Ask a House Cleaner

Bar Keepers Friend is a favorite among professional house cleaners. And today we talk with Chrissy Roark, from SerVaas Laboratories about Bar Keepers Friend. BKF is great for every cleaning caddy because of its many uses. You can use it for #cleaning pots and pans, stainless steel, aluminum, chrome, copper, porcelain and fiberglass. Other powder cleansers like Ajax, Bon Ami, and Comet while great to clean bathrooms don't have the gentle oomph of Bar Keepers Friend.

How to clean hardwood floors in 3 easy steps with RJ Patel, Vice President of PCT Clean, will change your hardwoods. Automate your house cleaning customer and job details, upsells, invoices and payment with https://HousecallPro.com/Angela The pH cleaner for hardwood floors is an obvious step but DIY cleaning is even better with this method. Whether you're a domestic cleaning service or a homeowner once you learn how to clean hardwood floors #cleaning them will be easy.

Vanessa Higgins shares with us how to create an inspiring home office. If you are a house cleaner, you clean all day. Then you have paperwork to do when you get home. A clean home office is more than ergonomics. Automate your customer details (declutter your home office) with https://HousecallPro.com/Angela Vanessa Higgins, CEO of Clean Tu Casa, says a tidy office removes mental clutter. And every maid service needs a decluttering process to create an inviting workspace.

Liz trotter explains the doomaloop and how knocking your competition can ruin your maid service. As COO and partner of Castle Keepers, and trainer at Castle Keepers Institute Liz Trotter warns against gossip. The doomaloop is bad mouthing your boss, or talking smack about your competition. Gossiping destroys trust and reputation management is expensive. So, avoid the doomaloop and bad mouthing your competition in the first place.

The hosting journey has amazing cleaning and amazing house cleaners. Superhost Evelyn Badia, the celebrity of The Hosting Journey podcast joins us today to talk about turnover service. Every #VRBO or Airbnb host will tell you cleaning is crucial to the home sharing and guest experience. Whether you're a professional maid service or cleaning solo the quick turn is part of Airbnb cleaning. Make your domestic cleaning service stand out with these expert cleaning tips.

A homeschooling Dad tackles cleaning in today's #AskaHouseCleaner. Ken Carfagno, President of Carfagno Cleaning is a Dadpreneur who does house cleaning at home, and for a job. He believes kids cleaning and doing family cleaning projects strengthen family values. He also coaches those cleaning solo as well as those homeschooling. His message promotes single dad cleaning, single mom cleaning and kids can clean too.

RevuKangaroo helps get automatic ratings and reviews for house cleaners. Erika Feinberg, President of RevuKangaroo drops by #AskaHouseCleaner today to talk about surveying clients. Control your reputation by controlling ratings and reviews. The good reviews get moved to marketing automation and pushed out to social media. The bad reviews along with reporting go to customer service. Now you can fix the problem and ramp up your employee training and employee development.

We've got Google hacks galore for you. Listen up house cleaners. Royce Ard, Co-owner of My Amazing Maid shares Google hacks galore for maid service SEO. Automate your admin tasks with https://HousecallPro.com/Angela Then spend your free time learning Google hacks galore and doing #cleaningmarketing Boost the visibility of your domestic cleaning service through search engine optimization (a.k.a. SEO). With knowledge of keywords and Google AdWords house cleaning marketing just got easy.

Where do you find good cleaning employees? Jean Hanson, co-founder of MyHouseCleaningBiz.com gives us tips. If you want to hire the best you have to create a company culture people want to be part of. If you wonder where to find employees or how to keep good employees you have to know how to hire the best. Jean Hanson also co-founder of The Janitorial Store and in the cleaning business for 32 years knows about hiring #cleaning staff.

Rentalpreneur secrets with Rachel Prince cover a range from what Airbnb guests expect on a short stay. If you are in the hospitality business rentalpreneur secrets will help you improve your VRBO or STR rating. Airbnb cleaning is key for all vacation rentals but it goes beyond the turnover services. It's about being the best Airbnb host or cleaning partner you can be. Today's #AskaHouseCleaner sponsors are #SavvyCleaner (training and certification for house cleaners and maids.)

If you've ever been too embarrassed to ask for help to clean this show is for you. Jessica Litman, The Organized Mama takes a new approach to decluttering. In the past, you would hire a professional organizer to come help you tidy up or offer storage strategies or even help with hoarding. Those too embarrassed to ask for help in person can do it through online coaching. It's a minimalist approach to home organizing and easy for everyone.

How about some wisdom from The Cleaning Coach, Ilze Whiteman? Maid services wonder "how do I grow my cleaning company and manage cleaning staff at the same time?" Automate the repetitive tasks by using https://housecallpro.com/Angela The Cleaning Coach has loads of advice to run your domestic cleaning service. And tips and strategies for marketing your #cleaning business.

You can avoid costly firing mistakes and unemployment claims by keeping good records. Maria Dorian of Task Away Virtual Assistants became an expert on unemployment qualifications. * Systematize your daily customer admin tasks with https://HousecallPro.com/Angela * While running a maid service she learned the burden of proof for the job termination is on the person who initiates the separation. Watch this episode on YouTube https://goo.gl/UCs92v

Airbnb laundry hacks make every home-sharing turnover easy. Vanessa Higgins, CEO of Clean Tu Casa shares turnover cleaning tips for hospitality partners. From washing, soaking, spraying, and fast cycles, these Airbnb laundry hacks rock. Short-term rentals, VRBO, Live-in host or housekeeper who does the turnover service - this one is for you. Today's #AskaHouseCleaner sponsors are #SavvyCleaner (Training and certification for house cleaners.) And Turnover Cleaning Tips for Airbnb Cleaning.

Speed Cleaning Red Juice is a fan favorite among #SpeedCleaning cleaning technicians. Debbie Sardone the Co-owner of Speed Cleaning says you can hook the multi-purpose cleaner into the loop of the Speed Cleaning Apron. Carry it with you all over the house -it makes #Cleaning a breeze. As a homeowner, or a professional house cleaner you can use Speed Cleaning Red Juice on almost everything. For glass and windows there is a Speed Cleaning Blue Juice.