Podcast appearances and mentions of debbie sardone

Yvette talks with Debbie Sardone who from humble beginnings created a cleaning job into a seven-million-dollar cleaning empire. After Debbie built one of the country's largest maid services in the Dallas area, she began training other cleaning business owners to build and grow their own independent cleaning companies. Debbie also shares with Yvette her passion in helping others with her non-profit, Cleaning For A Reason, which has provided free house cleaning services to over 50,000 families with cancer. 

In part 1 of this 2-hour interview, "Conspiracies in the Cleaning Industry with Ed Selkow", Ed shared an incredible 50-year career in our industry. He shares so many great stories and lessons that will help you in your business. Ed also shared some incredible criminal stories that I called "conspiracies" that are a must listen! In this episode, we dive into the second half our interview. Ed shares the past, present, and future of the cleaning industry. Do you want to grow with the industry? There are predictions and recommendations that Ed suggests. Here's a few notes from the interview."You've got to be honing your skills, expanding on what you know how to do.""Where there are a whole bunch of companies that are missing, that's an opportunity for me."Why are so many new cleaning companies starting out post pandemic. "Desperation drives a lot of people to start cleaning businesses because it costs so little to start. It's possible to grow a cleaning company with no money, but it's also possible to walk from NYC to LA!""Commercial real estate is the mother's milk of the industry." Ed explains that if no developmental growth is happening, cleaners are just trading accounts around as there is a finite amount of buildings to clean.Find the country economic people for networking to learn when and where new buildings are coming. Ed believes this is a huge opportunity and better than the Chamber of Commerce.The disinfection revenue explosion will normalize like previous fads.Ed gets into the intersection of "Big Data" and "The Internet of Things" (sensors),  for computer models of building traffic to determine how much cleaning has to happen. This could become cleaning-on-demand.The increase in technology will drive cleaning prices down over time. This is what happens with every industry that technology improves. Robotics are one of these advances. For example, there are robots that can empty deskside trash cans. Couple this with cleaning-on-demand technology, and cleaning revenues will likely go down. Ed is predicting this so we can get ahead of it.Winning cleaning companies will be the ones that combine of technology and open systems for cleaning.Ed highly recommends that we all understand Seth Godin's book, "Tribes". Those that understand this mindset will survive the future.Ed highly recommends that we, as building contractors, link up with the BSCAI (Building Services Contractors Association International) as our professional trade association. They are dedicated to the services versus the manufacturers (ISSA). They were also influential to getting the cleaning industry labeled as "essential" to get us back to work during the pandemic.You can find Ed Selkow at Janitorial Growth Solutions and on multiple social media outlets.Check out my interview with the CBF Founder, entitled "A Buffalo Charges the Storm with Debbie Sardone". Debbie is offering free consultations to listeners of this show through the Smart Cleaning School Resources Page to see if CBF could be the right solution for you. 

I was in Dallas with my son for a podcasting conference in August. It was a blast, especially hanging out with my son. We stayed at the downtown Sheraton, which afforded us the ability to walk the city a bit. I also had the opportunity to connect in person with two former guests of the Smart Cleaning School. I went to lunch with Greg Shepard from "Sail Around the World". We had a blast walking around the city and enjoying a quality Mexican meal. Greg is a friend and definitely a mentor. He stretches me big time. The day after lunch with Greg, I had a personal tour and breakfast with Debbie Sardone from "A Buffalo Charges the Storm". Debbie is highly regarded coach in the residential cleaning industry as well as a friend and mentor. Back to my son and walking Dallas. I really, really wanted to visit Dealey Plaza. As a kid, I was enamored with the movie "JFK" starring Kevin Costner. The movie makes a compelling case for a second gunman on the grassy knoll. I have seen the Zapruder film so many times, that I already felt like I've been there. I was wrong. Being there was different. Kenny and I walked into Dealey Plaza. I was in awe. He knew more about the Lincoln assassination than Kennedy, so I described it as best I could. That's when I noticed a guy with a bike helmet and bike showing the Zapruder film and explaining the details of the assassination. Kenny and I walked over to listen. We stood on Elm Street in front of the old Texas State Book Depository as he pointed to the 6th floor corner window. The window is half open with boxes arranged exactly as they were in crime scene photographs. He paused the video on his phone and pointed to the first large "X" on Elm Street. This is where JFK was struck the first time in the neck. He played the Zapruder film. We could see Kennedy grab his neck. It was too surreal. He kept the film running as JFK was struck with the kill shot. He pointed to the second "X" on Elm Street. "On November 22nd, 1963, that's where an American President was assassinated." Chilling. We thanked him for his history lesson and walked the plaza. We stood on the "X" and took a picture. We stood on the grassy knoll and took a picture. We stood where Abraham Zapruder took the movie and yep, we took a picture. It was much, much different in real life. Dealey Plaza is virtually unchanged in 59 years. History is powerful, especially when we can be there in person.There's a reason I shared this story. In the early 1960's, John F. Kennedy was beloved and respected. He was a member of the Democrat Party and generally regarded to have political views left of center. He considered himself a Liberal, yet he opposed Communism, supported the 2nd Amendment, and voted for tax cuts. Those were positions held by the Democrat Party then. Today, these same policy beliefs would be called Republican. Here's what I find interesting. If JFK were running for office right now, he would likely be a moderate Republican. This is not my opinion. You can search it online and read for yourself. That's not the point of this podcast. Here's the point. JFK didn't change. How could he. He's been dead for 59 years. What did change? Now we're asking the right question. It's called the Overton Window and I find it fascinating.Read the rest of this article at the Smart Cleaning School website

I have a few stories to tell you and I won't take much of your time because your time is worth a lot! The first one is about a little boy who desperately wanted time with his Daddy. The second is about a Daddy who desperately wanted time with his little boy. This second story lead to the creation of a metric I've used in my business for a decade. It's called the Work Day Value (WDV). What are you earning for a day away from your family? Or what are you earning per hour working away from your family nights and weekends as a side hustle. It's okay to make $25 - $30 per hour as a beginner with a plan to grow. But if your still there after a year, you're losing time that you'll never get back. What is your work day value? What is your time worth because you are trading it for time with your little boy. Some of you will feel that question more than others.The third story happened when I was pumping gas at Wawa. There was a problem at the pump and one of the workers came out to help a customer. At the end of the exchange, the employee said to the customer. "Sorry it took too long to get to you. The customer. It's okay. Hey I'm getting paid." The customer was on company time and had an hourly mindset. It doesn't matter how long it takes to wait at the gas station because he's getting paid by the hour. This man was in his sixties and had a lifetime of job mentality. There's nothing wrong with this at all. But it's limiting and scarce. Here's what I mean. As he stands around doing nothing at the pump for his $30, $40, or $100 per hour, he's fully satisfied. What if he thought differently? What if he valued his hour at $500 or $5,000? There are plenty of people that make that kind of money. He would no longer be satisfied at the level of income he's earning in one hour now. If he was getting paid by the job he'd be very unsettled because he realized he be wasting time. He'd want the Wawa employee to get him filled up and out of there faster. If he was getting $250 to get a job done, he'd rather have it done in 1 hour versus 10. Standing at that gas pump would drive him crazy. The mindset is totally different.How much do you value your time? How much is your day worth? I don't want to ever leave my family and exchange it for something that is not satisfactory for me. Some food for thought. This works for your compensation for your team and how you charge your customers. It applies to what you might do outside of cleaning. There's so many things you can offer others for other income. Don't ever settle and say you're getting paid as you're standing around doing nothing! Go make a difference and go add value to others and you'll get paid in direct proportion of the value that you serve other people. This was always the hardest part for me. I asked myself this question. How much is my family worth today? I didn't want to bring home peanuts when they were worth gold bars!Would you like more information on CBF and the potential of growing your residential cleaning business beyond 7 figures? Check out my interview with the CBF Founder, entitled "A Buffalo Charges the Storm with Debbie Sardone". Debbie is offering free consultations to listeners of this show through the Smart Cleaning School Resources Page to see if CBF could be the right solution for you. 

This week on the show we welcome Debbie Sardone, from humble beginnings as a cleaner, transformed her job into a seven million dollar empire with Buckets & Bows Maid Service, Inc. She now leads the world's #1 Residential Cleaning Business Academy, CLEANING BUSINESS FUNDAMENTALS, and owns SPEEDCLEANING.COM, crafting her line of eco-friendly products. Debbie's philanthropic endeavors include founding Cleaning For A Reason, aiding over 50,000 families battling cancer. A renowned speaker and author, she's been featured on Fox & Friends, Oprah, and recognized with prestigious awards like L'Oreal Paris Women Of Worth and Points of Light Award.

EPISODE 48: Many of us are making mistakes in cleaning our homes, and it could be hurting our home—and even our health. Yikes! Cleaning expert Debbie Sardone joins The Housing Muse Podcast to tell us the right way to clean.  Here's some extra incentive in why you should want to: A clean home makes YOU look good. Seriously! A new study from the American Cleaning Institute finds that 60% of Americans say they feel more attracted to their partner when they take the initiative to clean the house. And, college students say they'll break up with a date if they find they live in a “dirty” home. So, save your relationship and tune in for some deep cleaning hacks!   Read my article at Houselogic.com: How to Deep Clean Your Home for Spring—or Any Time https://www.houselogic.com/organize-maintain/cleaning-decluttering/how-to-deep-clean-your-home/   Learn more about our special guest, Debbie Sardone: https://www.housingmuse.com/guests/debbie-sardone/    Visit the Housingmuse.com for more episodes, blog posts & extras … https://www.housingmuse.com/   What's “hot” or “not” in home design? Follow the Housing Muse on Instagram @housingmuse to weigh in: https://www.instagram.com/housingmuse

➡️How to Power Your BrandAre you a medical entrepreneur who wants to be known by using unconventional marketing strategies? Then this episode is for you. In this episode you will learn how to power your brand without breaking the bank. It will not only make you uniquely known in your field, it will also make you feel good at the same time. Key Takeaways:Intro  (00:00)Cleaning for a reason history (00:50)How to standout in a crowded market (02:09)How to get started without risking your business (08:56)The last thing entrepreneur must do (11:52)The nice selling proposition (18:27)Practical example to follow (22:24)The right time to make your giving  public  (26:56)The best way to make your advocacy known (30:58)Debbie's recommendation (33:01)How to connect with Debbie (35:48)What to post on social media (37:26)Marketing strategy that will make you feel good (39:32)Medical Entrepreneur is a podcast dedicated to those who are trying to escape mainstream medicine and start building the healthcare business of their dreams.Subscribe on YouTube or follow us on your favorite podcast platform!

 At 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 first of multiple lunches where the lunch itself became secondary with who would get the privilege to pay for it! The next 4 episodes are a fun replay from this Smart Cleaning School humor. Enjoy!  Before we end, I would like to thank our podcast sponsor. Are you a residential company with a team wanting to scale your house cleaning company on your own to 7-figures and beyond? You can do this, but why would you try. Debbie Sardone shared her proven system to getting residential cleaning owners to 7-figures faster, with more profit, and better, career cleaners in "CBF Success Stories with Debbie Sardone and Friends". I highly recommend CBF to any residential cleaning company looking to scale to 7 figures. Check out the Smart Cleaning School's CBF Exclusive Deal. Get Debbie's impactful "Succeeding on First Time Cleans" for 50% OFF and a free CBF discovery call with Debbie or one of her certified CBF Coaches! Just go to smartcleaningschool.com/resources and you'll find "Featured Sponsor" at the top of the page. If you want to scale your residential cleaning business to a million dollars, get CBF now!​As we begin 2023, I want you all to know where I am putting my energy. #1. I am growing our local cleaning company, C3 in the Philly Area. #2. I am helping solo cleaners optimize their solo business to earn full time income through part time cleaning without the drama of employees! Get access to this game-changing training for only $57 per month or $597 per year in the Solo Elite Membership at smartcleaningschool.com/elite. Members get access to the full ISO Model Course to optimize your solo business, plus access to the Solo Elite Community, bonus podcast content, access to private coaching and additional courses at 50% off! You can also sample the membership with our brand new "Backstage Pass", which is found at smartcleaningschool.com. 

Hey there! Biz Nerds! Throwback Episode Alert! Debbie Sardone and Jeannie Homrich Henderson are in the house tonight for a special WINE NIGHT! Talking about how to get past the sticky points in business and level up! This is a PG13 / R-rated show kind of, so enjoy at your own discretion, but definitely enjoy! In this episode, we dive into a whirlpool of business escapades and entrepreneurial rollercoasters that could give even the most daring thrill-seekers a run for their money. We unravel the tales of two dynamic business divas on a business rollercoaster and the ingenious lessons they managed to scrape off even in the stickiest situations. And if you're looking to hire a team, we spill the beans on the top-secret formula for finding employees so good, they could sell air to a balloon. We also take a moment to soak in Dan's wizardry as a bookkeeper who has turned entrepreneurs' financial chaos into symphonies of success, one balanced spreadsheet at a time. Get ready to laugh, gasp, and ponder as we dive into the epic chronicles of business battles, triumphs, and the occasional sticky situation." To learn more about BlueSkies Admin Services, visit: https://yourblueskies.com/

Want to know how to find cleaners for your turnover service? Finding reliable cleaners for your Airbnb or VRBO can be a daunting task. Join cleanfluencer Angela Brown as she talks to cleaning industry icon Debbie Sardone about tips for hiring professional cleaners, communicating expectations, and matching Airbnb review standards. Learn insider advice on finding cleaners who will maintain your 5-star ratings. And find out more about Debbie's Speed Cleaning products, perfect for vacation rental cleaners and guests.  Tune in weekly for the latest cleaning tips and strategies, including best practices for turnover cleaning, move-in, move-out, make-ready, and end-of-tenancy cleaning. Angela is also the founder of Savvy Cleaner Training and Certification, available in 191 languages and popular in 37 countries, helping cleaners improve their skills and service worldwide.  HOW TO FIND CLEANERS FOR YOUR TURNOVER SERVICE CHAPTERS ----------------- 0:00 - What is turnover service, and why is it essential for Airbnb Debbie's vacation rental owners? 0:23 - Why might hosts consider outsourcing their cleaning for turnover service instead of doing it themselves? 2:19 - Do cleaners need to be bonded and insured? 2:59 - In what ways does communication play a significant role in ensuring a cleaning company meets the host's expectations? 3:20 - What do you suggest for hosts who want to ensure that a cleaning company understands their specific preferences for staging and finishing touches? 4:10 - How does the cleaning standard for Airbnb differ from traditional cleaning standards, and why is this important for finding the right cleaner? 4:48 - What are the potential consequences of basing the choice of a cleaning service solely on price?  6:00 - What steps can hosts take to ensure their chosen cleaning company understands their specific needs and issues from previous reviews? 6:52 - What cleaning products do you recommend for Airbnb hosts, both for cleaning professionals and guests? 7:29 - What are the safety aspects of leaving cleaning products for guests to use?  7:46 - Where can viewers find more information about the recommended cleaning products and explore their options? LEARN MORE ABOUT DEBBIE SARDONE ----------------- Debbie's Coaching - www.debbiesardone.com Speed Cleaning Products - www.speedcleaning.com RESOURCES ------------------ It Needs to be Perfect - Mastering the Vacation Rental Cleaning Business - https://amzn.to/32xjxwr. Airbnb For Dummies - https://amzn.to/2N94XI2 Airbnb Business: The New Up-to-Date Guide to Become a Successful Airbnb Superhost - https://amzn.to/3kEr7UC Airbnb A to Z: Cleaners and hosts - https://amzn.to/2NTkBqh Optimize YOUR Bnb: The Definitive Guide to Ranking #1 in Airbnb Search - https://amzn.to/2NRIFtA * When available, we use affiliate links, and as Amazon Associates, we earn on qualifying purchases. SOhere'sEDIA --------------- *** CONNECT WITH ANGELA ON SOCIAL MEDIA ***  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AskAngelaBrown Facebook: https://www.Facebook.com/AskAngelaBrown Twitter: https://Twitter.com/AskAngelaBrown Instagram: https://instagram.com/AskAngelaBrown Pinterest: https://Pinterest.com/AskAngelaBrown Reddit: https://Pinterest.com/AskAngelaBrown Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/AskAngelaBrown TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@askangelabrown Store: https://www.amazon.com/shop/AngelaBrown URL: https://AngelaBrown.com NEED MORE HELP? ------------------- VRBO AIRBNB CLEANING – Cleaning tips and strategies for your short-term rental  https://TurnoverCleaningTips.com  VRBO Cleaning Support Group - https://svy.tips/FBGroup-Airbnb SPONSORSHIPS & BRANDS ------------------- Today's #TurnoverCleaningTips are sponsored by #RealtySuccess in association with #SavvyCleaner, and your host is #AngelaBrown - https://g.page/r/CbMI6YFuLU2GEBI/review *** ADVERTISE WITH US ***  We do work with sponsors and brands. If you are interested in working with us and you have a product or service that makes sense for the Airbnb, Vacation Rental, Short-Term Rental, or House Hacking space, here's how to work with us -https://savvycleaner.com/brand-deals *** SAVVY CLEANER BRANDS ***  SAVVY CLEANER - House Cleaner Training and Certification – https://savvycleaner.com/join VRBO AIRBNB CLEANING – Cleaning tips and strategies for your short-term rental  https://TurnoverCleaningTips.com  FUNNY CLEANING SHIRTS – Incentive and thank-you gifts for house cleaners and maids. https://FunnyCleaningShirts.com  HOARDING WORLD - Helping you change your relationship with stuff https://HoardingWorld.com REALTY SUCCESS HUB - Helping you sell your home fast https://realtysuccesshub.com CREDITS -------------------------- Show Produced by: Savvy Cleaner: https://savvycleaner.com Show Host: Angela Brown Show Editors: Kristin Ochsner & Jenifer V. Holland Show Producer: Jenifer V. Holland

 I've been looking forward to doing this sales pitch episode for WHY you need to start a solo cleaning company. I have no idea where you are right now as you listen to this episode of the Smart Cleaning School.  You may be sucking wind in your current solo cleaning business and not feeling like this business is fun or exciting. You're feeling overwhelmed, underappreciated, underpaid, and close to quitting. You're working everyday and have nothing to show for it except high-drama clients, stress, and an achy body! You physically can't do it all and you're either afraid of hiring or you absolutely don't want to. Listen closely. I'm speaking to YOU.You may be working a full-time job and need some extra money badly and you don't want a second job. You desperately want to have your own business and earn your way out of the rat race. But then, you hear how I just talked to the first group of solo cleaners and you're doubting whether you could actually make it work? Could I succeed in my own cleaning company? Do I go for it? I know this... I can't stay at this job the rest of my life. I want freedom. I'm speaking to YOU.You may be in the Valley of Despair with a cleaning business creating between $250,000 and $400,000. You have a team, but you're completely swamped with admin, systems, hiring, customer issues, scheduling, you never get time to yourself, your business is a nightmare. To make it even worse, you have nothing to show for it. You want to quit and stop the bleeding. I'm speaking to YOU.These 3 scenarios describes SO many of you out there. Honestly, if you're beyond these issues, you're probably not listening to this podcast! And I'm totally okay with that. I want to serve and have everyone experience the freedom that comes with a properly run cleaning company.There are 2 solutions to each of these inflection points. You can either go big the right way and earn your freedom. Check out the Interview, "CBF Success Stories with Debbie Sardone and Friends". Or, you can stay small and solo and absolutely crush it with $50,000 to $100,000 annual profit cleaning a few days per week without employees or subs or drama. It's called the ISO Model for the Optimized Solo Cleaner. I've already made my sales pitch to residential cleaners that want to scale to 7 figures in previous episodes. Now it's my turn to make my pitch to start solo, get the ISO Model as your playbook, and stay a solo for the coming season of life.I'm ready. The pitcher takes the mound. That's me. I'm ready to toss a series of sales pitches to each scenario of listener WHY you need to become an Optimized Solo Cleaner. First of all, I need to sell you on cleaning. Did you know that cleaning is one of the fastest growing industries right now. Check out "The Cleaning Industry is Exploding". More than 50,000 new cleaning businesses are starting each year in America alone. Cleaning was made essential during the pandemic and was in the forefront of reshaping the country. Cleaning used to be in the background, unglamorous, and unnoticed. Now, it's on many investors and side-hustlers minds as a great business to start. There are 12 "Pros of Solo Cleaning I & II" I shared in the first 2 episodes. Today I have one more pitch to add to these 12 to get you off your butt, get the ISO Model Course and optimize your solo cleaning business! Read the rest of this article at the Smart Cleanin

 Ken continues his interview with Debbie in this surprise episode, where Debbie shares insider teaching from Cleaning Business Fundamentals and brings on 3 CBF success stories. Let's start with a summary of the 6 components of CBF proven success system. If you don't do ALL 6, the system doesn't work. 1.      Owner's Role – You can't clean and do 90-day mop-free formula2.      Unique Money-Mix Profit Formula – Keep it simple. You track 3 main numbers (KPIs) in CBF.3.      Unique Empowered Pay – This attracts and retains "career cleaners" vs. "chronic quitters". This is beyond rare in the industry that has very high turnover.4.      Culture of Quality Employer Training System – This Speed Cleaning training system trains new cleaners efficiently and in scale.5.      Marketing & Branding Client Attraction Blueprint – You need a strategy that stands the test of time versus a tactic that comes and goes. An example of a branding strategy is a cause-based business.  6.      The Math is the Path – The way to wealth is through metrics. 3 numbers matter – customer acquisition cost, profit to the owner, and client attrition.There are 3 main groups (avatars) of residential cleaning service owners that can benefit from CBF.1.      Start-Up to Scale – 50,000+ new cleaning businesses are starting out each year, especially after the pandemic. Most have NO idea what they are doing and fail. Some invest in themselves to learn how to grow a cleaning company. Debbie has many students that didn't want to clean solo and wanted to scale from Day 1. Morris McRae joined us for his CBF Success Story with Maids of a Mission in San Antonio, TX.2.      Solo to Scale – These are cleaners that work by themselves. If they're on their own, they're tired, overwhelmed, and frustrated. They want out. If they're Solo Elite Members with Ken, they are optimized with great profit on a flexible schedule. They are ready to make the jump to a team. Jen Rodgers of Just Peachy Clean in South Daytona, FL joined the podcast as our second CBF Success Story.3.      Despair to Scale – Debbie typically meets these cleaners at the $300 - $400k per year in revenue. They are making no money and wanting to quit. Our Valley of Despair CBF Success Story was Katie Stepp of Katie's Cleaning Service in Manassas, VA.Today's episode was brought to you by Cleaning Business Fundamentals or CBF. Do you want to start a house cleaning business and never have to do the cleaning? Are you a residential solo cleaner wanting to scale your business to earn your freedom? Are you a residential cleaning business trapped in the Valley of Despair with a team but no profit for yourself and close to quitting? Check out the Smart Cleaning School's CBF Exclusive Deal. Get Debbie's impactful "Succeeding on First Time Cleans" for 50% OFF and a free CBF discovery call with Debbie or one of her certified CBF Coaches! Just go to smartcleaningschool.com/resources and you'll find "Featured Sponsor" at the top of the page. If you want to scale your residential cleaning business to a million dollars, get CBF now! 

 It was an honor to interview residential cleaning industry legend Debbie Sardone a second time. At the time of this recording, Debbie's first interview "A Buffalo Charges the Storm" was the third most-downloaded interview of the Smart Cleaning School's 45 published interviews. Debbie really barred all and shared personal stories she's never shared. It was a powerful episode with powerful stories and lessons.  I wanted to re-connect in the beginning of this interview and ask her some follow-up questions on two quotes I loved from her first one. They were."When you are confident in your beliefs, you're not really wavering or shaking in your beliefs. It's much easier to shield off the bullets from your haters... much easier." "Anyone can succeed when it's east, but will you still be standing when it's hard?" Debbie and I really dig into these topics in the first half of this interview. Here are some additional quotes from Debbie that are powerful. "We are all influencers. Some of us have bigger platforms, but we're all influencing somebody for good or for bad. An influencer is neutral." "You do desperate things when your business is a broken mess." "It was the shame of what I did that helped me decide that I will never let my business get me to the point that it gets me to do something that I know is wrong." "Leave people better than you found them. Treat people the way I should treat them, not the way they deserve to be treated." "Learning produces results and results produce confidence."This last quote lead Debbie and I to discuss knowledge versus confidence. We agreed that having more confidence than knowledge is called arrogance. They talk a big game, but have nothing to back it up. The opposite is called Imposter Syndrome. They have more knowledge than confidence and are afraid to speak up as they feel they don't belong. This is equally detrimental to arrogance because it hurts people. The arrogant can lead people into making them worse off. The imposters have the ability to help many, but are afraid to do it. This hurts people because they never actually help them."You need to break the pattern of quitting. Most of the people who quit in business. They go on to quit another business and another business. And when you see people that say they are serial entrepreneurs. Often times, they are serial quitters."Read the rest of this article at the Smart Cleaning School website

 We discuss a wide array of topics in this podcast episode anchored on our belief system. What is the underlying characteristic that has helped Debbie Sardone succeed in each of her businesses? It's her belief and conviction that what she is doing is right and is helping people. This conviction creates the self-confidence to take massive action and the massive  action leads to massive results. It's this simple. You hear this woven all through Debbie's entrepreneurial journey that spans multiple decades. You hear this conviction rise up during the pandemic in the metaphor of the cow and buffalo and in helping cleaning company owners through the Valley of Despair. Here are some quotes from the episode.  "That's when I realized that there is a solution for everything. But you do have to go find it, you need to invest in it, and you need to follow it. And that's what I did. I'm a very good student.""The fear was always worse than the reality. You can borrow my confidence until you have it.""If you believed you could do it, you would pursue it."At the end of the episode, Debbie and I referenced a mutual friend, "It's Grace for a Reason with Kevin Smith".Debbie Sardone is the Founder of several companies including Buckets & Bows Maid Service, Debbie Sardone Consulting, and her non-profit Cleaning for a Reason. Debbie and her team at CBF are offering an incredible deal to listeners of the Smart Cleaning School. Are you scaling a residential cleaning company to $1 million or would you like to learn how? CBF Live is the largest residential cleaning training conference and will give you the boost you want. This event on April 12th, 2023 in Dallas is $697. Go to CBFLive and enter the code "KENHALF" during registration to get half-off the ticket price! 

Debbie Sardone is in the bar dropping tons of gold nuggets and sharing info on the BEST/LARGEST home cleaning convention on the PLANET! In this episode, we dive into all about the upcoming CBF Live event, its intentions, the subjects it will cover, why you should attend, who will gain a lot from it, and more. If you are in the home cleaning space, you MUST attend CBF Live in 2023! Sign Up here: https://themaidcoach.com/event/cbf-live-april-13-15-2023-fort-worth-texas/ To know more about BlueSkies Admin Services, visit: https://yourblueskies.com/

Debbie Sardone is the founder of Cleaning for a Reason, an ISSA Charities program. It all started with a simple phone call from a cancer patient in need. Since then, the program's 1,200 volunteer companies have helped nearly 50,000 cancer patients in their direst moments in time by giving them a little peace of mind that comes with a nice, healthy, clean home. Learn more about Cleaning for a Reason and join the cause today!

ARCSI, the residential arm of ISSA, the worldwide cleaning industry association, is dedicated to improving the standard of professionalism in the residential cleaning industry. How ARCSI got its start and the history behind the association dedicated to house cleaning professionals is the focus of this episode of Straight Talk!Listen and learn from Debbie Sardone, the president of Bucket & Bows Maid Service in Texas, owner at Speed Cleaning, and founder of Cleaning for a Reason, along with Tom Stewart, the CEO of Castle Keepers House Cleaning in South Carolina, and founder and CEO of MaidCentral Software. Both are founding members of ARCSI.

 Have you ever had a customer or an employee that ghosted you and you didn't know why it happened? When this happens early in your business, it really affects your confidence and your heart. Some of you may have had this happen with a first girlfriend or boyfriend.  It makes you question whether you should be doing what you're doing. It's natural. Rejection is very difficult.  By 2016, I had optimized my solo cleaning company after 13 hard years. I was very confident in what I did. Later that year, I started coaching others how to do the same. Rachel was my first coaching client. I helped her every week and it felt great to help someone else. Andrea was my second coaching client. I coached her every week and it also felt great. I was really on to something. Maybe I had found a niche that I loved and also way to create a secondary income from anywhere in the country. That was very exciting! My third coaching client... Let's call him Ron... That's not his real name. I want to keep him anonymous. I coached him two times. Ron was working at a factory and had started a side-hustle cleaning company that he wanted to use to get out of his job. I saw some issues with the way he was building it and gave him some hard advice. After our second call, Ron ghosted me. He never gave a reason and he never responded to any of my follow-ups. I emailed him or messaged him probably 10 times over the next 6 to 12 months. I didn't understand what happened. Since this happened,  have moved on and added more coaching clients. I met Debbie Sardone who encouraged me to create a course. That course is called the ISO Model Course which is included in the Solo Elite Membership still today. We sold that first solo business, moved to PA and did it again. I added a podcast and memberships through the Smart Cleaning School. I scaled the second cleaning company with a team and took my family to Florida for a month.  We're growing and striving to help as many people as possible. But that third customer named Ron ghosting me really affected me early on.I questioned whether I was doing the right thing, or if I was too hard on people, or if I was too easy, or if I was really qualified to be coaching at all? I had to work things out internally and emotionally build my confidence back up. Thankfully,  I was able to help Rachel and Andrea quite a bit, which boosted my confidence. This infamous ghosting happened in March 2017. About a month ago, I decided that I wanted to reach out to every former customer I've had in the coaching business and anything related to Smart Cleaning School memberships. I just sent a simple email checking in with everyone and thanking them for their trust in me and wanting to see how they were doing in their life, family, and business. I sent any email to Ron as well. It was the first contact or follow-up I had done in probably 4-5 years. A month later, I got a free coaching call set up on my calendar. I offer these on my website and mentioned this on my podcast. A guy named Ron booked a call. I looked at the answers to his reasonings for booking the call and it said this. "I just wanted to call and apologize to you."Read the rest of this article at the Smart Cleaning School website

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 Let's wrap up this 2-part interview with my wife Teresa. She is the secret sauce and secret weapon in our family to keeping us healthy. I am excited to share her knowledge, so your families can benefit too.Resources mentioned by Ken & Teresa:Podcast - "The Model Health Show" by Shawn StevensonPodcast - "The Genius Life" by Max LugavereBlog - "The Wellness Mama"Article - "The Proper Way to Make Elderberry Syrup" by the Franklin Institute of WellnessCourses & Blogs - "Cold Care" by Learning HerbsCheck out my interview with the CBF Founder, entitled "A Buffalo Charges the Storm with Debbie Sardone". Debbie is offering free consultations to listeners of this show through the Smart Cleaning School Resources Page  at smartcleaningschool.com/resources to see if CBF could be the right solution for you. 

  I have told this story so many times to friends and on other podcasts over the past 6 years since I've heard it. The Country Preacher teaches a powerful model for decision-making that I have used in the toughest of decisions.  Are you familiar with a Venn Diagram or the overlapping circles? Look it up if you're not familiar. Picture 3 circles overlapping in a way where there are 3 areas where any 2 circles intersect and only 1 area where all 3 circles intersect. Here are the 3 circles the Country Preacher used: Desire - Do you want to do it? Whatever the decision is, do you want to do it. Are you excited about the potential of i t working out? Are you passionate about going that new direction? Open Door - Is the opportunity available right now? Or is the door closed right now?Peace - How do you feel in your spirit about this decision? Does it give you anxiety or total peace?If you have a scenario where you have the desire and the opportunity is open, but there is no peace, do not do it.If you have a scenario where you have the peace and the opportunity is open, but you don't want to do it, do not do it. If you have a scenario where you have the desire and the peace, but the door is closed, do not do it. In this case, pray through the closed door until it opens (if it ever does).Let's use an example of a difficult decision our family faced in 2017. Do we leave 16 years of family and business roots we've forged in Upstate New York and move back home to the Philly Area? And by the way, I heard this message in 2016 and used this decision-making process to make this vital decision. We had a deep desire to go back to our hometown and be with our family. We missed Sunday dinners after church with my Nana and Pop-Pop after 18 years of living in other states. We missed my younger siblings having babies of their own and spending time with them. Yes, we had desire. After much prayer and talking as a family, we felt total peace that this was the right time to go back home. The kids were excited about it. We were excited. Sure, it was stressful to think how it would all work out. But that wasn't up to us to make work. We could only take action on the desire and peace we had. Was there an open door? Flashback. We wanted to go back to Philly just about every year we were in New York. But there wasn't an open door. This time there was. We prayed hard and long about this part. We'd have to sell the cleaning business. I'd have to replace myself as a Royal Rangers leaders. We'd need to find somewhere to live. In October 2017, we got the desire and prayed. In November, we were offered a free place to live with our family of 7 for a year with Teresa's mom. In December 2017, I replaced myself as a Royal Rangers leader. And in January, I took Ian to Dallas to a Debbie Sardone event called Speed Cleaning. Ian decided that he wanted to buy the cleaning business. There was the last part of the door opening. This one was hard as we didn't get the answer right away. We had to take action. The open door came. We've been out of New York for over 4 years now and it seems like a dream that we were ever there.  We are so thankful to be back home. We got to spend Sundays with my Nana and Pop-Pop for 2 years before they both passed. We have been to birthday parties and beach days with my 3 nieces and 1 nephew. We have seen and rebuilt relationships with friends and family members that we haven't seen in years. I am back in a position of leadership with the Royal Rangers and the new cleaning business is growing! This decision has been blessed because we sought after God's Heart on the matter. We made sure there was intersection of desire, an open door, and peace.Read the rest of this article at the Smart Cleaning School website

Debbie Sardone is owner of Buckets & Bows Maid Service and numerous other successful businesses and she is the founder of Cleaning for a Reason, a non-profit organization that provides professional house cleaning services to cancer patients. Debbie joins The 1 Girl Revolution Podcast to share her inspiring life story, how she founded Cleaning for a Reason and the incredible work they do, and so much more.   Debbie had the idea to start Cleaning for a Reason after a life-changing conversation she had with a prospective house cleaning client, who could not afford house cleaning services because she was undergoing treatment for cancer. At that moment, Debbie recognized that no person going through cancer treatment should ever be turned away from her company and instead they would receive free house cleaning services. And that was also the beginning of Cleaning for a Reason.   Cleaning for a Reason is a nonprofit organization that partners with cleaning companies across the United States and Canada, to provide free house cleaning services to cancer patients. Cleaning for a Reason's goal is to remove the burden of house cleaning and allow those recovering from surgery, in active treatment, or in hospice to focus on their health and spending valuable time with their loved ones. Incredible.    Listen to Debbie's inspiring episode of The 1 Girl Revolution Podcast!   In this episode, you'll hear: Debbie's inspiring life story; Debbie's business journey, how she started Buckets & Bows, and her struggles and successes in business; The story of how one conversation changed Debbie's life and led her to start Cleaning for a Reason;  How Cleaning for a Reason has grown and more about the incredible work they do; Debbie's wisdom for women and business owners and entrepreneurs; And so much more. For more on Debbie and Cleaning for a Reason, please visit: www.1girlrevolution.com/debbiesardone

Debbie Sardone, best known as “The Maid Coach” started residential cleaning to earn some pocket cash. She soon discovered, she could make more than just chump change and create financial freedom for her family. Debbie built her business, Buckets and Bows, into one of the top 1% of residential cleaning businesses in the nation, boasting $2.9 mil and more than fifty employees. Debbie has taken that knowledge and now spends every day guiding business owners toward becoming “mop free millionaires”.  In this episode, Debbie explains how to beat the number one problem faced by home service businesses: employee turnover. With decades of experience, she knows a thing or two about retaining her “VIP customers"aka her employees. “We charge what we're worth and we're worth what we charge” In this episode we discuss: 13:13 What most people are missing in their business model 19:45 Why do all the good ones quit? 32:02 What NOT to do during a recession; be a buffalo not a cow Resources from this episode: Debbie's book recommendations: The OG of books The E-Myth by Michael Gerber Must reads by Dan Sullivan The Gap and the Gain and Who Not How Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill Clockwork and Profit First by Mike Michalowicz Traction by Gino Wickman Get help with your business or learn more about Debbie's consulting here. Get involved or recommend someone for Debbie's non-profit service Cleaning For a Reason Guest suggestions? Email me at sid@the8020show.com  Get a copy of Perry Marshall's excellent book 80/20 Sales and Marketing - The Ultimate Guide to Working Less and Making More for one penny plus shipping (we worked out a special deal for our listeners) Just click here   If you like the show, tell your friends, share on social media, subscribe on iTunes (or wherever you listen) and give us a review. Why? Because it will help someone improve their life and business. Thanks!

 Colette is my personal accountant and she closes out a 3-part interview series we did on the Smart Cleaning Tribe. Colette gets into the nitty gritty of what a valuable accountant can do for you.  First of all, she dives into business budgeting and how the business owner and accountant partner to help the business grow and plan for the unexpected. I took Colette's advice from the last episode "Hire Professionals on Day One" I hired an accountant in my second year when we had no money. I purchased insurance on day one. I found an attorney to work with in year two. However, I never had an accountant that does as much as Colette does for us. Beyond business budgeting, Colette explained what tax planning looks like. This is a huge value add your accountant can add for you. She shared some 2022 tax updates and how they may impact each of us at a high level to demonstrate how vital it is for us to have the right tax professional. Make sure to listen to Colette's checklist of what questions we should be asking our accountant when tax planning. Lastly, Colette gives us a checklist to us, the cleaners, on what we need to do on our end to help our accountant help us.Check out my interview with the CBF Founder, entitled "A Buffalo Charges the Storm with Debbie Sardone". Debbie is offering free consultations to listeners of this show through the Smart Cleaning School Resources Page  at smartcleaningschool.com/resources to see if CBF could be the right solution for you. 

 I was in Dallas with my son for a podcasting conference in August. It was a blast, especially hanging out with my son. We stayed at the downtown Sheraton, which afforded us the ability to walk the city a bit. I also had the opportunity to connect in person with two former guests of the Smart Cleaning School. I went to lunch with Greg Shepard from "Sail Around the World". We had a blast walking around the city and enjoying a quality Mexican meal. Greg is a friend and definitely a mentor. He stretches me big time. The day after lunch with Greg, I had a personal tour and breakfast with Debbie Sardone from "A Buffalo Charges the Storm". Debbie is highly regarded coach in the residential cleaning industry as well as a friend and mentor. Back to my son and walking Dallas. I really, really wanted to visit Dealey Plaza. As a kid, I was enamored with the movie "JFK" starring Kevin Costner. The movie makes a compelling case for a second gunman on the grassy knoll. I have seen the Zapruder film so many times, that I already felt like I've been there. I was wrong. Being there was different. Kenny and I walked into Dealey Plaza. I was in awe. He knew more about the Lincoln assassination than Kennedy, so I described it as best I could. That's when I noticed a guy with a bike helmet and bike showing the Zapruder film and explaining the details of the assassination. Kenny and I walked over to listen. We stood on Elm Street in front of the old Texas State Book Depository as he pointed to the 6th floor corner window. The window is half open with boxes arranged exactly as they were in crime scene photographs. He paused the video on his phone and pointed to the first large "X" on Elm Street. This is where JFK was struck the first time in the neck. He played the Zapruder film. We could see Kennedy grab his neck. It was too surreal. He kept the film running as JFK was struck with the kill shot. He pointed to the second "X" on Elm Street. "On November 22nd, 1963, that's where an American President was assassinated." Chilling. We thanked him for his history lesson and walked the plaza. We stood on the "X" and took a picture. We stood on the grassy knoll and took a picture. We stood where Abraham Zapruder took the movie and yep, we took a picture. It was much, much different in real life. Dealey Plaza is virtually unchanged in 59 years. History is powerful, especially when we can be there in person.  There's a reason I shared this story. In the early 1960's, John F. Kennedy was beloved and respected. He was a member of the Democrat Party and generally regarded to have political views left of center. He considered himself a Liberal, yet he opposed Communism, supported the 2nd Amendment, and voted for tax cuts. Those were positions held by the Democrat Party then. Today, these same policy beliefs would be called Republican. Here's what I find interesting. If JFK were running for office right now, he would likely be a moderate Republican. This is not my opinion. You can search it online and read for yourself. That's not the point of this podcast. Here's the point. JFK didn't change. How could he. He's been dead for 59 years. What did change? Now we're asking the right question. It's called the Overton Window and I find it fascinating.Read the rest of this article at the Smart Cleaning School website

 I am a listener to the Tim Ferriss Podcast and have been for years. I don't relate with every episode, but some of them really move me to action and inspire me. Here are some examples. Kelly Slater taught me to be humble. Hugh Jackman inspired me to utilize the rowing machine in my workouts! Chris Bosh showed me that my problems aren't that big! In this episode, Elizabeth Gilbert taught me the Art of the Simple No. So many of us struggle with the two-letter word no. It's hard to say. We feel that we need to explain ourselves whenever we decide to use it. Statistically, 32% of all people tested with the DISC Profile are the S-Type for Steadiness. An S-Type person is very loyal, a great listener, easy to talk to, even keel, reliable, and generally tends to be a people-pleaser. Therefore, 1/3 of us out there already have a difficult time saying no. I once heard this and it floored me. "No is a complete sentence." This is exactly what Elizabeth Gilbert is talking about in this clip from the Tim Ferriss Show. The full show is linked in the show notes. I highly recommend the video version available on YouTube so you can see Elizabeth's body posture and gestures as she explains the Simple No. Here's my question. How can you implement this strategy into your life? Would it make your relationships strained? Would it give you more time as you'd be saying no more often? I pondered these questions myself and have been more intentional to place a higher value on my time. I hope you do too. Check out my interview with the CBF Founder, entitled "A Buffalo Charges the Storm with Debbie Sardone". Debbie is offering free consultations to listeners of this show through the Smart Cleaning School Resources Page  at smartcleaningschool.com/resources to see if CBF could be the right solution for you.

 After 12 years of solo cleaning, I ventured into the world of online coaching and courses in this amazing industry. Andrea McCoy was my second one-to-one coaching client. We talked for an hour every week for over a year as she was getting her business started. I interviewed her in the summer of 2019 as I was preparing to launch this podcast. Andrea definitely edified me as a coach, but that's not why I aired her interview as the 3rd episode of this podcast in October 2019. I loved her Why and her message. Andrea just wanted a business that would provide peace of mind for her large family. Peachy Clean out of St. George, UT has provided that for her over these last several years. I wanted to re-share this episode to newer listeners. Andrea's interview is still ranked in the Top 10 of all Smart Cleaning School podcast episodes in total downloads.Check out my interview with the CBF Founder, entitled "A Buffalo Charges the Storm with Debbie Sardone". Debbie is offering free consultations to listeners of this show through the Smart Cleaning School Resources Page  at smartcleaningschool.com/resources to see if CBF could be the right solution for you. 

 It is so critical for each one of us to align or be congruent with how people see and perceive us as a business person in our communities. Before there was an online aspect of doing business, all we had to do was be out in the community building valuable relationships and adding value wherever we could.  This got us referred. Our branding was all about who we were and what we did in person in the community. In the early 2000's, websites started becoming a prominent branding component for cleaning companies along with Google, Yahoo, and even (dare I say it) MySpace. Social media then erupted on the scene in the 2010's and now our online branding may be the most important side of our branding.  The reality is that for most cleaning companies, more and more people are finding us through our online branding first. I want to keep this episode short and sweet. There's two scenarios that can happen: Scenario 1: Great In-Person, Bad Online - Your in person branding is awesome. You can easily convert prospects into new clients and people want to be around you and refer you because of your overall level of service and excellence. But your online presence and branding is terrible or maybe just okay. I have a friend from my local networking group with this exact scenario. You'd meet him in person or at a networking group or see his work and think how amazing he is and how impressed you are. But then you search for him online and you're less than impressed. This is a huge opportunity for this business owner to get congruent and have their online align with their in-person brand. You have an online marketing issue. It's easily corrected with the right professional help.Scenario 2: Great Online, Bad In-Person -  Your online branding is amazing. You are attracting a TON of interested prospect customers and employees. But your in-person branding is not. When these prospects meet you after seeing your website and online social media, they are less than impressed. You are not true to what people perceived of you online. Either your character is not good or your business savvy is not good in person. It's possible that you're just not good with people. Whatever it is, you do not align with your online brand. This is a bad scenario as you will lose almost most of the prospects that meet you. Eventually, your online brand will crumble as well. This is not a marketing issue. It's a character or personal growth issue. This is not easily corrected. You need a coach! If you're in this scenario right now, you have to make up the gap as fast as possible. You've got to be perceived online and in-person the same.Let's all get brutally honest. Which scenario are you in right now? Do you need to increase your online or in-person impression? Decide and take action!Check out my interview with the CBF Founder, entitled "A Buffalo Charges the Storm with Debbie Sardone". Debbie is offering free consultations to listeners of this show through the Smart Cleaning School Resources Page to see if CBF could be the right solution for you. 

 In part 1 of this 2-hour interview, "Conspiracies in the Cleaning Industry with Ed Selkow", Ed shared an incredible 50-year career in our industry. He shares so many great stories and lessons that will help you in your business. Ed also shared some incredible criminal stories that I called "conspiracies" that are a must listen! In this episode, we dive into the second half our interview.  Ed shares the past, present, and future of the cleaning industry. Do you want to grow with the industry? There are predictions and recommendations that Ed suggests. Here's a few notes from the interview."You've got to be honing your skills, expanding on what you know how to do.""Where there are a whole bunch of companies that are missing, that's an opportunity for me."Why are so many new cleaning companies starting out post pandemic. "Desperation drives a lot of people to start cleaning businesses because it costs so little to start. It's possible to grow a cleaning company with no money, but it's also possible to walk from NYC to LA!""Commercial real estate is the mother's milk of the industry." Ed explains that if no developmental growth is happening, cleaners are just trading accounts around as there is a finite amount of buildings to clean.Find the country economic people for networking to learn when and where new buildings are coming. Ed believes this is a huge opportunity and better than the Chamber of Commerce.The disinfection revenue explosion will normalize like previous fads.Ed gets into the intersection of "Big Data" and "The Internet of Things" (sensors),  for computer models of building traffic to determine how much cleaning has to happen. This could become cleaning-on-demand.The increase in technology will drive cleaning prices down over time. This is what happens with every industry that technology improves. Robotics are one of these advances. For example, there are robots that can empty deskside trash cans. Couple this with cleaning-on-demand technology, and cleaning revenues will likely go down. Ed is predicting this so we can get ahead of it.Winning cleaning companies will be the ones that combine of technology and open systems for cleaning.Ed highly recommends that we all understand Seth Godin's book, "Tribes". Those that understand this mindset will survive the future.Ed highly recommends that we, as building contractors, link up with the BSCAI (Building Services Contractors Association International) as our professional trade association. They are dedicated to the services versus the manufacturers (ISSA). They were also influential to getting the cleaning industry labeled as "essential" to get us back to work during the pandemic.You can find Ed Selkow at Janitorial Growth Solutions and on multiple social media outlets.Check out my interview with the CBF Founder, entitled "A Buffalo Charges the Storm with Debbie Sardone". Debbie is offering free consultations to listeners of this show through the Smart Cleaning School Resources Page to see if CBF could be the right solution for you. 

As told by Debbie Sardone, the founder of Cleaning for a Reason, an ISSA Charity program, Tyler Perry is a comedian and actor she has never seen in a television show or movie, yet she loves him for his giving attitude. In this episode of Straight Talk!, learn how Tyler Perry paid off lay-a-ways for families in need and how Debbie focused in on how a giving attitude can be infectious. The story she shares is inspirational to anyone who wants to give to others.

I have a few stories to tell you and I won't take much of your time because your time is worth a lot! The first one is about a little boy who desperately wanted time with his Daddy. The second is about a Daddy who desperately wanted time with his little boy. This second story lead to the creation of a metric I've used in my business for a decade. It's called the Work Day Value (WDV). What are you earning for a day away from your family? Or what are you earning per hour working away from your family nights and weekends as a side hustle. It's okay to make $25 - $30 per hour as a beginner with a plan to grow. But if your still there after a year, you're losing time that you'll never get back. What is your work day value? What is your time worth because you are trading it for time with your little boy. Some of you will feel that question more than others. The third story happened when I was pumping gas at Wawa. There was a problem at the pump and one of the workers came out to help a customer. At the end of the exchange, the employee said to the customer. "Sorry it took too long to get to you. The customer. It's okay. Hey I'm getting paid." The customer was on company time and had an hourly mindset. It doesn't matter how long it takes to wait at the gas station because he's getting paid by the hour. This man was in his sixties and had a lifetime of job mentality. There's nothing wrong with this at all. But it's limiting and scarce. Here's what I mean. As he stands around doing nothing at the pump for his $30, $40, or $100 per hour, he's fully satisfied. What if he thought differently? What if he valued his hour at $500 or $5,000? There are plenty of people that make that kind of money. He would no longer be satisfied at the level of income he's earning in one hour now. If he was getting paid by the job he'd be very unsettled because he realized he be wasting time. He'd want the Wawa employee to get him filled up and out of there faster. If he was getting $250 to get a job done, he'd rather have it done in 1 hour versus 10. Standing at that gas pump would drive him crazy. The mindset is totally different.How much do you value your time? How much is your day worth? I don't want to ever leave my family and exchange it for something that is not satisfactory for me. Some food for thought. This works for your compensation for your team and how you charge your customers. It applies to what you might do outside of cleaning. There's so many things you can offer others for other income. Don't ever settle and say you're getting paid as you're standing around doing nothing! Go make a difference and go add value to others and you'll get paid in direct proportion of the value that you serve other people. This was always the hardest part for me. I asked myself this question. How much is my family worth today? I didn't want to bring home peanuts when they were worth gold bars!Would you like more information on CBF and the potential of growing your residential cleaning business beyond 7 figures? Check out my interview with the CBF Founder, entitled "A Buffalo Charges the Storm with Debbie Sardone". Debbie is offering free consultations to listeners of this show through the Smart Cleaning School Resources Page to see if CBF could be the right solution for you. 

 I'll never forget a coaching call I did with a cleaning company owner doing $400k in revenue. I was an optimized solo cleaner and new in coaching. My view of the cleaning business landscapte was very narrow and I had a bit of pride to contend with. Here's the scenario. The co-owners, a husband and wife team, were both working 6 days per week in this $400k revenue company. They weren't cleaning, but lived in their office managing the business. That was foreign to me. Then I heard this part. "Ken, we are profiting $35,000 per year for the family." I clarified by asking how much owner's compensation they pulled. I was assuming they had a salary of $35k and then kept the bottom line profit as well. "$35,000 is our everything." I was floored. How could this possibly be? I responded with snark. "I'm a solo cleaner with 1/6 of your revenue. I work 1/3 as much as you and keep almost double what you do. Something is badly off with the math at your company." I was sharing truth and they knew it. Nevertheless, they didn't like my answer and we never talked again. In "A Buffalo Charges the Storm with Debbie Sardone", Debbie gives this a name. It's called the "Valley of Despair". I did not realize such a valley existed in my narrow view of cleaning business growth curves. I had read the "E-Myth Revisted" and "Clockwork", which are 2 amazing books on developing business systems to scale your company. Yet, I didn't know these valleys existed until an expert series I facilitated on my Smart Cleaning Tribe called "The 7-Figure Series". I interviewed 4 recent 7-figure cleaning business owners in 2021 with questions from the Tribe with the goal of deconstructing the million dollar cleaning company. Each of these experts have allowed me to share snippets of their calls on my podcast. Here are the episodes:  Part 1 with Kevin Smith - "It's Grace for a Reason with Kevin Smith"Part 2 with Juan Chaparro - "Million Dollar Milestones with Juan Chaparro"Part 3 with Josh Melton - "The Cleaning Road to Nineveh with Josh Melton"Part 4 with Molly Moran - "4 Scaling Struggles to 2 Million with Molly Moran"This was totally unplanned, but it turns out that 3 of my 4 experts with new 7-figure businesses are all Cleaning Business Fundamentals students with Debbie Sardone. The 4th is my personal commercial cleaning coach, Josh Melton.  I studied these 4 calls along with the wisdom I've collected from Josh Melton, Debbie Sardone, Ricky Regalado, Crystal Hamm, and others I've been fortunate to study along the way. I don't have these numbers down, nor is this an exact road map. However, I have noticed that the path to 7-figures and beyond is filled with many dead zones aka "Valleys of Despair" and sweet spots. Why do we start a cleaning company? Most of say that we want more time and money.  We want more freedom in our lives to make the choices we want to make when we want to make them. I have noticed many $2 million plus company owners living large in income and time to pursue their passions outside of cleaning. Their business becomes so large and systemitized that they are no longer needed. Many in our industry call this an absentee business. These cleaning company owners ha

 Let's go back to the beginning. This introduction episode is still the most downloaded of the podcast. Thank you for joining me on this journey.Would you like more information on CBF and the potential of growing your residential cleaning business beyond 7 figures? Check out my interview with the CBF Founder, entitled "A Buffalo Charges the Storm with Debbie Sardone". Debbie is offering free consultations to listeners of this show through the Smart Cleaning School Resources Page to see if CBF could be the right solution for you. 

 I was so honored when Kevin called me after crossing the one million dollar mark. That conversation lead to an expert call on the Smart Cleaning Tribe and a podcast interview with Kevin. I took clips of both and created this "best-of" episode. After hearing Kevin's take on stewardship, I completely changed my pronouns as well. It's not MY business. It's HIS business and I'm the steward or manager. That is the major heart shift that propelled Kevin's rise and it's been a major one for us as well. Enjoy this 2-part conversation replay with Kevin Smith of Grace Home Cleaning in Omaha, NE. As I mentioned in the episode, Kevin is a student of Cleaning Business Fundamentals. Would you like  to scale HIS 7-figure company for great income and freedom, check out my interview with the CBF Founder, entitled "A Buffalo Charges the Storm with Debbie Sardone". Debbie is offering free consultations to listeners of this show through the Smart Cleaning School Resources Page to see if CBF could be the right solution for you. 

 About a year ago, I had a conversation with Carrie Miyazono. She is the owner of Kaizen Cleaning in Chanhassen, MN and a Black Belt in taekwondo. Her solo cleaning business is highly niched to clean martial arts dojos. These schools have students sweating up the mats every day of the week. In many cases, the owners are either cleaning themselves or have a staff member do it. Therefore, Carrie found a niche that she could serve with excellence. It was so much fun guiding her to pick up her first gym for $400 per month. But she got discouraged after that as no one new was hiring her service. Carrie was working an overnight job at the time that she desperately wanted to quit to have better pay and hours with her new solo cleaning business.  I helped her mindset with an example she knew well.  I asked. "What's the difference between a white belt and a black belt?" She answered. "Time, commitment, repetitions, and a willingness to suck." I asked her about confidence and technique and she told me that those two are byproducts of the first four. Then she summed it all up. "The difference between the black belt and the white belt is the use of those four things. More time leads to more commitment. More commitment leads to more repetitions. More repetitions leads to  a greater willingness to suck. The cycle self-perpetuates and your technique, form, and confidence increase and so do your belts. Eventually you make black belt."I thought about the sports greats of Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods and their legendary pursuit of practice. When you take 5 shots, you're upset to miss one and may not take too many more. When you take 500 shots, missing 50 or 100 is no big deal because you'll keep shooting. This is what Carrie is talking about. It's the pursuit of becoming highly skilled at your craft. For Michael and Tiger, it was basketball and golf. For Carrie, it was taekwondo.I related to her growing your solo cleaning business through the ISO Model is the exact same way. This first gym that she got is like earning her white belt. It was really hard to get. She was sloppy. Her technique sucked, but she got the job anyway. She didn't get the best price. However she achieved the first belt and now she's ready for the yellow. The yellow is getting another gym to prove she can do it again. Carrie will need to apply the same fundamentals to her cleaning business and she'll eventually become an Optimizer and a black belt in my system. Solo cleaners out there, think about your business like this. Don't expect to start as a black belt. If you like the business and lifestyle that I had as an optimized solo cleaner has, be willing to put in the time, commitment, reps, and willingness to suck that I did in two different states over 16 years. Fortunately for you, the ISO Model Black Belt can be achieved in 2 years with my system. If you don't want to put in the time or commitment or reps, go do something else. But if you are willing jump into the ISO Model through the Solo Cleaning School Elite, you can absolutely earn all of your belts.To those that would like to go beyond my black belt system and become a 5th degree master black belt and scale to a 7-figure company with great income and freedom, check out my interview with the CBF Founder, entitled "A Buffalo Charges the Storm with Debbie Sardone". Debbie is offering free consultations to listeners of this show through the Smart Cleaning School Resources Page to see if CBF could be the right solution for you. 

 I brought Molly Moran onto the Smart Cleaning Tribe in December 2021 as the 4th expert in the 7-Figure Series. Molly started Green Sweep NM in 2009. She lives in Albuquerque, NM. She grew her business to $600k in 6 years with basic systems and a split of 50/50 commercial & residential. Molly decided to sell the commercial side of her company to focus on houses. After 2 more years, she built the residential only portion back to $450k, but she was burnt out! Her business was unsustainable because she had few systems. She was working like crazy and the thought of this business at $1M revenue made her sick as she'd have no life. Molly was scrolling late night on Indeed and Facebook when she stumbled upon Debbie Sardone and CBF. She joined Debbie's coaching program in 2017 as a last-stitch effort to salvage her company and regain her peace of mind. CBF usually helps businesses with $100-$300k businesses get to $1M. Molly was way past that, but needed help. She implemented the necessary systems in a year and turned it around.  Molly grew from $450k to $1.2M in 4 years and closed 2021 closing in on $2M in annualized revenue. Molly has opted to be more top-heavy in admin, to sacrifice profit for time. Others opt to be more involved in the business (less admin) and more profit to the owner. This investment allowed Molly to step away more from her business and today she is a certified CBF Coach and helping others turn their residential cleaning companies around and on-track toward a 7-figure absentee business.  There were many amazing lessons that Molly taught us on this Tribe call. I wanted to extract just a few. The first 15 minutes of this podcast are highlights from Molly's overall business journey and lessons along the way including her decision to join CBF. The last portion of this episode answers a Tribe member's question about her struggles along the way. Molly's answer is delivered in a classroom format, where she systematically unpacks the 4 struggles at 4 distinct revenue levels a cleaning company owner experiences. It is fascinating. Here are some notes from the 4 struggles.First struggle: $300-$400k. You have 8 people with field staff. You're working your face off in your business and you can't afford to hire someone in the office. This is the fist valley of despair. This was a profit issue and needed to hire office staff to grow.Second struggle: $600-700k. She was F/T in the business. This was a people power. You have office staff and need more to get to the next level. There is an insecurity of “is this growth going to continue”? You probably need to add a new admin team member every $300-$350KThird struggle: $1M-$1.2M. The people you start with aren't always the people to get you to the next level. It's a leadership issue. Be very careful with the titles you give people. Using the word manager can limit people. The manager at $500k can't manage at $1M.Fourth struggle: $1.5M-$2M. Capacity. Certain things that scaled at $700k don't scale now. Customer service and technology are examples. The communication log (ComLog) - they track incoming and outgoing conversations with staff and customers. The CommLog is the running text of the day. There used to be 10-15 entries and now there are 40-50 per day. This has not scaled. Check out my interview with the CBF Founder, entitled "A Buffalo Charges the Storm with Debbie Sardone". Debbie is offering free consultations to listeners of this show through the Smart Cleaning School Resources Page to see if CBF could be the right solution for you. 

 We discuss a wide array of topics in this podcast episode anchored on our belief system. What is the underlying characteristic that has helped Debbie Sardone succeed in each of her businesses? It's her belief and conviction that what she is doing is right and is helping people. This conviction creates the self-confidence to take massive action and the massive  action leads to massive results. It's this simple. You hear this woven all through Debbie's entrepreneurial journey that spans multiple decades. You hear this conviction rise up during the pandemic in the metaphor of the cow and buffalo and in helping cleaning company owners through the Valley of Despair. Here are some quotes from the episode.  "That's when I realized that there is a solution for everything. But you do have to go find it, you need to invest in it, and you need to follow it. And that's what I did. I'm a very good student.""The fear was always worse than the reality. You can borrow my confidence until you have it.""If you believed you could do it, you would pursue it."At the end of the episode, Debbie and I referenced a mutual friend, "It's Grace for a Reason with Kevin Smith".Debbie Sardone is the Founder of several companies including Buckets & Bows Maid Service, Debbie Sardone Consulting, and her non-profit Cleaning for a Reason. I am proud to announce that Debbie is also the newest sponsor to the Smart Cleaning School Podcast. Debbie is offering free consultations to listeners of this show through the Smart Cleaning School Resources Page to see if CBF could be the right solution for you. 

Welcome to Flower Mound, Texas - a city with over 82,000 residents, and full of unsung heroes and community leaders. Here on the Around Flower Mound podcast, you'll get a front row seat to my conversations with several of them!I'm your host, Nicole Smith Woodard, and I'm a fifth-generation Texan, DFW area Realtor for 26 years, and proud resident of Flower Mound since 2014. I had the opportunity to talk with so many wonderful guests on Season 1, so give a listen and meet outstanding community contributors like Angie Cox, Kim Cloud, and Lori Walker. As we jump into Season 2, I can't wait to introduce you to the upcoming residents I'll be talking with! They are from different industries and backgrounds, but they each have a story about Flower Mound to share and after hearing them I know you'll love our town even more. Throughout this season you'll also hear me talk about my deep belief that our homes create the chapters in the story of our lives. I'm going to leave you with a challenge to consider the homes and chapters in your own life! But don't worry, I'm sharing a couple examples to show you how it works, and I even created a worksheet to guide you as well.Takeaways from this episode:  Our city is home to many successful professionals and charitable organizations who are making an impact every day.  Our homes create the chapters in the story of our lives - which one are you currently in? Message me and I'll send you the worksheet I created to help you connect the dots between your homes and life chapters. Make sure to subscribe on your favorite podcast platform so you don't miss any upcoming episodes of the Around Flower Mound podcast.  Resources mentioned in this episode:Finding Your Why, with Angie Cox:https://www.aroundflowermound.com/podcast/angie-coxHow A Chamber Of Commerce Can Help Your Business, with Lori Walker:https://www.aroundflowermound.com/podcast/chamber-of-commerceCleaning for a Reason, with Debbie Sardone:https://www.aroundflowermound.com/podcast/debbie-sardoneTo get receive the framework to help you know yourself better, or to know someone deeper, email me:nicole@nicolesmith.netTo listen to previous episodes, and to submit your application as a guest, please visit:https://aroundflowermound.com/

Debbie Sardone turned a cleaning job into a four million dollar cleaning empire. After building one of the largest maid services in the country, Buckets & Bows Maid Service, Inc., she began training other cleaning business owners as well. She now has the #1 Residential Cleaning Business Academy in the world, CLEANING BUSINESS FUNDAMENTALS. Debbie also owns SPEEDCLEANING.COM and manufactures her own line of non-toxic cleaning products, and she is the founder of the nonprofit, Cleaning For A Reason, which has risen to national prominence and has provided free house cleaning services to over 40,000 families with cancer. Debbie's been featured on Fox & Friends, Oprah, Reader's Digest, Today.com, Yahoo! News, as well as, dozens of other local and national media. Time Stamps:  

Earlier this summer, I was talking with my 16-year-old son Kenny about his podcast editing business. I asked him if he'd like to come with me to Nashville for the annual Podcast Movement Conference. He'd have to buy his own ticket obviously. At first he didn't understand why he would even consider it. This lead into a great discussion on networking and why we build relationships with others in our community, online, and nationally. I'll come back to that conversation soon. But first let me ask you, the Smart Cleaning School listener... Are you building relationships in your local community? Did you answer no? Why aren't you doing it as a strategic part of your work week? Is it because you don't believe it's worth your time because it's just more meetings? Allow me to demonstrate with a few stories...Kelly Jones -  Her entire Delaware cleaning empire emerged through local netwoking and serving her network. Listen to her interview, Become a Bridge-Builder for the full story.Alonzo Adams - Check out Be a Lighthouse, Not a Buoy for the full story. Alonzo attended one conference in Las Vegas that lead to a $100k+ cleaning contract!Vincent Pugliese - He attended a mastermind retreat in Nashville when it wasn't convenient at all. He made one connection there with a photographer that turned into a $30k+ ongoing income stream for 2 years.Nick Pavlides - He runs the Ghostwriter School and is a friend that Vincent introduced me to at a conference. Nick is the one that persuaded me to name this podcast with "school". Nick attends conferences regularly and I've heard multiple testimonies of Nick closing $20k ghostwriting packages at conferences he attends!Ken Carfagno - I attended Debbie Sardone's Speed Cleaning conference in Dallas when we were trying to sell our first cleaning business. I had no time or money to attend this at the time. But I brought my friend Ian who was very interested in my company. He saw the vision of what a cleaning business could do in his life and this conference locked in a $80k business sale for my family. It was worth the $1,500 and 4 days invested!Read the rest of this article at the Smart Cleaning School website

Kevin Smith is a close friend of mine. We originally met at a Speed Cleaning conference in Dallas, TX lead by Debbie Sardone. There aren't many men in house cleaning and Kevin is over 6 foot tall. Therefore, it wasn't hard to spot him. We connected right away because of our mutual faith and the way we honor God with our businesses. It's been over 3 years since we met, yet we've stayed connected through text and phone calls. Kevin's company Grace Home Cleaning in Omaha, NE was doing $100k in total revenue. They do over a million now and he shares in this episode a few mindsets which unlock how he was able to do this. The episode is split int 2 parts. The first part is a snippet of an interview I did with Kevin where he talks about his company's foundation on God. He shares a great story of an employee who breaks a house shower door and how he handled it. This story lead into the main takeaway from this interview. Kevin says. "I am steward and God owns Grace Home Cleaning. It's a family here. We keep praying and it's grace for a reason." In the second part of this podcast, I share a clip from our Smart Cleaning Tribe where I hosted Kevin as an expert a few weeks after the interview. During this expert call, there were2 questions that Kevin's answer profoundly impacted our Tribe members. I want to share those two answers with you.If you want to HAVE a million dollar business, act like it now!To endure the hard times, lean on God and your mentors. Both are a choice.Is your cleaning company striving toward a million dollars in annual revenue? Would you like help with your goals, be held accountable to those goals alongside others doing the same as you, and gain access to amazing experts like Kevin? Apply for the Smart Cleaning Tribe!It's grace for a reason. We are Grace Home Cleaning and we're a family. Kevin sees his employees as his kids and his employees see Kevin as their dad.

 This podcast episode releases on the 3-year anniversary of the day I sold my first solo cleaning business. Over these 3 years, so many cleaning company owners have asked me how I did it. So many people told me that you can't sell a solo cleaning business because I just owned a job and a job has no value. I didn't believe them. I'm not going to start this story where it really started for me and that's where God put a dream and vision in my heart to leave Upstate New York and go home to the Philly Area. I want to confine this story to the "How", so you can see the practical steps I took. I had many initial conversations with friends like Billy Altman and John VanderMuelen, who have sold small businesses. I learned a lot and even gained valuable insight into proper expectations. It's hard to get full price. Don't be afraid to do owner-finance and take payments. Use legal documents and document every step of the process. The decision to sell was made in November 2017 and I had to leave NY by late June 2018. That gave me 7-8 months to get it done. I first shopped it around to some cleaning companies after getting a rough valuation of $50,000. One company rejected it after seeing my numbers and signing a non-disclosure agreement. They could get the same number of clients I was selling for less in marketing. One ignored me and one just declined. I sensed early on that another business would not buy mine as it was viewed as a cleaning job. I had to be more creative and package the offer differently. I had to sell a dream and offer it to people looking for what the dream provided. I knew that I had a great dream to offer. I had optimized a cleaning company from 5 days to 2 days per week cleaning and still making $55,000 per year in profit. If all my clients would transition to the new person, I knew this was a great deal for somebody. I just had to find that somebody. I called a few people I thought might be a fit. I could tell they were not the right fit. I considered making a list and what I would say to each person in a script starting with every person in my phone contact list. As I was doing this strategic thinking, I scheduled myself to go to a cleaning conference. I've been to many conferences, but this was my first ever cleaning conference. It was called Speed Cleaning, hosted by industry leader Debbie Sardone.Read the rest of this article at the Smart Cleaning School website

Debbie Sardone is a brand pioneer, creating "first to market" categories in unlikely places. Her nonprofit Cleaning For A Reason (an ISSA Charities program) is the largest cleaning for cancer charity in the world. Debbie turned a cleaning job into a three-million-dollar cleaning empire. After building one of the largest self-running maid services in the country, Buckets & Bows Maid Service, Inc., she began speaking and training other cleaning business owners around the world creating more "Mop-Free Millionaires" than anyone on the planet! Debbie also owns SPEEDCLEANING.COM and manufactures her own line of non-toxic cleaning products. Her nonprofit, Cleaning For A Reason, has risen to national prominence and has provided free house cleaning services to over 50,000 families with cancer. Debbie's been featured on Fox & Friends, Oprah, Reader's Digest, Today.com, Yahoo! News, as well as, dozens of other local and national media. Podcast website: https://www.janitorialmanager.com/the-business-of-cleaning-podcast/ Have questions or interested in being a guest? Email us at Marketing@DoubleASolutions.net.

On this week’s episode of Around Flower Mound, we speak to a very special Flower Mound resident, my close friend, Debbie Sardone, who turned a cleaning job into a $3 million cleaning empire. After building one of the largest maid services in the country, Buckets and Bows, she began speaking and training other cleaning business owners around the world.

The Lewisville Area Chamber of Commerce talks to Debbie Sardone, owner of Buckets and Bows Maid Service in Lewisville.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Debbie Sardone- Founder of Cleaning for a Reason-A non-profi organization of people who cleans houses of people suffering from Cancer.

After over 20 years in the lawn care & snow removal industry, Mike Callahan created a turnkey solution that revolutionized his business and is now teaching the lessons he learned while growing his company. You do not have to reinvent the wheel when you can use this proven system that will save you time and money, while allowing you to have a life outside your business. Are you ready to make your business work for you? Our business growth system will grow your business from where you are to today to where you want to be in the future. If you want a proven system that will help you avoid the pains of running a business by giving you a road map to business success each step of the way, this is for you! Where Is Your Business Right Now? SimpleGrowth is the ONLY solution in the lawn care industry that will empower and support you through every level of business growth with a proven system and process that will net real results. If you are sick and tired of a one size fits all attempt to help you grow the business of your dreams, then look no further. Our system will allow you to build a profitable business from day one by following a proven business building system. We've found working with our clients that today's business owners are in one of the four phases of their business. Check our 4 Stages of Business Growth to determine which of the stages best describes where your business is right now. Regardless which phase you are in, Simple Growth has a proven system to fit your business that will catapult you to your next stage. To create a business that doesn't own you, and that provides a quality of life you went into business to create for yourself, listen to learn more about the steps you need to take to help you get there. Consider this more of a free mentorship, where I help you focus on the activities and systems that are necessary for you to reach your goals. I've done it. I can help you do it. I'll also be providing interviews with other leaders in our industry that have cracked the code of life and time freedom owning their own service industry business. If you are looking to grow your business with a road map to success and profits, join me here every week. Try out our Estimator Chatbot Check out our resources below. www.startsimplegrowth.com __________ Say hi on social: Facebook: Click Here Instagram: Click Here LinkedIn: Click Here Listen to Mike Callahan on the SimpleGrowth iTunes: Google Play: Spotify: Listen Now MENTORSHIP with Mike Callahan Contact: mike@simplegrowthsystems.com SPEAKING INQUIRIES for MIKE CALLAHAN Contact: mike@simplegrowthsystems.com

The Juno Summit is a fundraiser for Juno Smith who has B-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. Liz Trotter joins us with details about one of the largest events on tap for the house cleaning industry. April 23-25, 2020 in Fort Collins, Co. The Juno Summit is a power-packed few days with house #cleaning rock stars like Debbie Sardone, John Braun, Brandon Vaughn, and Elena Ledoux. Speaking and imparting wisdom are Meaghan Likes, Curt Kempton, Martha Woodward, and Tom Stewart. Also, on stage are Greg Shepard, Stacie McMillian, Heather Gilch Canning, and Alonzo Adams. Among the best of the best are Chad Henley, Rohan Gilkes, Kedma Ough, Ajia Holiday and Laura Lambert Smith (whose daughter is Juno). Don't miss this one of a kind event designed to inspire, and guide you in your business while helping lift another up. *** YOU CAN PARTICIPATE HERE *** SEND CARDS TO: Juno Smith c/o All Star Cleaning, 120 W Saturn Dr, Fort Collins, CO 80525 SEND DONATIONS TO PAYPAL – loveindiee@gmail.com CONTRIBUTE TO GOFUNDME – https://www.gofundme.com/f/juno-summit ATTEND THE JUNO SUMMIT – https://JunoSummit.com *** MORE VIDEOS ON THIS TOPIC *** What is Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL)? - Boston Children's Hospital - https://youtu.be/BeOmtJHxyXU What is Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia? (Blood & Bone Cancer) - Healthery - https://youtu.be/JQ6t9zEgxFw Treatment of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) - Medicosis Perfectionalis - https://youtu.be/SBDZtArHViE What Is Leukemia? | Cincinnati Children's - https://youtu.be/qYwHLfbGfF4 What is Leukemia? Dr. Guillermo de Angulo explains. - Nickulaus Children's Hospital - https://youtu.be/IYJa0_FnjV8   *** GOOD KARMA RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE *** These good karma links connect you to Amazon.com and affiliated sites that offer products or services that relate to today’s show. When you click on the links and buy the items you pay the exact same prices or less than if you found the links on your own elsewhere. The difference is that we make a small commission here at the show for sharing these links with you. So, you create good karma by supporting 8 families who work on this show. Facing Cancer as a Friend: How to Support Someone who has Cancer - https://amzn.to/38ifkA7 The Living Kitchen: Healing Recipes to Support Your Body During Cancer Treatment and Recovery - https://amzn.to/38gtuS1 Loving Your Friend Through Cancer: Moving Beyond "I'm Sorry" to Meaningful Support - https://amzn.to/2uzHgRh It's OK That You're Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn't Understand - https://amzn.to/38fNAff It's Not Supposed to Be This Way: Finding Unexpected Strength When Disappointments Leave You Shattered - https://amzn.to/39q5k84   *** CONNECT WITH LIZ TROTTER HERE*** https://castle-keepers.com/cki *** CONNECT WITH ANGELA ON SOCIAL MEDIA *** LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/savvycleaner/ Facebook: https://Facebook.com/SavvyCleaner Twitter: https://Twitter.com/SavvyCleane Instagram: https://Instagram.com/SavvyCleaner Pinterest: https://Pinterest.com/SavvyCleaner *** GOT A QUESTION FOR A SHOW? *** Email it to Angela[at]AskaHouseCleaner.com Voice Mail: Click on the blue button at https://askahousecleaner.com *** HOUSE CLEANING TIPS VAULT *** (DELIVERED VIA EMAIL) - https://savvycleaner.com/tips *** FREE EBOOK – HOW TO START YOUR OWN HOUSE CLEANING COMPANY *** http://amzn.to/2xUAF3Z *** PROFESSIONAL HOUSE CLEANERS PRIVATE FACEBOOK GROUP *** https://www.facebook.com/groups/ProfessionalHouseCleaners/ *** VRBO AIRBNB CLEANING FACEBOOK GROUP *** https://www.facebook.com/groups/VRBO.Airbnb.Cleaning/ *** LOOKING FOR WAY TO GET MORE CLEANING LEADS *** https://housecleaning360.com *** SPONSORSHIPS & BRANDS *** We do work with sponsors and brands. If you are interested in working with us and you have a product or service that is cohesive to the cleaning industry read this: https://savvycleaner.com/product-review *** THIS SHOW WAS SPONSORED BY *** SAVVY CLEANER - House Cleaner Training and Certification – https://savvycleaner.com MY CLEANING CONNECTION – Your hub for all things cleaning – https://mycleaningconnection.com HOUSECLEANING360.COM – Connecting House Cleaners with Homeowners – https://housecleaning360.com SAVVY PERKS – Employee Benefits for Small Business Owners – https://savvyperks.com VRBO AIRBNB CLEANING – Cleaning tips and strategies for your short-term rental https://TurnoverCleaningTips.com *** VIDEO CREDITS *** VIDEO/AUDIO EDITING: Kristin O https://savvycleaner.com/reviews/kristin-o HOST: Angela Brown https://savvycleaner.com/reviews/angela-brown PRODUCER: Savvy Cleaner https://savvycleaner.com  

What are you already doing right that will help you grow your cleaning business? Top Cleaning Business Growth expert, Debbie Sardone discusses three areas to improve upon in order to increase your maid service's profitability. Debbie, also known as The Maid Coach, helps cleaning business owners turn their job into a dream. Nationwide, she has been the guide for many maid service owners looking to turn their "mom and pop" into a 7-figure company. Read the blog post at: www.zenmaid.com/magazine/grow-your-maid-service-with-the-right-mindset/ This awesome talk was just one of 44 expert talks shown in the Maid Summit - the first & online virtual conference for Maid Services. Watch the other talks here: https://maidsummit.com

Two years ago, my friend in the cleaning coaching world, Debbie Sardone, referred Marcia Davidson to me. Marcia was not ready to scale her business and needed my help in making her solo company extremely profitable. Marcia struggled as a single mom for the entire time, trying to hold onto $15/hour temp jobs to pay the bills. She desperately wanted to grow her solo cleaning business, but circumstances held her back. In this interview, you will see how Marcia turned the corner this past summer and has a totally booked calendar.The biggest takeaway from this episode is Marcia's mindset of always giving the best. The majority of her recent new client surge had experienced sub-standard cleaning. Then they gave Marcia a try and she gave them deep cleans every time. Marcia elevated her quality to stand out and as she says, "They got hooked."Resources:Debbie Sardone is highly successful cleaning business owner and founder of the wildly popular Cleaning Business Fundamentals course, which gives cleaning service owners the blueprint, materials, and coaching to get over 7-figures If you're a solo cleaner that would like to transition to employees, I recommend a free consultation with Debbie.Homestars is the Canadian version of the US-based HomeAdvisor for lead generation.Business Calendar 2 is the automation tool we use to streamline our various Google calendars and task lists.

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. Today's #AskaHouseCleaner sponsors are Savvy Cleaner (Training and certification for house cleaners and maids.) And HouseCleaning360 - a hub where you can find a residential cleaner near you. *** GET IN TOUCH WITH DEBBIE SARDONE *** https://speedcleaning.com *** MOST REQUESTED LIST OF CLEANING STUFF I USE *** https://www.Amazon.com/shop/AngelaBrown *** MORE VIDEOS ON THIS TOPIC *** The Speed Cleaning Method of Training Employees How To Clean - SpeedCleaning - https://youtu.be/QcDSydO6eSk Speed Cleaning Tips with Debbie Sardone - Plaid for Women - https://youtu.be/pm4h43t1yh8 Automate and systemize your cleaning business - SpeedCleaning - https://youtu.be/JGGNusMUkOg What to Do When You Hate to Clean with Debbie Sardone - Angela Brown - https://youtu.be/NnYw76r4-d0 Organic Cleaning Supplies - Angela Brown - https://youtu.be/-bqg4zwu2Iw *** GOOD KARMA RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE *** These good karma links connect you to Amazon.com and affiliated sites that offer products or services that relate to today’s show. When you click on the links and buy the items you pay the exact same prices or less than if you found the links on your own elsewhere. The difference is that we make a small commission here at the show for sharing these links with you. So, you create good karma by supporting 7 families who work on this show. THANK YOU Speed Cleaning Total Home Care Kit - https://www.thecleanteam.com/Kits_c_17.html Speed Cleaning Grab N GO Kit - https://www.thecleanteam.com/Kits_c_17.html Red Juice All-Purpose Cleaner - https://amzn.to/2NNibcW Blue Juice Glass Cleaner - https://amzn.to/2ZJcjUq Speed Cleaning Sh-Mop and Sh-Clean Floor Cleaner Kit - https://amzn.to/2ZJNqvA *** OTHER WAYS TO ENJOY THIS SHOW *** ITUNES - http://apple.co/2xhxnoj STITCHER - http://bit.ly/2fcm5JM SOUNDCLOUD - http://bit.ly/2xpRgLH GOOGLE PLAY - http://bit.ly/2fdkQd7 YOUTUBE - https://goo.gl/UCs92v *** GOT A QUESTION FOR A SHOW? *** Email it to Angela[at]AskaHouseCleaner.com Voice Mail: Click on the blue button at https://askahousecleaner.com *** HOUSE CLEANING TIPS VAULT *** (DELIVERED VIA EMAIL) - https://savvycleaner.com/tips *** FREE EBOOK – HOW TO START YOUR OWN HOUSE CLEANING COMPANY *** http://amzn.to/2xUAF3Z *** PROFESSIONAL HOUSE CLEANERS PRIVATE FACEBOOK GROUP *** https://www.facebook.com/groups/ProfessionalHouseCleaners/ *** VRBO AIRBNB CLEANING FACEBOOK GROUP *** https://www.facebook.com/groups/VRBO.Airbnb.Cleaning/ *** LOOKING FOR WAY TO GET MORE CLEANING LEADS *** https://housecleaning360.com *** WHAT IS ASK A HOUSE CLEANER? *** Ask a House Cleaner is a daily show where you get to ask your house cleaning questions and we provide answers. Learn how to clean. How to start a cleaning business. Marketing and Advertising tips for your cleaning service. How to find top quality house cleaners, housekeepers, and maids. Employee motivation tactics. Strategies to boost your cleaning clientele. Cleaning company expansion help. Time-saving Hacks for DIY cleaners and more. Hosted by Angela Brown, 25-year house cleaning expert and founder of Savvy Cleaner Training for House Cleaners and Maids. *** SPONSORSHIPS & BRANDS *** We do work with sponsors and brands. If you are interested in working with us and you have a product or service that is cohesive to the cleaning industry read this: https://savvycleaner.com/product-review *** THIS SHOW WAS SPONSORED BY *** SAVVY CLEANER - House Cleaner Training and Certification – https://savvycleaner.com MY CLEANING CONNECTION – Your hub for all things cleaning – https://mycleaningconnection.com HOUSECLEANING360.COM – Connecting House Cleaners with Homeowners – https://housecleaning360.com SAVVY PERKS – Employee Benefits for Small Business Owners – https://savvyperks.com VRBO AIRBNB CLEANING – Cleaning tips and strategies for your short-term rental https://TurnoverCleaningTips.com

Need house cleaners for your Airbnb? Today Angela Brown of #SavvyCleaner and Debbie Sardone of #SpeedCleaning talk shop. Hiring house cleaners for your Airbnb or VRBO could mean a co-host or a regular maid service. Either way, they need to be able to communicate and act as a hosting partner. Turnover Service depends on ratings which come from #Cleaning. If you can please a guest you have the right house cleaners for your Airbnb or short-term rental. #AskaHouseCleaner sponsors are Savvy Cleaner and Turnover Cleaning Tips. *** LEARN MORE ABOUT DEBBIE SARDONE *** www.debbiesardone.com – Debbie’s Coaching www.speedcleaning.com – Speed Cleaning Products *** MOST REQUESTED LIST OF CLEANING STUFF I USE *** https://www.Amazon.com/shop/AngelaBrown   *** MORE VIDEOS ON THIS TOPIC *** House Cleaner or Property Management for Your Vacation Rental? - Angela Brown - https://youtu.be/BFqRKXAadQA Networking Sites, Groups to Get More Airbnb Cleaning Jobs - Angela Brown - https://youtu.be/SY-0pVft1L0 Maintenance Clean vs. a Turnover Clean for Airbnb & VRBO - Angela Brown - https://youtu.be/S3r2qVT9eZU Airbnb - Do You Clean It Yourself or Hire a Cleaning Service - Angela Brown - https://youtu.be/pwyId-l6DGU Airbnb Cleaning Services & Programs - Webinar with Q&A - LearnAirbnb - https://youtu.be/by4cpnH_gRQ *** GOOD KARMA RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE *** These good karma links connect you to Amazon.com and affiliated sites that offer products or services that relate to today’s show. When you click on the links and buy the items you pay the exact same prices or less than if you found the links on your own elsewhere. The difference is that we make a small commission here at the show for sharing these links with you. So, you create good karma by supporting 7 families who work on this show. THANK YOU! It Needs to be Perfect - Mastering the Vacation Rental Cleaning Business - https://amzn.to/32xjxwr Airbnb For Dummies - https://amzn.to/2N94XI2 Airbnb: Beginner's Guide to Hosting: How to Set Up and Run Your Own Airbnb Business - https://amzn.to/2A9TXl3 Airbnb A to Z: Cleaners and hosts - https://amzn.to/2NTkBqh Optimize YOUR Bnb: The Definitive Guide to Ranking #1 in Airbnb Search - https://amzn.to/2NRIFtA *** OTHER WAYS TO ENJOY THIS SHOW *** ITUNES - http://apple.co/2xhxnoj STITCHER - http://bit.ly/2fcm5JM SOUNDCLOUD - http://bit.ly/2xpRgLH GOOGLE PLAY - http://bit.ly/2fdkQd7 YOUTUBE - https://goo.gl/UCs92v *** GOT A QUESTION FOR A SHOW? *** Email it to Angela[at]AskaHouseCleaner.com Voice Mail: Click on the blue button at https://askahousecleaner.com *** HOUSE CLEANING TIPS VAULT *** (DELIVERED VIA EMAIL) - https://savvycleaner.com/tips *** FREE EBOOK – HOW TO START YOUR OWN HOUSE CLEANING COMPANY *** http://amzn.to/2xUAF3Z *** PROFESSIONAL HOUSE CLEANERS PRIVATE FACEBOOK GROUP *** https://www.facebook.com/groups/ProfessionalHouseCleaners/ *** VRBO AIRBNB CLEANING FACEBOOK GROUP *** https://www.facebook.com/groups/VRBO.Airbnb.Cleaning/ *** LOOKING FOR WAY TO GET MORE CLEANING LEADS *** https://housecleaning360.com *** WHAT IS ASK A HOUSE CLEANER? *** Ask a House Cleaner is a daily show where you get to ask your house cleaning questions and we provide answers. Learn how to clean. How to start a cleaning business. Marketing and Advertising tips for your cleaning service. How to find top quality house cleaners, housekeepers, and maids. Employee motivation tactics. Strategies to boost your cleaning clientele. Cleaning company expansion help. Time-saving Hacks for DIY cleaners and more. Hosted by Angela Brown, 25-year house cleaning expert and founder of Savvy Cleaner Training for House Cleaners and Maids. *** SPONSORSHIPS & BRANDS *** We do work with sponsors and brands. If you are interested in working with us and you have a product or service that is cohesive to the cleaning industry read this: https://savvycleaner.com/product-review *** THIS SHOW WAS SPONSORED BY *** SAVVY CLEANER - House Cleaner Training and Certification – https://savvycleaner.com MY CLEANING CONNECTION – Your hub for all things cleaning – https://mycleaningconnection.com HOUSECLEANING360.COM – Connecting House Cleaners with Homeowners – https://housecleaning360.com SAVVY PERKS – Employee Benefits for Small Business Owners – https://savvyperks.com VRBO AIRBNB CLEANING – Cleaning tips and strategies for your short-term rental https://TurnoverCleaningTips.com

What do you need to clean a male only household? If cleaning for men is on your agenda, you're in the right place. Debbie Sardone, residential cleaning expert says the speed cleaning total home care kit is the ticket. Eco-friendly cleaning supplies and a Sh-mop make safe and easy cleaning for men. The #SpeedCleaning Grab N Go kit is also a good choice with all the tools you would need for power cleaning or SpeedCleaning. With Debbie's counsel, (interviewed by Angela Brown) it's now cool that men clean house. Today's #AskaHouseCleaner sponsors are #SavvyCleaner (producer of these cleaning tips.) And Speed Cleaning - with the man version of cleaning. *** CONNECT WITH DEBBIE SARDONE *** https://debbiesardone.com https://speedcleaning.com *** MOST REQUESTED LIST OF CLEANING STUFF I USE *** https://www.Amazon.com/shop/AngelaBrown *** MORE VIDEOS ON THIS TOPIC *** Ultimate Clean with ME (MAN VERSION) - Todd Konitzer - https://youtu.be/8Tsab-q3_CQ Extreme Clean with Me Time Lapse 2019 - Man Cleaning House - Real Men Clean - https://youtu.be/MmQlUFwikLk clean with me - Organization hacks - Minimal and simple - Adam Atkins - https://youtu.be/8XXY76-N2yk How to Clean an Oven in 3 Simple Steps | Clean with Confidence - https://youtu.be/cQKLe6usFW8? 8 Hacks and 9 Tools for Men Who Hate to Clean with Royce Ard - Angela Brown - https://youtu.be/HAJp-uVHgrs *** GOOD KARMA RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE *** These good karma links connect you to Amazon.com and affiliated sites that offer products or services that relate to today’s show. When you click on the links and buy the items you pay the exact same prices or less than if you found the links on your own elsewhere. The difference is that we make a small commission here at the show for sharing these links with you. So, you create good karma by supporting 7 families who work on this show. Thank You. Speed Cleaning Total Home Care Kit - https://www.thecleanteam.com/Kits_c_17.html Speed Cleaning Grab N GO Kit - https://www.thecleanteam.com/Kits_c_17.html Red Juice All-Purpose Cleaner - https://amzn.to/2NNibcW Blue Juice Glass Cleaner - https://amzn.to/2ZJcjUq Speed Cleaning Sh-Mop and Sh-Clean Floor Cleaner Kit - https://amzn.to/2ZJNqvA *** OTHER WAYS TO ENJOY THIS SHOW *** ITUNES - http://apple.co/2xhxnoj STITCHER - http://bit.ly/2fcm5JM SOUNDCLOUD - http://bit.ly/2xpRgLH GOOGLE PLAY - http://bit.ly/2fdkQd7 YOUTUBE - https://goo.gl/UCs92v *** GOT A QUESTION FOR A SHOW? *** Email it to Angela[at]AskaHouseCleaner.com Voice Mail: Click on the blue button at https://askahousecleaner.com *** HOUSE CLEANING TIPS VAULT *** (DELIVERED VIA EMAIL) - https://savvycleaner.com/tips *** FREE EBOOK – HOW TO START YOUR OWN HOUSE CLEANING COMPANY *** http://amzn.to/2xUAF3Z *** PROFESSIONAL HOUSE CLEANERS PRIVATE FACEBOOK GROUP *** https://www.facebook.com/groups/ProfessionalHouseCleaners/ *** VRBO AIRBNB CLEANING FACEBOOK GROUP *** https://www.facebook.com/groups/VRBO.Airbnb.Cleaning/ *** LOOKING FOR WAY TO GET MORE CLEANING LEADS *** https://housecleaning360.com *** WHAT IS ASK A HOUSE CLEANER? *** Ask a House Cleaner is a daily show where you get to ask your house cleaning questions and we provide answers. Learn how to clean. How to start a cleaning business. Marketing and Advertising tips for your cleaning service. How to find top quality house cleaners, housekeepers, and maids. Employee motivation tactics. Strategies to boost your cleaning clientele. Cleaning company expansion help. Time-saving Hacks for DIY cleaners and more. Hosted by Angela Brown, 25-year house cleaning expert and founder of Savvy Cleaner Training for House Cleaners and Maids. *** SPONSORSHIPS & BRANDS *** We do work with sponsors and brands. If you are interested in working with us and you have a product or service that is cohesive to the cleaning industry read this: https://savvycleaner.com/product-review *** THIS SHOW WAS SPONSORED BY *** SAVVY CLEANER - House Cleaner Training and Certification – https://savvycleaner.com MY CLEANING CONNECTION – Your hub for all things cleaning – https://mycleaningconnection.com HOUSECLEANING360.COM – Connecting House Cleaners with Homeowners – https://housecleaning360.com SAVVY PERKS – Employee Benefits for Small Business Owners – https://savvyperks.com VRBO AIRBNB CLEANING – Cleaning tips and strategies for your short-term rental https://TurnoverCleaningTips.com

What do you do when you hate to clean? It's one thing to hate to clean if you're a homeowner, but what if you're a cleaning technician? And heaven forbid you could be a cleaning business owner and hate to clean. Today we ask Debbie Sardone, Co-Owner of Speed Cleaning about this. Debbie Sardone and Jeff Campbell updated and enhanced Speed Cleaning for the Pros. It's a system maid service owners and professional house cleaners use to get more done in less time. If you can't stand cleaning try #SpeedCleaning and get the job done quicker. Today's #AskaHouseCleaner sponsors are #SavvyCleaner (Training and certification for house cleaners and maids.) And SpeedCleaning - maker of the Speed Cleaning Scum Bum for showers - discussed in today’s show. *** GET IN TOUCH WITH DEBBIE SARDONE *** https://DebbieSardone.com https://SpeedCleaning.com *** MOST REQUESTED LIST OF CLEANING STUFF I USE *** https://www.Amazon.com/shop/AngelaBrown   *** MORE VIDEOS ON THIS TOPIC *** Cleaning Triggers fi you Hate to Clean - Angela Brown - https://youtu.be/7v9vOiRTPiA Cleaning Schedule for Working Moms that HATE CLEANING - Marriage & Motherhood - https://youtu.be/yaaoq62f328 Speed Cleaning Scum Bum for Showers - http://bit.ly/ScumBum Employee Training Manual - Speed Cleaning - http://bit.ly/SpeedCleaningTrainingManual Speed Cleaning Red Juice All Purpose Concentrate with Mixing Spray Bottle - https://amzn.to/2U4tONz Speed Cleaning Blue Juice Glass Cleaner Concentrate with Mixing Spray Bottle - https://amzn.to/2HsR038 These good karma links connect you to Amazon.com and affiliated sites that offer products or services that relate to today’s show. When you click on the links and buy the items you pay the exact same prices or less than if you found the links on your own elsewhere. The difference is that we make a small commission here at the show for sharing these links with you. So, you create good karma by supporting 5 families who work on this show. THANK YOU. *** OTHER WAYS TO ENJOY THIS SHOW *** ITUNES - http://apple.co/2xhxnoj STITCHER - http://bit.ly/2fcm5JM SOUNDCLOUD - http://bit.ly/2xpRgLH GOOGLE PLAY - http://bit.ly/2fdkQd7 YOUTUBE - https://goo.gl/UCs92v *** GOT A QUESTION FOR A SHOW? *** Email it to Angela[at]AskaHouseCleaner.com Voice Mail: Click on the blue button at https://askahousecleaner.com *** HOUSE CLEANING TIPS VAULT *** (DELIVERED VIA EMAIL) - https://savvycleaner.com/tips *** FREE EBOOK – HOW TO START YOUR OWN HOUSE CLEANING COMPANY *** http://amzn.to/2xUAF3Z *** PROFESSIONAL HOUSE CLEANERS PRIVATE FACEBOOK GROUP *** https://www.facebook.com/groups/ProfessionalHouseCleaners/ *** VRBO AIRBNB CLEANING FACEBOOK GROUP *** https://www.facebook.com/groups/VRBO.Airbnb.Cleaning/ *** LOOKING FOR WAY TO GET MORE CLEANING LEADS *** https://housecleaning360.com *** WHAT IS ASK A HOUSE CLEANER? *** Ask a House Cleaner is a daily show where you get to ask your house cleaning questions and we provide answers. Learn how to clean. How to start a cleaning business. Marketing and Advertising tips for your cleaning service. How to find top quality house cleaners, housekeepers, and maids. Employee motivation tactics. Strategies to boost your cleaning clientele. Cleaning company expansion help. Time-saving Hacks for DIY cleaners and more. Hosted by Angela Brown, 25-year house cleaning expert and founder of Savvy Cleaner Training for House Cleaners and Maids. *** SPONSORSHIPS & BRANDS *** We do work with sponsors and brands. If you are interested in working with us and you have a product or service that is cohesive to the cleaning industry read this: https://savvycleaner.com/product-review *** THIS SHOW WAS SPONSORED BY *** SAVVY CLEANER - House Cleaner Training and Certification – https://savvycleaner.com MY CLEANING CONNECTION – Your hub for all things cleaning – https://mycleaningconnection.com HOUSECLEANING360.COM – Connecting House Cleaners with Homeowners – https://housecleaning360.com SAVVY PERKS – Employee Benefits for Small Business Owners – https://savvyperks.com VRBO AIRBNB CLEANING – Cleaning tips and strategies for your short-term rental https://TurnoverCleaningTips.com

AG Jeff Landry + Trooper Thomas Gossen + Debbie Sardone

Episode 390:  The Legend Debbie Sardone And Her Automated Cleaning Business Systems Debbie Sardone turned a cleaning job into a 7-Figure, self-running Cleaning Empire.  After building one of the largest residential maid services in the country she began speaking and training other cleaning business owners around the world.  She is known world-wide for her Maid Service Business Training courses, Bootcamps, and Conferences.  She is the branded manufacturer of the non-toxic Speed Cleaning products and co-author of the book “Speed Cleaning For The Pros”. Her nonprofit, Cleaning For A Reason, has risen to national prominence and has provided free house cleaning services to over 50,000 women with cancer.  Debbie has been featured in Reader's Digest, Today.com, NBC Nightline, Fox & Friends, Oprah, The 700-Club and dozens of other local and national media.  In 2018 she received ISSA's highest achievement, the Jack D. Ramaley Distinguished Service award. She is a L'Oreal Paris Women-Of-Worth Honoree, a two-time recipient of the Presidents Volunteer Service Award, Chamber Of Commerce Woman-Of-The Year, and she got to throw out the “first pitch” at Yankee Stadium in front of 31,000 fans during Hope Week.  Her signature talks, “Maid For More” and “The Blue Collar Rich” inspires mission-driven entrepreneurs to build their dream-business using her 5-step formula and the go-giver mindset! http://cleaningbusinessfundamentals.com (WORK WITH DEBBIE SARDONE:  CLICK HERE)   https://agsexperience.com (Sign Up For The Automate Grow Sell Experience HERE)     “10 out of 10 people die…  So how about doing something today that actually matters while you still can” – Joshua Latimer     You can check out Joshua’s AMAZING Marketing software by clicking here If you’ve enjoyed this PodCast this year if it’s brought value to you, your life or your business could you please go to iTunes and leave a 5-star review? https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/radiusbomb-com-quick-talk-podcast/id1061375545?mt=2 (Click here to leave your review)

Debbie Sardone is the Founder of Speed Cleaning.

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Debbie Sardone is a leading expert in the cleaning industry. She started cleaning as a side business. Today Debbie is the owner of Buckets & Bows Maid Service in Texas, with over 40 employees serving over 500 customers, and multi-million dollar revenue. She is the founder of the national non-profit, Cleaning For A Reason, which provides free cleaning services to women with cancer. In 2010, Debbie and her husband Steve bought Speed Cleaning, a company that manufactures and ships premium green cleaning products and equipment. Debbie is also a speaker, author, and consultant. She's been featured in Reader's Digest and has made appearances on several TV networks, radio stations, and magazines. Debbie also owns a global consulting business helping maid service owners achieve success.

Should schools be closing in the wake of this winter's flu crisis? That's the question as Debbie calls in to 660 AM The Answer in Dallas to talk about parents, kids, and how you can keep your family flu-free!

Cleaning expert Debbie Sardone digs into a new survey about getting others to clean for you

Cleaning industry specialist Debbie Sardone exposes the truth about our soles

Today on Cause Talk Radio, Megan and Joe talk to Debbie Sardone, President and Founder of Cleaning for a Reason, a nonprofit that gives the gift of free house cleaning to women undergoing treatment of any type of cancer. Cleaning for a Reason has worked with over 1,200 maid services to donate free housecleaning to women who are undergoing treatment for any kind of cancer. Since 2006, their partner maid services have volunteered their time to clean for over 20,000 women – valued at over $5,500,000. On the show, Megan, Debbie and Joe discuss: How “Clean homes make people feel good.” Amen! Cleaning for a Reason is free service to women battling cancer. How Cleaning for a Reason partners with maid services all over the country to help the community. How maid services benefit from Cleaning for a Reason in communications training and support soliciting local and national media coverage. How Debbie, the owner of a cleaning business of her own, developed the idea of Cleaning for a Reason by talking to people in the cleaning industry. The national exposure Cleaning for a Reason has received from The Ellen Show, People Magazine, Reader’s Digest, Buzzfeed and many others! How Debbie’s whole world is cleaning and founding Cleaning for a Reason was a natural extension of her brand that helped her business, other cleaning companies and the community. What maid services pay to be involved in Cleaning for a Reason, how much goes back to the charity and the firewall between Debbie’s business and her nonprofit. How starting a nonprofit has contributed to Debbie’s success and her bottom-line. Show Notes Cleaning for a Reason Cleaning for a Reason on Facebook Texas Woman Helps Women Battling Cancer Get Their Homes Cleaned – for Free! Firehouse Subs  

Debbie Sardone knew how to make a buck long before she discovered the secret to hanging on to it. Now a tried-and-true barter advocate, she is sometimes referred to as a ‘Barter-preneur’ because of her ability to turn good ideas into successful business enterprises with the help of barter. Join Esteem Yourself BlogTalkRadio host Chizoma Cluff as she interviews Debbie Sardone. www.TheBarternomicsBook.com

Debbie Sardone knew how to make a buck long before she discovered the secret to hanging on to it. Now a tried-and-true barter advocate, she is sometimes referred to as a ‘Barter-preneur’ because of her ability to turn good ideas into successful business enterprises with the help of barter. Join Esteem Yourself BlogTalkRadio host Chizoma Cluff as she interviews Debbie Sardone. www.TheBarternomicsBook.com

Maid Service Basics: What You Must Know To Grow Your Residential Cleaning Service. In this interview, Debbie discusses the self-limiting factors that keep us from making money in the cleaning business.

Maid Service Basics: What You Must Know To Grow Your Residential Cleaning Service. In this interview, Debbie discusses the next steps towards the success and growth of your cleaning business.

Jean Hanson of TheJanitorial Store.com interviews Debbie Sardone of TheMaidCoach.com. In this interview, Debbie discusses what the biggest obstacles are to growing your residential cleaning business.