Cleaning Up: A Commercial Cleaning Podcast

A podcast about all things business, commercial cleaning, and franchising! Each episode, we bring new insights on growing and building a janitorial business. We discuss business, franchising, and all things cleaning. Hosted by Damien Boehm

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Episodes

Business Coaching With Bill Stack

In this episode of Cleaning Up, Damien Boehm interviews Bill Stack. Over the last 11 years, Bill has helped over 300 business owners improve their profitability through sales, marketing, team training systems development and strategic planning and he’s done this both in the U.S. and Australian markets, He was someone who was my coach as we started franchising Urban Clean and continues to work with me, and our executive team. Bill shares Why every business needs a business coach and What transfor...

Jun 18, 2022•29 min

How to Employ Cleaners for Profit

In this episode Damien Boehm covers employing cleaners in your cleaning business. This is such an important topic because you can't do all the cleaning. Once you start growing your business to a certain size you’ll need help. This episode is relevant to someone who is just starting out in their cleaning business and getting to that point where they do need to add on staff members, but also includes tips to help you with employee retention no matter how many cleaners you have. You'll learn: - How...

Jun 09, 2022•19 min

The One Thing You Must Have to Succeed in Your Business

In this episode of Cleaning Up, Damien Boehm shares the one thing that has helped him succeed in growing a multimillion dollar cleaning business. And it’s not a strategy, sales tactic, or masterful business plan - It’s the right attitude. This week we leave sales strategies, client retention strategies and business growth tactics to focus on mindset. But this is no wishy-washy episode. You’ll learn the right way of approaching problems, overcoming obstacles, and accomplishing goals in your clean...

Jun 01, 2022•17 min

How to Keep Cleaning Clients for Life

In this episode you'll learn how to keep customers for life. There is no point winning business only to lose it. If you want to make money in commercial cleaning you absolutely need to know how to retain clients. Today, I’m going to share with you the 3 steps I use to retain clients. Winning contracts is sexy and exciting but in reality the game is won or lost on customer retention. For more information go to www.urbanclean.com...

May 25, 2022•19 min

How to Grow Your Cleaning Business With Strategic Partnerships

In today’s episode we’ll be covering how to grow your commercial cleaning business with strategic partnerships. In this podcast, Damien Boehm shares with you how he got strategic partnerships into his business and how he made them work and how you can too. We’ll be covering Why you want them Who you want to partner with How to find them What agreements to make How to make them work and lastly The 3 Major Mistakes to avoid If you're interested in learning about what franchise opportunities are av...

May 18, 2022•24 min

How to Franchise a Cleaning Business

In this episode, Damien Boehm covers converting a standard commercial cleaning business into a franchise operation. We’ll be covering What size your business should be or should aim to be for franchising to make sense Why so many cleaning businesses struggle to pass $500K in revenue What benefits you get when you turn a cleaning business into a franchise operation The steps you need to take to franchise your business Damien Boehm shares his experience and hard won lessons creating a franchise ne...

May 12, 2022•23 min

Can You Add 2 Million Dollars to Your Cleaning Business in 1 Year?

Add 2 million dollars in revenue in one year? Is this even possible? Can a single individual do this in their business? This episode is about hardcore sales. Your host Damien Boehm is going to be covering the exact steps needed to reach this sales target He’ll be covering Marketing Strategies Sales conversion rates Costs of marketing & What it actually takes to achieve these numbers This episode is not for the faint hearted, and it’s not for anyone scared of sales. As a bonus at the end of t...

May 12, 2022•19 min

How to Win Commercial Cleaning Contracts

How to Win Commercial Cleaning Contracts In this podcast, Damien Boehm reveals the process he’s used and taught others to use that's resulted in them winning more than half a million dollars worth of new commercial cleaning contracts in a single year without spending a dime on advertising. You’ll learn: What you need to have before you can win commercial cleaning contracts Which marketing strategies don’t work if you’re serious about growth Why a commercial cleaning service needs to be marketed ...

May 12, 2022•23 min

Franchise or Independent?

When does it make sense to buy a commercial cleaning franchise? Is it better to stay independent? This podcast covers the pros and cons of investing into a franchise, when it make sense and who should never buy a franchise. In this episode you'll learn the pros and cons of buying a franchise how to decide if franchising is right or wrong for you how to compare different commercial cleaning franchises what franchises to avoid and when buying a franchising is a bad idea If you're interested in lea...

May 11, 2022•16 min

How Franchising Should Work in the Commercial Cleaning Industry

In this episode, I get Urban Clean’s General Manager Kirk Simpson to join the show. Some harsh things get said about the commercial cleaning industry and franchising in the sector. There is a solution, but it’s unique and unconventional. We discuss what is typical for a cleaning business and franchising in the industry, why the industry is broken and how up until now the typical commercial cleaning franchising model hasn’t served clients, or franchisees. Many clients have resigned themselves to ...

Nov 20, 2019•26 min•Season 1Ep. 2

Making Money with Toilet Paper

Host: Damien Boehm, Guests: Terry Maguire and Casey De Vene In this episode we cover How a cleaning company can maximise its partnership with a cleaning supply business How a cleaning supply business can help a cleaning company How to monitor and control product and paper supplies We’ll also reveal The gaps most cleaning businesses have Some secrets to winning cleaning accounts Terry Maguire and Casey De Vene from Compliant Cleaning Supplies join the show today. Terry got into the cleaning suppl...

Nov 13, 2019•28 min•Season 1Ep. 1

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