Helping Contract Cleaners Deal with the Credit-to-Cash Cycle
Chicago, IL - Now that it has been a few years since the 2007 economic meltdown, business owners are looking at how they may have contributed to their own difficulties during this period. One area they...
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5 Tips to Prepare for Retirement on a Shoestring
Maybe it is this generation’s record-breaking student debt, or maybe it’s the trend of getting married much later in life, but millennials are known for putting off adult responsibilities. The...
View ArticleHow Much Should CBOs Be Paying Themselves?
When you started out as a single cleaner, you simply pocketed whatever was leftover after you paid for supplies. Add that up, and that was your salary for that year, right? But when you establish a...
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3 Tips for Making Better Product Choices
Purchasing decisions can seem overwhelming. Not only are you trying to decide what to purchase and the price that you are willing to pay, there is the added complexity of getting your employees to...
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HouseCall Raises $6 Million for Mobile App
SAN DIEGO, CA (PRWEB) - HouseCall, the mobile platform for running home services companies, raises $6 million Series A led by August Capital. Other investors include existing investor e.ventures, and...
View ArticleBreaking the Cleaning Equipment Buying Habit
There are literally billions of square feet of hard surface flooring in North America and much of it does need to be maintained in traditional ways: stripping, finishing, and buffing. However, when it...
View ArticleBut What Does It Cost to Own It?
Hamilton, OH - Jansan distributors report that the summer months are often their busiest of the year because this is the time when many school districts, universities, and other facilities make...
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Using Telehealth to Curb Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs
LOS ANGELES – With the employer mandate still intact and healthcare reform provisions, such as the Cadillac tax, expected to continue taking effect in the coming years, many businesses are searching...
View Article3 Ways Pay-as-You-Go Workers’ Compensation Can Help Your Cleaning Business...
Workers’ Compensation Insurance is required by law for businesses in most states. It provides employees with coverage for some lost wages and medical costs that accrue from injuries occurring on the...
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3 Ways My Business is Better Today Than a Year Ago
In Part 1 of our series, we analyzed the profitability challenge my business was facing at the start of 2014. In Part 2, we looked at the structural and cultural changes implemented during my...
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9 Questions with a Cleaning Business Insurance Expert
In the insurance industry, cleaning businesses are a very popular risk to insure. Sadly not many insurance agents know how to properly assess this industry. Many business owners find the questions they...
View ArticleTraining Wage Introduced for Younger Workers in Michigan
Michigan Senate Bill 250, also called "The Workforce Opportunity Wage Act," may allow employers to pay employees under 20 years of age a a wage 15% lower than minimum wage during their training period,...
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Guess the Average Number of Days Off Per Injured Worker
According to data collected by the US Bureau of Labor in 2014, the average number of days an injured home cleaning technicians (or maid) will require off to recover from a work-related injury or...
View ArticleCBO Charged with Identity Theft over Online Reviews
Steve Yun, owner of two online referral services, West Coast Maids and California Maids, has been charged with seven counts of identity theft after he double charged customers who left negative online...
View ArticleJanitors Win Travel Time and Meal Break Lawsuit
Capital Building Services Group, based in Illinois, provided the contract janitors for several department stores in Minneapolis, MN. The stores confirmed that the group won the contracts because they...
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CompleteMarkets.com Helps Cleaning Businesses Find Affordable Insurance from...
BIG BEAR LAKE, Calif. -- Dry cleaners, laundromats and other cleaning businesses such as carpet cleaners have always had a hard time finding affordable liability insurance for their companies. These...
View Article5 Great content marketing topics for your blog
Consumer expert Geoff Williams interviewed a variety of types of customers of residential cleaning services to find out what the key value is for them - in other words, what makes the personal expense...
View ArticleNY fourth state to add paid parental leave to employers' FMLA obligations
While a large percentage of cleaning businesses are too small to be covered by Family and Medical Leave Act requirement, those with 50+ employees for at least 20 weeks of the year do. According to the...
View ArticleHow to start a cleaning business for under $500
One of the great things about the cleaning industry is you can get started for very little money. After several years of meeting with hundreds of cleaning business owners, I have noticed that those...
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The day I fell in love with debt
In October 2015 I signed an agreement to sell my largest residential cleaning company, My Maid Service Cincinnati, to Blue Skies Services. The number one question I have gotten since then is, “Why did...
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