50 episódios
Keep It Clean! - A Pro Cleaning Industry Podcast Dane Gregory
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The path for the professional cleaning & restoration business owner isn’t easy or defined. Frustration is common and the next steps aren’t always clear. Host Dane Gregory has over 35 years of experience in every level of the residential and commercial cleaning industries. A past IICRC President, world-class instructor, and business mentor, Dane shares insights on business management, mindset coaching, and technical advice for cleaning business owners, managers, and technicians. Whether the speciality is carpet, hard surface, or commercial, this podcast is for every member of the cleaning and restoration industry.
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"You Should Try Carpet Cleaning!"
Keep It Clean! has Rob Hanks this week for a very entertaining story of an older brother convincing his two younger brothers to help him in his carpet cleaning business. They had little training and little support, but big dreams and a lot of drive. Those three brothers started one of the largest carpet and restoration supply businesses in North America.Listen to how their partnership worked, how they planned and looked for, but also created opportunity after opportunity throughout their enti...
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" I Had A Picture In My Head"
BK Semandic came to the US from Serbia and decided to make a life here. He has an appreciation for the land of opportunity. And what an opportunity it has been! BK applies himself through the power of visualization and creating a future that is attainable. He tells his startup story from learning the language to understanding how the cleaning and restoration industry actually works. Along the way he breaks many of the traditional rules that we commonly associate with operating and managi...
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"I Don't Remember Carpet Cleaning At Career Day"
An Interview with Bill Yeadon, all around nice guy, lover of business books and one of the pioneers of the professional cleaning industry. Bill has been a carpet cleaner for many, many years and a pure lover of marketing this industry.Bill talks about his early days as a carpet cleaning professional in Florida in the early days of on-location cleaning operations, building a multi-truck operation and then working for Bane Clene Corporate showing others how to do the same thing in their markets...
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"I Started When I Was Just A Kid"
Craig Jasper has spent a lifetime in the professional cleaning and restoration industry. Starting as a very young adult, he learned literally from the ground up to clean floors, carpets and fabrics. As most of us do, he then journeyed into the professional Restoraton industry and has become one of the most sought after instructors in the industry.His down home instruction style fits well with his Chicago upbringing. He tells it like it is. Listen to the story of his startup and the obstacles ...
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"There's A Difference Between Making Money And Making A Profit"
If you are in the professional cleaning industry and you have not heard of Courtney Lee, you have been living under a rock. This guy is everywhere on FaceBook and many different cleaning related pages. Always a positive person and always willing to lend a hand to fellow cleaning professionals, Courtney had found himself struggling with some of the same issues we all face, busy vs profitable. After coming to his own "moment of clarity", he completely changed his business model and is now ...
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"You Are Always Learning Something New"
Jessika James has been around our professional cleaning and restoration world for 37 years, seeing many new changes and challenges for the industry. She is a pioneer of contents processing from the middle 80's and a pioneer of contents processing education by recently organizing an IICRC class dedicated to this venture.Jessika got her start in the family business, doesn't that sound familiar? By working with her families cleaning and restoration business first as a carpet cleaning technician ...