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Cleanliness Is Key: Showing Your Clients That a Clean Store Is Important for Customer Experience

When customers walk into ​a storefront, they will judge a company by how their business looks. One immediate way that customers gauge your business is in a store's cleanliness. This can surprise a lot of people, since their business may not have anything to do with cleaning. However, as a company providing industrial or commercial cleaning, you most likely know otherwise. The simple fact is that a clean and fresh-smelling storefront suggests to customers that they are in a location that is organized, stable, and reputable. Encouraging your clients to create a cleaning routine that gives extra attention to high traffic areas like checkouts, bathrooms and changing rooms will be a good way to introduce them to the idea of...

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How to Quickly Dry Clients' Spaces After Carpet Cleaning

After performing carpet cleaning in a business or home, your clients will quickly notice that the heat and moisture needed to clean their carpets is now beading their walls and raising the temperature. The length of time it will take for freshly cleaned carpets to dry varies a lot based on the cleaning method used. Carpet cleaning equipment like the Rotovac uses a powerful extraction method that pushes clean water into the rug while extracting it using heavy suction at the same rate. While one of the best methods for professional carpet cleaning, it does have the downside of a long dry time. To help carpets dry faster and have your clients in and enjoying their freshly cleaned rugs, make use...

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Five Tips on Starting a Carpet Cleaning Business

So long as people live and work inside homes and businesses, there will be messes. And so long as there are messes, people will need to clean them. By this logic, starting a carpet cleaning business is a pretty safe venture! That being said, while the demand for carpet cleaning remains pretty inelastic, there are some important steps you have to take when starting a carpet cleaning business to make sure that it remains a viable venture.  First, invest in high-quality carpet cleaning equipment. ​Depending on the kind of services you will provide, choose equipment and products that will help you achieve your business goals and provide exemplary cleaning. Reliable, long-standing brands like Rotovac offer equipment that will allow you...

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Going Green: How the Carpet Cleaning Industry Is Changing

Our world is changing and with it, so are consumer expectations. Green, sustainable and efficient cleaning methods and equipment are becoming more common now than ever before. While commercial ventures were often the last to change their tune, commercial carpet cleaning has taken on the "green cleaning" initiative ​in a very big way.  Green cleaning refers to the use of environmentally friendly products, chemicals, or methods, which are designed to be healthier for humans, animals, and Mother Earth. Many professional or DIY solutions for carpet cleaning are hard on the environment. This is because the chemicals required to lift trod on and baked in stains have to be sufficiently aggressive to list the stain and permit carpet cleaning equipment to...

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How to Find a Supplier for Your Carpet Cleaning Equipment Needs

Having a small carpet cleaning business means that your inventory is carefully chosen to make the most out of what you have. Efficiency and effectiveness are what you're looking for when it comes to professional carpet cleaning equipment. There’s a variety of carpet cleaning equipment out there, but it’s important to choose pieces that will work best for your business. First, consider what your most common needs are: do you exclusively service residential homes? Are you in the business of cleaning commercial carpeting? This will help you decide exactly what equipment will work best for you. For example, if you work exclusively in residential homes, you will probably want something small and easy to handle like a portable extractor that...

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