5 Costly Mistakes to Avoid When Hiring Cleaners (And Why Choosing the Right Team the First Time Saves You Thousands)

Let's say John is a business owner and business is growing fast. A lot walking daily and the place getting dirtier everyday due to high traffic.

John decide to start getting help, but the first thing that comes in mine is hire a cleaning company nearby to take of the cleaning for him.

John has 3 quotes. First from an experience cleaners with years of experiences, a second small company but with also experiences and a 3rd guy with no background or experience. But because of price wise John decide to go with the cheapest guy.

The importance of choosing the right cleaning service

It is really important to choose wisely and don't be cheap when choosing your cleaners, specially when your business is picking up. You won't have time to go and correct what the cleaners doing wrong or calling and emailing about how you're not happy with the service that you're receiving.

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In this blog, together we'll cover the top 5 mistakes business owners make and 5 benefits of hiring the right cleaning team the first time

5 Costly mistakes business owners make when hiring cleaners

If John read this blog, he would surely avoid these 5 costly mistakes but he doesn't. But for you whose reading right now, for sure that will help you a little bit. Without further ado let go to the 5 mistakes and how to avoid them.

1. Choosing the cheapest quote instead of the best value

Cleaning is hard work and to be able to to deliver good cleaning service first the person need to have the right training, and also after a long day of work that person need to be able to put food on the table for their family.

According to my calculation a good cleaner can clean about 740 square foot an hour depend on the space for residential cleaning and about 1200 square foot for commercial standard cleaning with no heavy scrubbing or doing heavy duty work.

By hiring the cheapest guy, you will end up stressing more then if you were doing it yourself. The cheapest guy will try to cover the whole property so he can be at list, have enough to pay his employees and be profitable.

The only way to be profitable is to do half of the job, and when the space missing, stacking it up will become a big headache.

2. Not checking credentials, licensing, and insurance

Most of the time the cheapest guy won't cary an insurance or license because he just trying to survive.

Most of the time the cheapest are people that can't find any job because of their background or not authorized to work in the country.

The problem with that as a business owner if anything happend, you will end up take charge because that person is working for you as your employee not a contractor or 1099ers.

What proper credential look like:

Proper credential is like checking if the person have a real business (registered or a legal entity), is the business at least have a liability insurance.

If anything who to contact, is that person can be easily reach. Who's comming to your business or home, if one day that person don't show up or something breaks, damage or missing while the cleaner was there.

If someone got injured at the job, who's responsible? If it's an employee does the company do backgroung check or not?

There are a lot when it comes to checking a companies credential. Checking credential its not important until something happened.

3: Skipping the Background Check on Reviews & Reputation

Now a day with just a simple google search there's a lot you can quickly discovered about someone you're trying to hire or a company. You don't need to do deep search anymore, on google they will tell you:

• If the person have Google bad or good reviews(What others are saying)

• If the person or company have a website

• How many other platform the person use, ex: Yelp, Facebook, Thumbtack, Angie, Homeyou, Reddit, LinkedIn, etc. And what other profile the person have

Bad reputation is a red flag, dealing with someone whose not consistent or not keeping his word is not a good thing and that waste a lot of your time.

Runing a business is a lot of work but, laying on beds and thinking about if your cleaners will show up or what could be waiting for you when you come to your business is a red flag. When you at your business you're dealing with business but when you get home. Your time is to relax and have fun with your family.

4: Not Asking About Cleaning Processes & Products

I know most people are busy and they just need someone to rescue the them without asking any question. In reality, no one can help you if the person doesn't know what kind of help you are looking.

By not telling the person what you want and what is your expectation, they won't be able to meet your expectation.

I have a client the most important thing at her house is a glass cabinet with her collective items in it. She doesn't care about her room or bathroom not cleaning right but when it comes to her glass cabinet, it has to be spotless.

Some cleaning product that your cleaners use can damage your appliances or even painting in your house.

I have a product that is so dangerous, I don't let no new cleaners use it, because I can damage paints, stainless steel, marble etc.

By asking your cleaners about their cleaning process and what kind of product they use can really save you from a lot of headaches.

Eco-friendly or green product are expensive but not using product that is safe for the environment can domage your high end finishes items.

5. Hiring Without a Clear Service Agreement or Expectations

It hard to get on a contract that has no scape clause. You don't like the persons work and there's no way to eliminate or cancel the contract.

Or the contract says that if terminate early you'll be penalize. Big company do that because some people are not honest, but you are not one of the dehonest people out there.

Just have clear service agreement or expectation can save you a lot of problem in the future.

Now you know all the bad things, if there are bads, there must be some good. What are some benefits of hiring the right cleaning company for the first time?

Benefits of hiring the right cleaning company the first time

Some of my clients say where I have been hiding, they have been looking for me for a long time and now I'm finally here!

We promote long lasting relationship. Roenter is a family business and I want my clients to be here for the next 20 to 50 years at least. I want my kids to run the company after I retire or can't run it anymore. Below are some benefits of hiring the right cleaners the first time.

1. Consistent, High-Quality Cleaning Every Visit

A reliable cleaning service takes time to hire, train and bring trusted background cleaners and also have supervisors checking the place to make sure that everything done right.

With reliable systems and checklists to check consistency, save time and headache and provide high quality results.

2. Protection of Your Property & High-End Materials

Trained cleaners know how to cleaning and not leave any damages, scratches on your marble, granite, stainless appliances, etc.

Clean right and know what product to use, what can work better, what is not working take time and a lot of studies. Untill now so many time I face situations where I don't know what product to use or not knowing what to do. I always go back and check with my mentor after 5 years in this industry.

You need peace of mind not stress or headache. Knowing that your place is taking care by a professional, give you extra time to have fun and do what matters most to grow and scale your business.

3. Improved Health, Safety & Indoor Air Quality

A cleaned house is doesn't increase the property value, but it make your visitors want to come back and make your employee safer, improve moral of your employee also emprove their health.

Did you know that a clean place boost moral and productivity? Spending more on cleaning is not a money that you lost, it is actually an investment to acquire better client, and get more referrals. I have people calling and telling me that I went to client house and their house is always cleaned and spotless, and they refer me to you can you come and clean my house as well?

There's some of your clients that will tell other about the cleanliness of your place and refer other to you as well. But by hiring the cheapest guy you're actually decrease your profit and making less money. Because when your place is not properly cleaned some clients will come once and never come back.

Because apparence play a big role in any businesses. How your place look plays a big part, that free advertising.

When the place is not clean, client will think that they can get sick because of germs, dusts can trigger allergies, etc.

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4. Saves You Time, Money & Long-Term Costs

It take time to fine a good cleaning service. It's a headache to sort to proposal, check credentials and legitimately grow the cleaning company. Those things are a lot of work and they take time.

Hire the best cleaning company the first time save you time, money and build long term relationship and have better sleep at night.

Spending a little more on good results can be a life changer.

5. Better Customer Impressions & Increased Productivity

A clean spaces improve mood, energy, and workflow. For businesses, clean environments elevate brand image. For a person a clean home increase his/her values.

CONCLUSION

Now let say that John hire the right cleaners the first time and accepts to pay a little extra for the cleaning. That only can increase his net worth by 10%.

Save time and headache sort throught proposals all the time and stop wasting time. The Price you pay isn't more important the value you will get when you hired the right guy.

Do you want us to stop by and give you a quote? We're not Walmart that sale cheap stuff cheap. We're that publix that sale good stuff at an affordable price.

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