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I straight-up want to help you grow your cleaning business. I like watching people do well and flourish in their success. It makes me happy to watch people who have doubted themselves rise up.
You Gotta Have A Lot Of Things To Survive In Business
Surviving and thriving in business is hard, you gotta be a lot of things If you follow any online business-type pages, you will see a gazillion posts and inspirational quotes online about all you need to be an “entrepreneur” is faith in yourself, buckets of will power...
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Financial Jargon Every Business Owner Should Know
Financial Jargon Every Business Owner Should Know Do you struggle to understand your business figures? Get lost in accountant-speak? Worry no more, I got you... Today, we are going to talk about financial jargon every business owner should know. We are going to talk...
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Starting Again After A Failure
If at first you don't succeed... "Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently" ~ Henry Ford We all fail from time to time. We all have plans that don't go the way we want them to in our minds. Maid In Business has been one of those...
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Recruiting For Cleaners | The Process Part 2
Recruiting For Cleaners? How to create a recruitment process for your cleaning business - Part 2 Last week we spoke about the first stage of designing a recruitment process and today we take the next step in designing a process that will aid you when recruiting for...
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How To Create A Recruitment Process For A Cleaning Business
Do You Need A Recruitment Process For Your Cleaning Business? Taking on a new employee and growing a team is an exciting time for your cleaning business. What is the best way to recruit? Is there a recruitment process to follow? I often get questions asking what is...
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What Is The Best Way To Recruit Cleaning Staff?
Do you need to recruit cleaning staff for your business but are not sure how? For today's Q&A Thursday, the following question about how to recruit cleaning staff was asked on the Maid In Business Facebook page and the answers may help you too. Read on. This was the...
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3 Signs It’s Time To Hire An Employee
When is time to hire an employee for your cleaning business? Are you constantly rolling tasks over on your to-do list? Do you run out of hours in the day and feel like you are meeting yourself coming backwards? Yes? It may be Time to Hire... When your business starts...
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How Should I Price Up Cleaning Work For My Business?
What Is The Best Method To Price Up Cleaning Work For My Business? Is it best to price up for cleaning works by the hour, by the square foot, or by the visit? How should I structure my pricing and what method works best? Over on my Maid In Business Facebook page, I...
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What You Should Know Before You Recruit A Cleaner
To grow your cleaning business beyond yourself you will have to recruit team members – but I need to tell you some home truths before you do… When you start to gain more cleaning hours than you can physically do, it’s time to start thinking about when to recruit a...
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Employees: The Curse Of A Cleaning Business?
In Your Cleaning Business, Are Your Employees A Blessing Or A Curse? Did you know the average employee turnover rate in a cleaning business can be up to 300% a year! Why is it so high and what can we do about it as cleaning business owners? According to...
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Social Media Cheat Sheet For Image Sizes
Social Media Cheat Sheet Do your images and pictures leave a lot to be desired? Do you go cropping crazy and cut off heads or parts of business info? Or are you a grower and make images too large and they distort? Would a pinnable social media cheat sheet and other...
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What Do You Need To Learn To Grow Your Cleaning Business?
Do You Need Help With The Business Part Of Your Cleaning Business? What is the ONE thing you need to learn, in order to grow your cleaning business? Do you struggle with sales? Are you nervous about marketing and how to do it? Do you stress out over social media and...
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Sales Objection Handling For Cleaning Business Owners
Do you dread the thought of cold calling? Does the thought of picking up the phone make you sick to the stomach? Let me help you deal with that... Over the past few videos, on the Maid In Business YouTube channel, I have been talking about sales and the sales process...
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What Is A Brand? – Advice For The Cleaning Professional
What Is A Brand Anyway? If I asked you to name a smartphone, a burger or a running shoe, off the top of your head, I would bet that that you would give me a brand name... The brand of a smartphone/running shoe came to mind easily and naturally to you, didn't it?. It...
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What Is PR? Business Advice For The Cleaning Professional
What Is PR? PR stands for Public Relations and in its simplest terms, it is the practice of managing the spread of information from a person/brand/business to the general public. You can watch a brief video here explaining what PR is:...
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How To Write A Press Release PR - Public Relations - is the business of managing the output of information , through a press release, about a person, brand or business. We spoke about what PR was in our last post, so if you didn't catch that please click this sentence...
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Should You Drop Your Prices To Compete?
Should You Drop Your Prices To Compete? In the cutthroat and competitive world of the cleaning industry, is it ever a good idea to drop your prices in order to compete and win business? Now, we aren't talking the odd discount or voucher scheme here, just to be clear,...
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How To Get More Clients, Customers and Prospects
How do you get new clients? How do you know where they are? As a start up business, or a business trying to establish themselves, one the of the main skills you need to master is how to get new clients. No Clients = No Business. How do we get new clients? How do we...
read moreShould You Put Pricing On Your Website? | Business Growth
Pricing on your website, flyers, and in the public domain - good idea or bad? As a small business owner, should you make your pricing, for your service or product, known to the world? Should you keep your prices close to your chest? Can any good come of your prices...
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Competitor Checking For Your Cleaning Business
Competitor Checking - Why You Should Be Doing It For Your Cleaning Business We all know of those cleaning businesses who always seem to be tweeting about a new contract, or you often see them in the local paper for something great their business has achieved? But how...
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Social Media Marketing & Marketing Planner For Your Cleaning Business
Social Media Marketing & Marketing Planner For Your Cleaning Business You know you need to market your services and products to get clients through the door. You know you should be using social media to tell the world about you and your business. What you are stuck...
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How To Price Up For Your Cleaning Business
It's all about the money, money, money... It is a question I get asked often - How do you price up for your cleaning service? The area of pricing is one that most new cleaning businesses (and the established ones) have trouble with, as we run the risk that, if we...
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Let’s Talk About Your Cleaning Services
Services and Products | Let's get deeper... In the last post, from Maid In Business, "Services, Clients and Prices: Is Your Business In Order" we looked at evaluating our cleaning services in the grand scheme of things within our business. In this post we are looking...
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Services, Clients and Prices: Is Your Business In Order?
How often do you check, review and look over your services, clients and current pricing structure in your business? How do you know if you are still competitively priced or running on par with service offerings compared to your competitors? It's time to take stock of...
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One Minute Sales Pitch: A How To Guide
The One Minute Sales Pitch: One thing that strikes fear into the hearts of business owners everywhere. How do we succinctly tell a room of strangers what we do, in a minute or under, without appearing fake, sale-sy or a complete waffling waffler? It's tough, to start...
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Networking For Business
Networking For Business - 5 Do's and 5 Don'ts Attending networking events and/or connecting with others online, on social networking platforms, is vital in the start up stage and for the consistent, on-going, growth of your business. Some of us relish networking and...
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Buying A Franchise Vs Starting A Business
When starting out in the cleaning industry, is it best to buy a tried and tested business model of a franchise or go it alone and start from scratch with your own business? In this post we will look at buying a franchise Vs starting a business. Ding, ding... round 1....
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Sales Vs Marketing What Are They And Why You Need Both For A Successful Cleaning Business Sales and Marketing are two words that you will hear all the time in business talk both on and offline. As a cleaning business owner, I am sure you have heard, watched or read...
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What Legal Structure Is Best For Your Cleaning Business?
What Legal Structure Is Best For Your Cleaning Business? As a budding cleaning business start-up star, I am guessing that you want to get on with the doing in your business and not learning about what legal structure is best for your cleaning business or thinking...
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Business Branding: What Is & How Do I Get One?
If I said the words smartphone, burger or search engine... I'm pretty sure the image that would pop into your head would be a brand right? But what is business branding and how do we get one for our business? The definition of branding, taken from...
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