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Why You Need to Use Work Orders in Your House Cleaning Business

You’ve heard of work orders, but maybe you think they’re for large businesses or maybe you don’t really understand the purpose and how they can help your house cleaning business. Make no mistake, work orders should be part of your daily work.

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Running a Cleaning Business

Customer Service Mistakes to Avoid to Increase Customer Retention

We’re moving and responding so fast today – usually in response to technology – that customer service has had a systemic erosion over the last few decades. Today I’m truly shocked at the attitude of many businesses and employees who take their customers for granted.

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Sales & Marketing

Secrets to Making Social Media Work for Your Cleaning Business

In this post, I’m going to review the current updates to popular networks and why you should be using them. Then I’ll show you how to implement your social media so it’s working for your business without taking up all your time. Social media is the perfect way to have your business stay in front […]

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Finance

10 Cash Flow Strategies for Your Residential Cleaning Business

As a small business owner, one of your jobs is to make sure you have enough cash on hand to pay your bills. A true indicator of the health of a business is cash flow, the money flowing in and out of the business. This money includes that from sales, expenses, debts collected, credit extended, […]

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Startup

4 Secrets to Build a Residential Cleaning Business and Not Just Another Job

Many people dream of working for themselves, being their own boss, and having the freedom to only take on clients and projects they love. What they don’t realize, though, is that there is a huge difference between building a business and being self-employed. Business owners scale their income. Self-employed people trade dollars for hours. Business […]

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Business Systemization: Stop Being a One Man (or Woman) Show in Your House Cleaning Business

Clicking on a link sometimes means I make a small commission if you make a purchase. I only make recommendations on products I have thoroughly reviewed or use myself. Are you still trying to run your house cleaning business as a one man (or woman) show? If so it’s time to stop. Don’t you want […]

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Sales & Marketing

How to Create a Marketing Calendar for Your Cleaning Business

A Marketing Calendar is used by successful businesses to identify and budget marketing events throughout the year to ensure there are no long lapses between events. This calendar is created to include new and existing customers. The strategy ensures consistency and effectiveness to bring in new prospects and hold on to existing clients. READ MORE […]

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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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Sales & Marketing

House Cleaning Business Website

Today you can’t afford to start a business without a website!  I couldn’t say that when I first published the House Cleaning Pro.  Most of my website visitors had a hard time just getting my emails, let alone knowing how to build and maintain a website. In recent years, having an online presence has become […]

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Operations

Microsoft Ends Support for Windows XP: Now What?

Microsoft Ends Support for Windows XP: Just what SMBs Need to Know If you’re still using Windows XP, you could be leaving yourself open to security and hacking issues. That’s because Microsoft stopped supporting the XP operating system in April 2014. What does this mean? You will no longer be getting any updates to the […]

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Sales & Marketing

Post Smarter: The Best Times to Use Social Platforms

The very best Moments to Utilize Social Media Systems (Infographic) Are you in a rut – trying to get your social media posting completed between other tasks? You can easily get out of that rut by posting at different times throughout the day. This allows different groups of people – who are on social media […]

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Microsoft to End Support for Windows XP and Office 2003 from April 8

Microsoft to end support for Windows XP and Office 2003 from April 8 If you’re still using that old computer running on the XP platform or Microsoft Office 2003, you’re in trouble! Support for these systems ends this month and that means there will be no further security updates – therefore, you are leaving your […]

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Operations

SkyKick Application Suite Simplifies The Migration To Office 365

SkyKick Application Suite Simplifies The Migration To Office 365 Business editions of Workplace 365 offer online access to 3 additional products: Exchange, a calendaring software program, Lync, a communications web server, and … See all tales on this topic Microsoft’s Workplace apps for iPad ushers in new age Microsoft revealed Workplace for the iPad, a […]