KosCo Cleaning

Something that really helped me get going was to offer my cleaning services to other business owners for their promotion of my business. I offer to clean once a month or every other week, and they marketed me as often as they could. I wouldn't suggest doing more than 2 businesses at most, but if you find the right contact, it could be worth gold! Try to talk to photographers, caterers, or any other business that might do conventions or see a lot of people with the free time to talk to them about you.

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JanQuest Business Systems

Getting links on other sites (and thus making your website more popular with Google and working your way up to page one) is not hard - it just takes time. Do a Google for cleaning forums, house cleaning forums, small business forums, janitorial forums, etc, and register with them. Contribute (post) to these forums, either by asking questions or answering other's questions, and be sure to leave a link to your website with every post. Google will find these links and it will boost your web-site's page-rank (position in search results). Google considers a link to your website to be, essentially, a "vote" for your site.

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rashi1bloom

Well then, thanks for sharing the info. I now have idea about it. I will surely be back for more update.

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MCCMN

I agree with this, I hired my graphic designer and my web site builder off of ebay and was very happy.

steve55

After thirty years in business I've tried a lot of different things. These are working the best for me now. A unique website, e-mail newsletters, a small yellow page ad and a network referral group. The key is to have them working together as one unit.

april1979

Radio? You must be doing pretty well to consider advertising on the radio, isn't that fairly expensive?
As far as the yellow pages.... it seems to me that using the yellow pages yields a pretty low ROI (return on investment). As a ratio of how much you have to spend to how much you can expect to make, dollar for dollar the yellow pages are starting to seem like a ripoff to me.
Where I live you have to pay $400 a month for a puny ad!
I have the best results with google. Doing my own seo, I have risen to the top of my area's local search results for "window cleaning" and "office cleaning."

Advertising and marketing techniques seem to have different effects in different areas. If there is an older demographic in your area, the phone book may be highly effective as they tend to use it exclusively. However, if you are targeting the young, high-tech professionals, you need a strong internet presence.

What's strange is that customers coming from different avenues behave differently. Referral customers are usually good ones. Customers that I have gotten from search engine results and that have read my website are almost always great customers for some reason. On the other hand, customers who I have gotten through coupons seem to be very fickle and unloyal

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