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October 7, 2020
Win More Commercial Cleaning Bids: Our Bidding Tool Is Here
Swept’s new Janitorial bidding tool can help you win more cleaning contracts. Your Custodial Service company will see a boost in sales. First, let’s break down what goes into a bid from both sides …

February 19, 2021
4 Ways to Get More Referrals for Your Commercial Cleaning Business
Referrals and word of mouth[…]

February 16, 2021
Most Effective Marketing Ideas for Your Janitorial Businesses
If the desire to grow[…]

February 9, 2021
8 Tips for Getting Janitorial Clients to Come to You
As businesses scale their growth,[…]

February 5, 2021
How to Get Top Dollar When Selling Your Janitorial Business
You’re not going to be working forever, that’s a given. You might even take a vacation now and again (imagine that!) Just because you’re leaving, doesn’t mean your cleaning business has to stop. In fact, you can earn more if it doesn’t. If your business is going to keep growing, even after you’ve walked out of it, you’ll need an exit strategy to successfully transfer ownership to someone else. Setting the wheels in motion now will radically boost the value of what you have built – that will become very clear in the price tag once you sell.

February 2, 2021
Using Swept’s Janitorial App to Track Cleaner Health Checks
As we face into winter with Covid-19, we continue to see ongoing requirements for employers to ensure they have safety measures in place to keep employees safe. A key piece of many operational plans includes regular health checks for cleaners, adding to the list of things that have changed for Janitorial companies.

February 2, 2021
What’s the Best Way to Market Your Janitorial Business?
There are more than 1 million commercial cleaning and janitorial services doing business in the US. It can be challenging to get noticed, especially in an online world, where in many cases, people just ask Google for “a janitorial cleaning service near me.” It takes a strategic marketing approach to stand out from the pack and land new clients.

January 28, 2021
4 Steps to Getting More Done in Your Cleaning Business
You’re busy right? I know a lot of us are busy, but running a Janitorial business is a different kind of busy! Managing schedules, hiring new cleaners, keeping new cleaners, winning new business… the list goes on… and on….and on. In this post we look at 2 things: 1) How to use the “Getting Things Done” method to boost productivity 2) Our favorite productivity tools to help you get even more done

January 26, 2021
3 Ways Janitorial Management Software Helps Your Business Grow
Lost hours at work can kill profits, stagnate growth, and impede workplace efficiency. Each year, employers lose hundreds of hours of work from employees over various issues. In fact, 16% of lost work hours occur in administrative departments, with managers accounting for just over 7% of lost work hours annually. With janitorial cleaning services experiencing exceptional demand throughout the country, finding ways to scale your company and ensure that management has the tools to supervise employees effectively is essential.

January 20, 2021
3 Ways to Improve Employee Retention in Your Cleaning Business
In this article, we’ll share the approach that helped keep our retention rate at over 90% when we ran our own commercial cleaning company.