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One of the best ways to get customers is through referrals. Customer referrals are the best advertising you can have. But believe it or not, competitor referrals are almost as powerful.
An excellent shortcut for getting cheap quality leads is to buy unwanted business from your competitors for pennies on the dollar. Let me explain how [...]
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One common question/complaint I’ll often hear from readers is:
“This is taking so long to get customers. Isn’t there a faster way to get this business off the ground?”
Well, yes… there is… But believe it or not, most people are better off taking the slow road to the big leagues.
Really, it’s a question of maturity. Once [...]
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Well, this is all very new to me. I’d like to thank you all for visiting my office cleaning business consulting blog, and I hope you’ve been enjoying the articles I’ve been posting.
The last thing I would ever want is for this to be a closed forum. After all, this is the internet, and it’s [...]
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Time to get agressive
Well, it’s that time of year again.
The snow outside is just starting to melt. The sun is shining. The birds are signing. And everywhere you look, there’s someone offering to help you start up a cleaning business.
Every year, thousands of new entrepreneurs are lured by the promises of instantly making $160,000 per year in an [...]
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Free education:
I believe it’s possible to get an MBA-level education without ever setting foot inside a university. A client of mine started her company at the age of 22. She had just arrived from a third-world country, with no education, and spoke only broken English. It’s now a year later, and she’s making more than [...]
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Buy contracts:
There are some companies who don’t actually do any of the cleaning themselves, but would rather sell off the contracts and keep a cut for themselves. Although this practice is usually reserved for commercial cleaning contracts, many of these companies will come across the occasional house cleaning gig, and they’ll happily pass it [...]
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Tags: cleaning business, cleaning contracts, cleaning franchise, house cleaning, how to cleaning business
Finally, Some Respect
You know, this industry can really have its ups and downs.
Sure, there’s good money if you manage your affairs properly. But it can be really tough, especially for the first few years.
Of course, you get virtually no recognition. We’re like the invisible ninjas that come in and fix everyone else’s mess. And when we [...]
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I just read this article about a company that supposedly got stiffed by the Clintons. I’ve read these types of stories about Hilary before. I don’t know if her people are cheap, dishonest or just disorganized, but she needs to keep out of the press for this type of stuff.
I’ve emailed [...]
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Author: Michael Richmond
It may sound like semantics, but there is a difference between Cleaning Green and Green Cleaning. The first indicates that the janitorial services is using Green products. The second indicates that they are using a Green practice as well as Green Products. In the belief that Green cleaning is more [...]
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Author: Hunter Crowell
Because of moderate incomes and increased costs of living, many people seek other alternatives for making ends meet. Owning a business is an effective way of boosting your income. Of course, for achieving a successful new business venture, there must be a need. Although many people have the entrepreneurial spirit, very few have [...]
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