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Cleaning Business Articles and Tips

A New Business Success Story
Challenges for Cleaning Businesses-Transcending Commodity and Making What Your Services Are Worth
Marketing Your Cleaning Business Easily and Affordably Without Cold Calls

GCA Member Success Story In The Making -- Tim Herr of XLAdvantage ... is what I believe to be a GCA success story. We all met Tim at the GCA Cleaning Convention in August of 2006. He came to the convention for the purpose of learning the how to, what to, when to...Since that time he has asked many questions. The answers might not been what he thought they would be but he listened anyway. He was willing to listen to the advice he asked for. ..He has asked the hard questions and accepted the even harder answers. In the 8 Months since the convention his business has begun to prosper...There are a lot of questions asked here ...with Tim we have been able to watch him learn and grow as a business and as a business owner...READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE

The great challenge for any cleaning business today is to transcend commodity. If the customers sees you as offering basically the same services as your competitors, the only way you can compete is with price. And we all know that anyone can beat any price or be out-bid at any time. It’s basically the last person that speaks, wins. But wins what? Very low margins that are hard to run a company on. James, you’ve said it yourself in another thread.
Remember the old adage “He who lives by the Sword, Dies by the Sword.” This hold true when it comes to lowest pricing....So the bottom line is; you must transcend commodity, and if you’re really good, defy comparison....We’ve all heard the old saying that someone is trying to “compare apples to oranges.” Well that’s exactly what you want to create with Roman Cleaning Service... READ THE FULL ARTICLE

You can market your business and get new cleaning opportunities at no cost? No Cold Calling. No Radio Commercials. Get Very few We Are Not Interested Responses. Well, You can and I am going to share some thoughts with you on how you can get business with just your Business Cards. Everyone always wants to know what to ask when doing Bid Walks. Well, First you have to get the opportunity to do a Bid Walk....READ THE FULL ARTICLE

GREEN ARTICLES

Gainesville, GA cleaning company uses Natural products for the first time and receives customer approval. READ MORE...

Using Your Green and/or Natural Cleaning Information to give workshops or classes for potential customers

For more information about using Green or Natural Cleaning in Your Cleaning Service visit our Green and Natural Cleaning Information Area moderated by April Anderson

Reducing the Use of Toxic Products in Your Cleaning Business-April Anderson, founder of Ontario based Breath eez HMS and peer mentor at Global Cleaning Association provides interesting data to help cleaning business owners and managers make informed decisions when choosing a non-toxic product. READ THE ARTICLE HERE

FIRST NATURAL CLEAN I have been using natural cleaning in my house and have decided to move forward with it in my business. I did my 1st natural clean yesterday on an initial clean and it was fabulous! The client's son and husband both have asthma so I convinced her to let me try the all natural products...seeing is believing you know. There was no complaint about not "smelling" clean, in fact she said it smelled and looked....MORE

GIVING WORKSHOPS FOR EARTH FRIENDLY CLEANING We've gotten to know a lady who works at one of our local health food stores and she called yesterday and asked if we'd like to put on a workshop/presentation on natural cleaning. She said maybe we could set up a table and give some cleaning tips, do some sort of demo, tell people what we use, mention some products that they sell in the store...MORE

GCA/ICA Cleaner's Convention September 21-23 Topic Agenda Announced:

Living and Working Green--naturally. Selling Green cleaning to your customers, making green by cleaning green

Establishing and maintaining a good relationship with your customers. Identifying their needs and addressing your services/programs to those needs. Becoming a gear in the machine instead of a clog in the gears. Being more than a contractor and helping your customer and you realize more profits.

OSHA--Employee Right Know overview and details, outlines what you need to know to avoid OSHA penalties and fines.

Preparing your business for the last step. Selling or passing on your business. Knowing what your business is worth. Determining the best steps in your business growth to maximize value.

Effective Quality Control Programs for cleaning. Inspections, forms, how to look at your cleaning processes for improvement and gaining employee participation in the process.

Marble and stone care, what to look for, what to do, what NOT to do, helping the customer understand the best methods for maintaining the life and beauty of their investment.

Learn More and Register at the ICA Convention Website