and work just when you want, that’s fine, but don’t expect the […]

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Running a Cleaning Business

Why You Need Risk Management for Your Cleaning Business

The risk management plan is different in a small business than that within a large corporation, but the problems that arise as a result of poor risk management are the same. For many small businesses, all it takes it one hit to knock them down.  Every dollar counts and unforeseen events and losses could cost […]

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Operations

Finding and Holding Onto Good Help in Your Cleaning Business

I get asked a lot of questions about hiring and keeping good workers. Unfortunately, we all run into this issue today.  The key to good help is defining who your BEST employee would be and then targeting those people where they are found. Finding Good Help Can you work with part-time workers or do you […]

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Running a Cleaning Business

Hiring the Right Employees – Advertising and Interviewing

It all starts with a good ad to motivate the right people to call or send in their resume.  By listing your ideal employee, level of proficiency, incentives, bonuses, etc., you’re telling job hunters exactly what you need and are willing to provide. Your prospects are sizing you up from the moment they talk to […]

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Customer Service

4 Things You NEED to Know About Your House Cleaning Clients (That They Won’t Tell You!)

A service based business relies on the quality of the service they provide to attract new customers and retain existing clients. If you’re like most small businesses, you may think this is the key to your future success. And you would be wrong. The only way you’re going to keep ahead of your competition is […]

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HR

How to Start a Cleaning Business With Employees

Hiring your first employee for your cleaning business should be a positive and exciting venture. You have successfully taken your business from the initial start-up to the point of having enough jobs or excess jobs, leading to your decision to hire workers.

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Leadership

Leadership – Choosing a Style

Once you make the decision to hire workers for your cleaning business, you end up doing the best you can to motivate them to produce the quality cleaning you need to keep your clients. But are you getting results? Now that you have the workers, it’s time to determine if your management style is working […]

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Customer Service

House Cleaning Checklist for Quality Control

Running a residential cleaning service requires more than just showing up to do the cleaning. Your clients and customers have high expectations today. They want to trust the cleaning people who show up, but they also want to know what you accomplished on each appointment. A house cleaning checklist provides this information to the client. […]

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Sales & Marketing

Minimum Wage Raised in 13 States

Base pay elevated While 13 states have increased or will certainly add the base pay increase for employees in 2014, 11 more states will certainly take it into consideration this year.Is your state one of those? As a small business, you will need to make adjustments for this increase: 1) More than ever, it’s imperative […]