1-Supply & Demand for AUGUSTA, GA compared with similar metros for the week of: 19 January 2008

The House Cleaning Alliance's Cleaning Industry supply & demand survey for Augusta for the week of 19 January 2008 can be used to analyze the relative supply and demand for Augusta as it compares to other metros, and for analyzing the trends over time throughout Augusta. Additionally, because the Cleaning Industry survey is sorted by keywords, it offers some insight into which keyword terms might be most effective for use in marketing or searching for services in Augusta.

The Cleaning Industry survey for Augusta is derived from the count of ads submitted: 1) by Cleaning Industry service providers offering their services (supply) during the week of 19 January 2008 ; and 2) by home owners seeking Cleaning Industry service providers (demand) during the week of 19 January 2008 . For this reason, the survey represents a proxy for assessing the relative strength of supply for Cleaning Industry, and to a lesser extent demand for Cleaning Industry in Augusta, as a basis for comparison over time or across metros.

One interesting thing to note is that there are quite often many times over more ads by Cleaning Industry providers offering services than there are ads seeking Cleaning Industry providers. As such, the survey is not meant to offer information about the actual supply and demand for Cleaning Industry during the week of 19 January 2008 within the Augusta market, but just as a point of comparison from week to week, or metro to metro.

From the perspective of a cleaning industry company, among those compared to Augusta, Pueblo, CO as a whole represented the most favorable market, and Columb, MO represented the least favorable market.