Freshly updated for 2019!
Christmas is one of the busiest times of year for cleaning business owners and in the spirit of the season I wanted to share some tips with you. I give you… the 12 Cleaning Business Tips of Christmas! I promise that there is no Partridge in a Pear Tree here, just solid business advice parcelled out in bite-sized video bits. These are the first 6 tips. Check back in a few days for the next batch, or join my email list so you don’t miss a single tip!
Tip 1: How to handle cash tips that employees get at Christmas
How should you handle tipping when one of your staff has a trainee with them during the week when the holiday tip comes in? What if one of your regular technicians is out sick? Should their replacement get the holiday bonus? Check out this video for my thoughts on this tricky subject. (Hint: having a written policy in place will help a lot when situations come up).
Tip 2: How To Sell More Maid Service Gift Cards During The Holidays
Cleaning businesses are notorious for not selling a lot of gift certificates during the holidays. In this video I give you a few tips that will help you sell thousands of dollars worth of gift cards. I know that my methods work, because I sold $12,000 worth of maid service gift cards in a few months just by following these principles!
Tip 3: How To Avoid Being Short-handed During The Holidays
This time of year can be frustrating for cleaning business owners. It’s really “feast or famine” in our industry— one day you have too many customers and not enough workers and then the next day you have too many workers and not enough customers! If you’re like me, you’ve beefed up your marketing during the holidays because more people are looking for cleaning services and I want them to find my company not my competitors. That means work is coming in fast and furious and you want to be sure you have a fully-staffed team to take care of your clients. Check out this video where I give you tips on how to avoid being short-handed, especially during the busy holiday season.
Tip 4: The Best Time To Raise Your Cleaning Business Prices
In this video, I discuss how to raise your rates at this time of year. That’s right, the last quarter of the year (October, November, December) is actually the best time of year to raise your rates. Click through to see why that is, and what you can do to increase your prices to take advantage of the holiday spike.
Tip 5: Conducting In Home Estimates More Effectively
Not everybody does in-home estimates these days, but I’m a firm believer. I want to turn every initial cleaning into a recurring customer, and there is a greater opportunity to raise your conversion rate from the initial cleaning to a recurring booking if you have taken the time to invest in the relationship with that customer. Listen to this video for other reasons why I like to do an in-home estimate and how to do them more effectively and efficiently.
Tip 6: Barter Is A Guaranteed Sale
Do you barter for services or products that you need as a business owner? When you trade your services for someone else’s, you save yourself a small fortune. Think of all the things that you could be bartering for. Maid service is something everybody wants, so you’ll never have trouble finding people who will want to barter with you. Check out my bartering suggestions in this quick video.
