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cleaning pricing profit

Analyzing your ‘3-Future-Goals’

by Steve Toburen

How long has it been since YOU (even slightly) raised your prices? Two years, five years, ten years… NEVER?

Categories quickTIPS Tags carpet cleaning business growth, cleaning pricing profit, goals, raising prices Leave a comment

Refocus on ‘profit’! – Part 1

by Steve Toburen

Over the last 20+ years I’ve told 1,000’s of Strategies for Success (SFS) students that, “All things being equal it is better to have MORE money than NO money!” Are we all in agreement?

Categories quickTIPS Tags cleaning pricing profit, increase carpet cleaning ticket total, niche marketing, online conversions for cleaners Leave a comment

Benefiting from ‘Positive Peer Pressure’

by Steve Toburen

Loyal employees stay with you long-term based mostly on emotional factors.

Categories quickTIPS Tags cleaning pricing profit, employee retention, motivation, payroll, recognition bonus Leave a comment

Renovating your customer’s garage floor is a great ‘ASO’!

by Steve Toburen

Would you like to easily make an extra $75.00 to $150.00 per customer AND leave the home owner delighted? Steve shares a vision he received while watching Big Billy Yeadon “spinning away” …

Categories quickTIPS Tags add-on sales, cleaning business profit, cleaning pricing profit, diversification, garage floor cleaning, price wars, tile and grout cleaning 2 Comments

How to achieve success as an owner-operator!

by Steve Toburen

“Small” decisions can determine your fate as a owner operator in the cleaning/restoration industry.

Categories quickTIPS Tags business plan, cleaning equipment, cleaning pricing profit, insurance, personal success, Strategic Partnership 3 Comments

Closing the sale after they say, “Let me check with…”

by Steve Toburen
interesting times

You need to tactfully reveal the real reason they are delaying so you can then ‘NEGOTIATE’.

Categories quickTIPS Tags budget conscious cleaning customers, cleaning pricing profit, COVID-19, price shoppers, sales Leave a comment

Should you branch out into water damage?

by Steve Toburen
water damage expansion

This QuickTIP gives you the vision and the courage to at least investigate gingerly ‘dipping your toe’ into small residential water damage losses!

Categories quickTIPS Tags cleaning pricing profit, diversification, three legged stool, water damage restoration, water damage restoration expansion 1 Comment

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Residential

by Steve Toburen
celebrate

Residential carpet cleaning is the toughest money in our industry! And yet it is the typical starting point for most into the Cleaning and Restoration industry. (Including me!)

Categories quickTIPS Tags cleaning industry, cleaning pricing profit, new carpet cleaner, online reviews, price wars, residential carpet cleaning 3 Comments

Can you have the ‘best of both worlds’?

by Steve Toburen
finding balance

Can you find your profitable “Sweet Spot” in the cleaning and restoration industry without hiring full-time workers?

Categories quickTIPS Tags additional cleaning services, carpet cleaning technician, cash flow, cleaning pricing profit, growing your carpet cleaning operation, health and carpet cleaning, part-time employee, personal success, raising prices, Strategic Partnership, success in carpet cleaning industry Leave a comment

A San Diego cleaning and restoration contractor wants out…

by Steve Toburen
selling their business

Are you sure you want to sell? Here are some other options. Also, what factors do many people miss when preparing their business for sale?

Categories Steve's "Bleeding Hearts" Advice Column Tags additional cleaning services, business sale, cleaning pricing profit, hiring managers, maintenance contract commercial cleaning, maintenance contract residential cleaning, personal success Leave a comment

Analyze, Divide and CONQUER! (Part 2)

by Steve Toburen
time efficiency

How you use your time matters. Steve offers 5 ideas for efficiently conquering your local market area.

Categories quickTIPS Tags calculate expenses, cleaning pricing profit, dominate local cleaning market, increased efficiency procedures Leave a comment

A desperate carpet cleaners cry for help!

by Steve Toburen
entrepreneur exhaustion

If a business owner is to reinvent his or her business sacrifices may be needed. What sacrifices does this Spokane cleaner need to make?

Categories Steve's "Bleeding Hearts" Advice Column Tags burning out, cleaning pricing profit, employees, raising prices, success in carpet cleaning industry Leave a comment

Can I be successful as a part time retired person?

by Steve Toburen
retired carpet cleaning

Is commercial carpet cleaning compatible with being part time retired? Maybe. Steve gives some pointers to this energetic former manager.

Categories Steve's "Bleeding Hearts" Advice Column Tags cleaning pricing profit, old age, part-time employee, rental property carpet cleaning, retirement Leave a comment

Quit living ‘in fear of the few’!

by Steve Toburen
don't call attention to raised prices

Steve shares 3 tips to handle raising prices with repeat customers.

Categories quickTIPS Tags carpet cleaning financials, cleaning pricing profit, increase carpet cleaning ticket total Leave a comment

How to get more regular commercial work!

by Steve Toburen
boost your commercial sales

Commercial contracts offer high profits, regular work and consistent, predictable cash flow. What’s not to like?

Categories quickTIPS Tags bidding, cleaning pricing profit, dedicated sales morning, maintenance contract commercial cleaning, sales cycle, selling commercial cleaning Leave a comment
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