Latest House cleaning business Podcast Episodes
Grit Stories 6 - Angry Again
Smart Cleaning School - June 17, 2024 05:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsThis episode is a follow up to "The Messy Middle" There was a place in between your initial goal to start your cleaning business and the place that you defined as success where things got messy. It got really hard to stay motivated. You weren't sure if you made the right decision. Your doubts an...
Grit Stories 5 - The Fight Was Worth It
Smart Cleaning School - June 10, 2024 05:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsIn my "January 2022 Freedom Update with Coach Josh", I inferred that we qualified for the trip to Florida that we booked after "A New Freedom Vision". I had just onboarded my fifth and final cleaner to cover our tenth and final building. The other 4 C3 Team Members were all doing well and Flori...
Grit Stories 4 - Paddle Like Crazy
Smart Cleaning School - June 03, 2024 05:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsI was listening to the Tim Ferriss Podcast recently as he interviewed the one and only Seth Godin. Between comments, Tim uttered the metaphor of the duck does all of its work under the surface. I literally had to pause the episode and write out this one! In my last episode, Mission 20/20 Accomp...
Grit Stories 3 - What Are Your Flies?
Smart Cleaning School - May 27, 2024 05:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsWhen I was 13, I got a job with the Movie Exchange. It was the company owned bye buy step-grandparents Monty and Shelly Tibbitts, whom I've talked about in prior episodes. They were the only entrepreneurs in my teen years, but I never had the courage to ask them real questions on business minds...
Grit Stories 2 - Healing Grows with the Poison
Smart Cleaning School - May 20, 2024 05:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsI used to get nasty poison ivy as a kid. It would bubble up and itch like crazy. The worst case I ever got was on my face. My eyes were puffed nearly shut in the heat and humidity of July. It was torture. Thankfully, the doctor gave me a steroid to help heal it. You get the point. Now my son ge...
Grit Stories 1 - The So Low Life
Smart Cleaning School - May 13, 2024 05:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsI've been in the cleaning business for 17 years. I was a solo cleaner for 15 of those 17 years. As I was first exploring the cleaning groups in 2016, I got the impression that solo was viewed as "so low". We are just trunk slammers that buy our cleaning supplies at Walmart and advertise our ser...
Gettin Gritty Wit It
Smart Cleaning School - May 06, 2024 05:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsThroughout my life and career, I have often wondered what causes some to emerge victorious no matter the scenario. It's easy to win when the conditions for winning are easy. In contrast, it's easy to quit when the conditions to quit are easy. What is the ingredient in the human character that c...
Membership Mindset
Smart Cleaning School - April 29, 2024 05:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsThere are thousands of solo cleaners in the free cleaning groups. They all want to grow. Yet, many are not succeeding. Why is that? I believe it comes down to one word: Mindset. Too many are looking for the easy way or the short-term fix. But that's not how the successful, succeed. What does it...
Pricing Series Part 5 - Pricing Mindset
Smart Cleaning School - April 22, 2024 05:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsIn this part 5 episode, I sum up the cost and value concepts with an excerpt from the Solo Elite Membership. It's a clip from a membership call that allows you understand the mindset needed to price effectively. I want to invite you to join the Solo Elite Membership. What is it? It's the only s...
Pricing Series Part 4 - Blueberry Pie
Smart Cleaning School - April 15, 2024 05:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsThe first lesson of Blueberry Pie covers the 3 types of Buyers: Those that want your product or service and value it enough to pay what it's worth. Those that want your product or service and do not value it enough to pay what it's worth. Those that don't want nor value your product or servi...
Pricing Series Part 3 - Cost Versus Value
Smart Cleaning School - April 08, 2024 05:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsI was talking with Robert Pierce from my Solo Cleaning School Elite Membership. He's doing amazing. Robert works as a manager at Target and it's been in retail for 25 years. He found me on the Side Hustle Nation Podcast and decided to start a solo cleaning business. Robert understood the value ...
Pricing Series Part 2 - Do You Charge By the Hour?
Smart Cleaning School - April 01, 2024 05:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsThere are thousands of questions asked every day across the cleaning communities worldwide. I can say experientially that the two most frequently asked questions deal with how to clean and pricing. This is no surprise as both of these questions are asked by newer people and the answers come wit...
Pricing Series Part 1 - It's Not Your Pricing, It's Your Process
Smart Cleaning School - March 25, 2024 05:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsI shared this exact post in a free Facebook cleaning group and thought it valuable enough to include on the podcast. Here's the post. I'm new to this group but not to cleaning. I love this industry and helping newbies. I see pricing posts all the time and wanted to share some insights that I ...
Got a Name for Doing
Smart Cleaning School - March 18, 2024 05:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsIn early 2020, I was a brand new podcaster and member of my local chamber of commerce. My solo cleaning business was not making us much money and the pandemic was mere weeks away. That all changed with one breakfast with Ken Byler when he taught me the mindset to "Get a Name for Doing". I highl...
Coaching Series Part 5 - When You're Humble, You're Teachable
Smart Cleaning School - March 11, 2024 05:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsI have been a huge fan of the Tim Ferriss Show lately because I love the long-from interviews with world-class performers as Tim dissects how they accomplished what they've accomplished. I LOVED a recent interview with Kelly Slater. If you've never heard of Kelly Slater, he's an 11-time world su...
Coaching Series Part 4 - Characteristics of Coachability
Smart Cleaning School - March 04, 2024 06:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsThis episode wraps up our 4-part coaching series to teach you what it means to be truly coachable. This episode is a clip from a recent Solo Elite Membership Call addressing the 4 characteristics that determine how coachable YOU are. I hope you listen and learn. Then I hope you evaluate your ow...
Coaching Series Part 3 - Are You Truly Coachable?
Smart Cleaning School - February 26, 2024 06:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsThis is a great follow up to "The Value of Coaching with Josh Melton". Josh has been coaching me through Marco Polo in 2023. I ask him questions and he responds. I am very coachable, so the content of my questions evolves over time from basic how-to questions to leadership and how my coach think...
Coaching Series Part 2 - We All Need a Coach
Smart Cleaning School - February 19, 2024 06:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsMy wife and I were enjoying breakfast at Postively 4th Street Cafe in Ocean City, NJ. We love this place and especially the lattes. Oh my, they are good! During our connecting time, we were searching for ways to improve our business and effectiveness as parents. I asked the question. "How can we...
Coaching Series Part 1 - The Value of Coaching
Smart Cleaning School - February 12, 2024 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsThis original interview was released in April 2022 right after our family got home from our first month-long trip to the Gulf Coast of Florida. I hired Josh to be my coach to take me from a solo optimizer to a commercial cleaner with a team that would allow me to go to Florida for a month. He di...
Take the Emotion Out of Pricing
Smart Cleaning School - February 05, 2024 06:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsIn a recent Solo Elite Membership Call, we talked about one of the biggest struggles in the cleaning industry. This struggle is especially challenging for newbies. And it's not just pricing and how to price. This clip from the Solo Elite walks you through how to remove the emotion around the pr...
Finding Your Fish
Smart Cleaning School - January 29, 2024 06:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsIn a recent Solo Elite Membership Call, we talked about finding your ideal customer and niching. Unfortunately, most new cleaners will take anyone and anywhere. This is not ideal because you allow others to dictate the terms of your business. You need to set your own terms to be a real business...
Best Of - Audio Alibis
Smart Cleaning School - January 22, 2024 06:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsMuch time is needed in this podcast episode to clear the names of several members of Total Life Freedom Philly. Before I share the final installment of 'Who Paid for Lunch Clue', I must share a few things that happened in my cleaning business since my last update. It will be short. Trust me! Fi...
Best Of - The Benevolent Benefactor
Smart Cleaning School - January 15, 2024 06:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsMy Total Life Freedom local friends and local networking friend Eric Laylon intersect for a second episode. In "Don't Fight Google or Facebook, Fight for Lunch", my friend Eric Laylon from ReachLocal shared great marketing tips and stats on the digital giants. I followed this with a story of wh...
Best Of - Don't Fight Google or Facebook, Fight for Lunch
Smart Cleaning School - January 08, 2024 06:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsIn this episode, I have an important lesson to share from a new friend of mine in the digital marketing space on the power of Facebook and Google. Eric Laylon is a consultant with ReachLocal. He understands the online landscape more than almost anyone that I know. He's a new member of the MCBA ...
Best Of - Allow a Giver to Give
Smart Cleaning School - January 01, 2024 06:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsAt the end of 2020, I attended my first lunch with local Philly-based members of the mastermind I am a member.When this meal was paid for by another member, we were all grateful and a few of us learned a lesson to allow others to give. But what none of us expected was that this would be the fir...
Best Of - Think Week
Smart Cleaning School - December 25, 2023 06:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsJohn Maxwell is internationally acclaimed and sought after for his gifting in the instruction of leadership development. He has spawned thousands of leaders through his system. I may never physically meet him in person, but his books and talks have mentored me for over a decade. There is one sp...
Best Of - Honor Your Gift
Smart Cleaning School - December 18, 2023 06:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsThis goes back to my introduction episode and going into more mindset on honoring what you currently do and have. Every seed sown comes up. The message here is simple for you to ponder during Christmastime... what are you sowing into the ground with your current job or business? What about your...
Best Of - Because You're a Business Person That Cleans
Smart Cleaning School - December 11, 2023 06:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsThis is the last business update on my new solo cleaning business for 2019. What a way to go out! Andrea Szlavik of A2Z Realtor Pa assures Ken that he is not a cleaner who happens to do business. He is a business person that happens to clean. This is a big difference. Let's dive into this week ...
Measure the Gain, Not the Pain
Smart Cleaning School - December 04, 2023 06:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsThis is Smart Cleaning School episode 4-1-1. Do you know what that means? It means "Directory Assistance" and derives from the old days of telephone operators in the United States and Canada. 4-1-1 has been used since 1930 if you can believe that! The number has taken on a whole new identity in...
It Took a Lot of Carrots
Smart Cleaning School - November 27, 2023 06:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsA cleaner posted this response in a the Solo Cleaners Club free Facebook group that I manage after I asked why they were struggling to find clients as a new solo. "That’s the thing. I just started this year and have none. I used to clean for a company. They trained me and that’s when I fell in ...
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