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Residential Cleaning Articles

Is your specialty cleaning residential homes?  Or are you thinking of expanding your commercial cleaning business into the residential marketplace?  The world of residential cleaning can be a money maker for your cleaning business, but can also bring with it problems you never anticipated.  Be prepared to know what residential customers expect from a cleaning company and how to deal with their issues and concerns.

Marketing Your Service To Commercial Customers: How Is That Different From Marketing Your Residential Service?
Sharon Cowan
Marketing Your Service To Commercial Customers: How Is That Different From Marketing Your Residential Service? CROSS CONCEPTS SERIES: In our 4th installment, we will learn how to identify your commercial market, and where to find solid commercial customers who will help you grow your business. This series explores how to successfully manage and grow residential and commercial segments of our industry at the same time. . . . keep reading
How Do I Achieve Successful Management of Residential and Commercial Cleaning at the Same Time?
Sharon Cowan
How Do I Achieve Successful Management of
Residential and Commercial Cleaning at the Same Time? CROSS CONCEPTS SERIES: This 3rd part in our series will address the issues involved with managing both commercial and residential divisions at the same time. This series will explore how to successfully manage and grow residential and commercial segments of our industry at the same time. . . . keep reading
Operational Differences Between Residential and Commercial Cleaning
Sharon Cowan
Operational Differences Between Residential and Commercial Cleaning CROSS CONCEPTS SERIES: This is the second installment in the series of articles on how to successfully manage and grow residential and commercial segments of our industry at the same time. In our 2nd installment, we will investigate the Operational Differences Between Residential and Commercial Cleaning. . . . keep reading
Expanding and Diversifying Your Maid Service Business Today
Sharon Cowan
Expanding and Diversifying Your Maid Service Business Today CROSS CONCEPTS ARTICLE SERIES: This series will explore how to successfully manage and grow residential and commercial segments of our industry at the same time. In our first installment we will investigate why diversity is an important strategy in growing your business. . . . keep reading
AUDIO: Maid Service Basics: What You Must Know To Grow Your Residential Cleaning Service
Jean Hanson
AUDIO: Maid Service Basics: What You Must Know To Grow Your Residential Cleaning Service Maid Service Basics - What You Must Know To Grow Your Residential Cleaning Service. This is a series of interviews with residential cleaning expert, Debbie Sardone, The Maid Coach. And for those of you who own commercial cleaning businesses, you'll want to listen too - these important lessons apply to anyone who owns a cleaning business. . . . keep reading
The Advantage of Using Teams for Residential Cleaning
Steve Hanson
The Advantage of Using Teams for Residential Cleaning Many residential cleaning companies start out as a one-person operation. But as your cleaning company grows and you add employees you will soon face the problem of whether you should send in a single person to clean a home or if you should send in a team. Some cleaners may prefer to work alone, but is that in the best interest of your cleaning company? . . . keep reading
Residential Cleaning:­ A Beginners Survival Guide
Bob Dockendorf
Residential Cleaning:­ A Beginners Survival Guide There's more to residential cleaning than mopping the floors and dusting the furniture. An important part of residential cleaning is communication with the customer. Also important is the "perception" that you've been there and cleaned the home. . . . keep reading
How to Handle Customer Complaints in Your Cleaning Business
Jean Hanson
How to Handle Customer Complaints in Your Cleaning Business No matter how large or how small your cleaning business is, there is going to come a time when you answer the phone and find a customer on the other end who has a complaint. How you handle that complaint can have either a positive or negative impact on your business. . . . keep reading
Making the Most of Your Time When Cleaning Homes
Steve Hanson
Making the Most of Your Time When Cleaning Homes There is really no wrong way for you to clean a home. But as with any business, time in your cleaning business is valuable. The more cleaning jobs you can fit into a day, the more potential profit you earn. If you can complete the basics faster, then you have more time to offer specialized services or to move on to cleaning the next home. . . . keep reading
Advantages of Residential Team Cleaning
Jean Hanson
Many residential cleaning companies assign two or three person teams for each home, and for good reason. While it's easy enough for one person to clean a home, work gets done much more quickly with teams, and before they know it, they're off to their next job. So what are the advantages of residential team cleaning? . . . keep reading
Thinking Beyond Cleaning Office Buildings
Jean Hanson
If your business is like many other traditional cleaning companies, you started by cleaning an office, apartment building, retail store or other commercial building. Adding additional clients may have included more office buildings, medical clinics and perhaps even expanding into manufacturing facilities. But have you stopped to think about expanding into residential cleaning? . . . keep reading
Communicating with Your Residential Cleaning Clients is Key
Jean Hanson
Communicating with Your Residential Cleaning Clients is Key People hire a residential cleaning service to make their lives easier. As a cleaning contractor, you not only need to provide a good service, but you also need frequent communication with your client to ensure that both parties understand their responsibilities and that there are no misunderstandings. . . . keep reading
Why You Should Charge Extra For First Time Residential Cleaning
Steve Hanson
Why You Should Charge Extra For First Time Residential Cleaning When starting a new residential cleaning account you'll need to explain to your new customer why you charge more for the "first time" cleaning. A first time cleaning of a new residential cleaning account is more like a "spring-cleaning" and needs extra staff time to remove extra soil and build-up . . . keep reading
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