It is easy to get swept up (pun intended) in trying to please your customer when you run a cleaning business. Creating boundaries in any workplace is essential, but especially when it comes to cleaning homes and offices. It is too easy for “just one small thing” to be added to your list of duties. […]

This question goes out to many of the professionals that make up our audience. It’s becoming a pressing issue for anyone who runs a maid service, window cleaning business, or any business that uses chemicals on the job. For many business owners, it’s a tough question. More Customers are demanding “green” cleaning agents (an already […]

Pool service is a particularly-seasonal field, so it’s necessary to be as competitive as possible the rest of the year round. Some pool service owners have secondary businesses to run in the winter, but not everyone has that luxury. The best thing to do to keep everything in the black all year long is to […]

There seems to be some kind of collective fantasy about what social media means to the modern business, especially the ones that are still call their work labor. Everyone is told to have a social media presence, and told how to engage their customers with friendly call outs, fun tips and the occasional joke that’s […]

Everyone likes to say that they run an honest business, but sometimes customers just don’t see it that way. Among field service professionals, contractors are probably viewed with the most suspicion in popular culture. You see plenty of jokes on T.V. about contractors never showing up or raising their estimates for no reason. Cliched depictions […]