http://www.house-cleaning-alliance.com Change This Under Settings Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:04:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en How to Start The "How to Start a House Cleaning Company" booklets have been written by the Founders of Denver Concierge. Denver Concierge is possibly the largest independent house cleaning company in the United States. It was founded from scratch in 1999, and in the ensuing five years was grown to reach ... http://www.house-cleaning-alliance.com/how-to-start/ If you’re a local house cleaning company, you’ve got some important advantages over your local franchise competitors. Although you may think the deck is stacked against you in terms of marketing, the benefits of not being a franchise may outweigh the marketing advantages enjoyed by your closest franchise friends.  The only ... http://www.house-cleaning-alliance.com/unstack-the-marketing-deck/ By Chris Lude President of Ripple Applications Failed Internet Marketing Strategies If your website fails to generate leads, then you’re not alone, because for most small businesses, a lack of website traffic results in no ranking by search engines. And without search engine recognition, a website cannot begin to generate new traffic from ... http://www.house-cleaning-alliance.com/typical-web-development-story/ By Hanna Loberg President of Denver Concierge Buyer’s remorse is served with a lemon twist for professional house cleaners, so a little common sense when dusting can go such a happy long way. Some of our most expensive dusting moments have been those during which we were making a special effort, because ... http://www.house-cleaning-alliance.com/two-sides-of-the-dusting-coin/ The Google Adwords Jumpstart It looked so inviting, the Google Adwords Jumpstart. We just had to try it. What did we have to lose, except for the $299? We decided to give them a really hard one to set up, house cleaning services for a little community located just outside a ... http://www.house-cleaning-alliance.com/the-fox-and-the-hens/ I found the last 15 days of preparation and the first 30 days of operations the toughest in the entire undertaking of starting my own business. I had put off a lot of last minute details, which, added to the details I did not account for, made for some pretty ... http://www.house-cleaning-alliance.com/the-%e2%80%9cfirst%e2%80%9d-month-of-operation/ My Cleaning Service was created when I was looking for a personal cleaning service for my own home. After spending a lot of time calling around, I found that besides the major franchises, the majority of cleaning services in my area were "referral services" which means that the cleaners are ... http://www.house-cleaning-alliance.com/nca-building-name-in-san-diego/ When it Comes to Vacuuming, HCA Promotes Responsible Filtering (but this HEPA issue is misconstrued) Micro filters provide filtration efficiency of 99.73% for particles .3 microns and larger, as compared to HEPA filters which can cost 25 times as much and have a filtration efficiency of 99.97% for particles .3 microns and ... http://www.house-cleaning-alliance.com/responsible-filtering-defined/ The thing that really sucks people into the vacuum debates is that there exist almost as many models and brands as there are opinions about which model and brand one should buy. Given the intensity of the debates, it will come as no surprise when someone ultimately disagrees with HCA's ... http://www.house-cleaning-alliance.com/the-vacuum-debates/ Based on our annual mailings to competitors, we found that over 100 of the total 200 to 250 house cleaning companies serving the greater Denver Metro Area gave up last year, and were replaced by about the same number of new companies. Entrepreneurs are attracted to the industry due to ... http://www.house-cleaning-alliance.com/throngs-attracted-to-house-cleaning-by-low-investment/