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Sales & Marketing

Why You Need a Marketing Calendar for Your House Cleaning Business

Many people go into a house cleaning business thinking the quality of their work will make them successful. While this is part of the equation, it’s certainly not going to get you there if nobody knows about your service. The only way you’re going to reach the success you want and need is to consistently […]

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Running a Cleaning Business

How to Ethically Beat Your Competition

Your job as a small business owner is to STAY in business! Once you open your business, you are in a continual race with your competition for the best customers and a way to provide the best services. This race can take up a lot of your time monitoring how they run their business and […]

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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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Sales & Marketing

When to Turn Down a Sale in Your Cleaning Business

When starting a small business, you work hard to quickly fill your schedule and perform quality work to keep your customers happy. But there may come a time when you would be better off turning down a sale in your cleaning business. When you have a customer who is eager for your service, why would […]

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Startup

Mistakes Made by Home Business Entrepreneurs

If you haven’t started a business in the past and are thinking of starting one now, don’t go the traditional route to become a home business entrepreneur. You know – doing everything the textbooks tell you to do. That’s because the world has changed and so have the economics of starting a business. The best […]

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Running a Cleaning Business

Create Swipe Files for Your Cleaning Business

“Swipe files” are a collection of tested and proven sales letters that are used by advertising copywriters as a quick way to create new advertising campaigns. This is why their ads work and yours may not! You can implement this strategy in your cleaning business for anything that applies, such as hiring ads, advertising text, […]

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Finance

Tips for Selling Your Business

One of the benefits of building a successful business is that you have created an asset that you can use. You can sell the business when the time is right, but don’t make this decision without doing your research before you get started with selling your business: Make sure the economy is strong enough to […]

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Running a Cleaning Business

Performing All the Cleaning Jobs Yourself May Just be the First Step

I started my house cleaning business by doing all the work myself.  But that wasn’t my long-term plan. I knew I wanted to have a bigger business than that.  Doing the work myself meant that I would only ever make so much money.  So I built my residential cleaning company step by step, brick by […]

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Startup

Plan for Your House Cleaning Business Success

There are many ways to start a residential cleaning business, but I can honestly say there is a WRONG way.  You see, most new businesses fail within the first 6 months because they failed to plan their business. With just a little planning, you have a better chance of making it! A residential cleaning business […]