Before being a business owner, I was an employee in someone else's business more than a few times. So I've taken my fair share of training classes as a new employee of an organization. Training ranged from horrible to awesome, but most fell somewhere in-between. Some jobs just throw you into the fire with little to no training. Others give you the bare minimum … [Read more...] about When hiring people, make your training FIRST CLASS and PROFESSIONAL
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If you are not getting sales, then one part of the “magic formula” is missing
We have all heard the equation E=Mc2. That's Albert Einstein's most popular mathematical equation. While that one has a meaning far above what most of us can comprehend, there are other equations that are much simpler to grasp. One in particular comes from the business world and it basically tells you the formula for making money in whatever business you are involved in. The … [Read more...] about If you are not getting sales, then one part of the “magic formula” is missing
They hired you once and were very happy. Why didn’t they ever call you again?
Not every job in the cleaning business is a regular recurring cleaning account. Some are one-time jobs for services like window cleaning, carpet cleaning and spring cleanings. These certainly aren't as profitable as having a 5 time per week cleaning account, but you can't be choosy. A paying customer is a paying customer right? Take what is given you is my philosophy. But … [Read more...] about They hired you once and were very happy. Why didn’t they ever call you again?
Never forget this phrase as long as you own a cleaning business: “What gets you hired gets you fired”
You are probably wondering what I mean by the phrase “what gets you hired gets you fired”. I'll get to what it means in a second, but let me explain where it came from first. I was reading a book I purchased about starting a cleaning business many years ago. This must have been over 20 years ago. Though the book wasn't all that good, it did have some useful tidbits of … [Read more...] about Never forget this phrase as long as you own a cleaning business: “What gets you hired gets you fired”
Productivity Tip: Do your most important work first.
Mark Twain once said... “if the first thing you do each morning is to eat a live frog, you can go through the rest of the day knowing it is probably the worst thing that you’ll have to face all day.” What I think he really meant by that is this... if you take care of your most unpleasant task first thing in the morning you spend the rest of the day enjoying yourself. This is … [Read more...] about Productivity Tip: Do your most important work first.