🔨 Basic building blocks to build a strong house cleaning or maid service business from the ground up.
Do you need to be certified to clean houses?
Find the answer to that common question.
Plus learn about certifications you need for specialty cleaning like post-construction cleanup, medical cleaning, green cleaning and crime scene cleanup.
[Includes a listing of specialty cleaning certificate courses.]
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Do you need a license to clean houses?
Get the long and short answers to that common question.
Includes licensing information in all 50 US states and the District of Columbia.
Get started with licensing your house cleaning, housekeeping or maid service today.
Discover a proven seven step work flow for detailed cleaning in your customers homes.
Tasks in each step are part of a batch workflow. Those batched tasks are easy to remember and repeatable in each customer’s home.
The result is the same deep level of service each time you clean your customers homes.
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What are the Dirty Dozen and why you should avoid doing them in your cleaning customers homes?
12 tips to leave your customers homes and your business reputation spotless.
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The second most important rule of cleaning is knowing when to stop.
Learning this rule will save you countless hours of valuable cleaning time in your customers homes and a lot of irritation.
Do your best work and don’t stress out about what comes after.
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What is a “work fence”?
How can a work fence save your time, energy and sanity?
Discover what you need to build a work fence that makes you and your customers happy…and keeps you productive.
[+ Get my work fence list.]
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Business taxes don’t have to be scary.
Take a deep breath and find out which taxes you need to pay in your cleaning business.
Learn ways to prepare for them, pay them on time, in full and stay out of trouble.
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A business license can do more for your house cleaning business than identify your business to the public and the tax collectors.
A business license can create a trust edge with potential customers and help you charge what you and your services are worth.
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What are the next steps to choosing a cleaning business name that works as hard as you?
Find out more in this state by state guide.
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A name is just a name, right?
Not always.
Discover some basic things to consider when choosing a cleaning business name.
The right cleaning business name works as hard as you do to introduce people to your company.
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