Come one, come all. The premier cleaning company has officially added carpet cleaning to our services. We clean green so you can have peace of mind that your home is allergy free and safe for children and pets. As always Chesapeake Bay Cleaning Services offers FREE estimates. Give us a call today and mention this posting for a stellar deal. $99 for a whole house clean! 

http://ijcsa.org/Carpet-Cleaning-Directory

Chesapeake Bay Cleaning Services is adding carpet cleaning to our business. We started out a small maid service looking to grow and expand our client base. Our goal is to become a full service cleaning company that can clean anything. This is just one step to achieving that goal. While a lot of people are making the switch to hardwood or laminate flooring, carpets are still one of the most popular choices of flooring out there. It is our view that, like grass, everyone needs to get their carpets cleaned. Where grass is weekly, carpets can be done two to three times a year. It helps to lengthen the life of your carpet. I like to think about carpet as an investment, wouldn't you want to protect it?

Our company only uses green cleaning supplies, so rest assured that your children and pets and people with allergies can relax comfortably in your home. 

Find Us & Other Certified Carpet Cleaning Companies Here

 Watch out world, there's a new cleaner in town. And her name is Au Natural. Sit back as she cleans your home in the fraction of the time as store bought cleaners but without leaving all of those harmful chemicals behind.

For years we have been pumping harmful chemicals into our world in a feigned attempt to clean it, but did you know that this world produces products that is capable of cleaning itself? That is what natural cleaners are. They were created by our world to care for our world.

Hire a green cleaner today, certified green cleaners have been trained in many natural remedies and solutions to keep your office, home, and family clean safe and fresh. Be a part of the movement that is restoring our world, one lemon at a time! Find a cleaner at http://www.ijcsa.org/Green-Cleaning-Services you will be glad you did!

 The Earth is not only our home, it is also our most valuable non renewable resource. The way we treat her matters. Here at (GHOST) Green House Organic Solutions Team  LLC. we take pride in our home, and yours. This is the number one reason we are willing to go the extra mile and pay the extra buck. From day one Ghost Cleaners dedicated ourselves to using natural and organic solutions, we have to, its in our name. All of our cleaning solutions are individually sourced and blended for us, but only when a order is placed. By using this model we know natural resources are being used and not in wasteful manner.

At Ghost Cleaners some of the measures me use to leave our clients home and our world a little greener are; as mentioned earlier we use only organic solutions created for us when the order is placed. The company is Aroma Therapy Naturals visit them at www.aromatherapynaturals.com. We do our part to save as many trees as possible, we are committed to using as little paper as we realistically can, from beginning to end Ghost Cleaners uses electronic communications and invoicing and payment. The vast majority of marketing for Ghost Cleaners is either online or word of mouth. In the home we strive to use the least amount of paper as possible, opting for micro fiber cleaning cloths and squeegees in place of paper towels. Using HEPA Rated filtration in our vacuum equipment allows us to trap dust and allergens and not leave any behind. Not to mention the use of hybrid service vehicles, like we said Ghost Cleaners ultimate goal is to protect our environment one client at a time.  

Find Us In The IJCSA Green Cleaning Service Directory Here

With the holiday season rapidly approaching, a fresh cleaning of your carpet and upholstery will be a great way to celebrate with family and friends.  To locate the professional services that you deserve to meet your cleaning needs go through the IJCSA directly at the link below.  Here you will find local experts in the carpet cleaning industry that you can trust and depend on to properly care for your home and office investments.   http://www.ijcsa.org/Carpet-Cleaning-Directory 

I have recently invested into the cleaning services and purchased a truck mounted carpet cleaning machine.  Our company Cook's Professional Cleaning Services provides a multi-county service reach and we are focusing on both residential and commercial clientele.  Our company slogan "Finding better ways to serve you" is at the heart of our mission.  Joining the International Janitorial Cleaning Services Association is one path of achieving the network, resources and certification to provide continuous improvement to our employees and customers.  new methods of carpet cleaning that yield a safe and hazard free approach to our business and community is paramount.   We believe in innovation and technological improvements and look forward to reaching out through this network to grow our business and resources.    We consider the education and certification through IJCSA fundamental in our professional approach.   

As a houseman at a locally owned hotel, I recognize the importance and benefits of implementing a carpet cleaning program, which would be performed either weekly or bi-monthly depending on numerous factors.  The method I would select as to how to implement a carpet cleaning plan into this business is as follows. I would begin by conducting a needs analysis; walking around the property and mapping out areas that have carpet. Following the analysis, I would perform a deep vacuuming of all the carpeted areas, which would remove loose dust and dirt, especially in areas of the property that see frequent levels of high traffic. In addition to deep vacuuming, I would often perform routine vacuuming on a frequent basis as it is of great benefit because it will prevent dust and other potentially harmful particles from seeping far into the carpet.

Understanding how to spot clean carpet and deep clean carpet are essential components when implementing a carpet cleaning program into a business. Spot cleaning and stain removal can usually be completed with a washcloth, warm water, and a detergent that is bleach free. Since many hotel properties (including ours) often experience high traffic during normal daytime hours, I would utilize this technique to clean areas that would require immediate attention during these times. For after-hours applications, and to simply perform routine carpet maintenance, I would utilize deep cleaning techniques which would require rental of a larger carpet cleaning or carpet steam cleaning machine. Performing this task on a weekly or bi-monthly basis would not only prolong the life of the carpet, but enhance its appearance as well.

Find A IJCSA Carpet Cleaning Company Here

Cleaning our homes & work environments is important to protecting our own health and that of our families & people we associate with each day . But could the very products we use to protect our health actually be doing us more harm than good?

The truth is, that shampoos, body wash, soaps, and common household cleaning products often contain harmful chemicals that we are not aware of. 

If you are still using conventional store-bought cleaning products, know what you are buying. (Even some "Green" products contain ingredients that can cause a variety of serious health concerns). 

About 53 percent of cleaning products reviewed by the EWG, (Environmental Working Group) contained ingredients that were harmful to humans-especially the lungs, and potentially fatal if inhaled or swallowed. In addition, several well-known carcinogens were found in many of the tested cleaning products, and others are reportedly made with highly toxic ingredients such as formaldehyde, toluene, ammonia, bleach and chloroform.  Still others were found to contain elements and ingredients that have been banned in other countries. 

These chemicals most commonly irritate eyes, skin, lungs and mucous membranes, but can also cause headaches, asthma, nosebleeds, burns, hormonal interruptions, cancer and a variety of other illnesses and conditions. Even "natural" ingredients such as citrus oil, can be irritating to the lungs and cause air quality issues if used improperly or without proper ventilation.

According to a press release by the EWG:

"Just 7 percent of cleaning products adequately disclosed their contents. To uncover what’s in common household cleaners, EWG’s staff scientists spent 14 months scouring product labels and digging through company websites and technical documents. EWG staff reviewed each ingredient against 15 U.S. and international toxicity databases and numerous scientific and medical journals."

As a general rule of thumb, and to limit exposure & damage, here are a few things to keep in mind:

• Manufacturers are not obligated by U.S. law to list all ingredients in consumer products. Products that are labeled "green" do not necessarily mean they are safer. Read labels, and use all products with caution.
• Avoid using any kind of air fresheners, solid, pump or aerosol.
  
• When using cleaning products, wear gloves to limit skin contact.
• Never use cleaning products in a small, enclosed space (such as as an enclosed  shower or vehicle).
  
• Be sure to keep the area well ventilated at all times by opening windows and doors, and using exhaust fans. 
• Never mix cleaning products, (Especially bleach and ammonia) 
• NEVER use products in a quantity or in a manner which they were not intended for. (Example: using toilet bowl cleaner to clean grout.) 
• Research more natural, less toxic cleaning solutions to reduce exposure to pets, humans and the environment.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has compiled a list of cleaning and bath products that meet its Safer Choice standards. The list also includes cleaning products used in the home and motor vehicles.

To view EWG's "Hall of Shame" list, click here.

For Green Cleaning Services in your area, visit: http://www.ijcsa.org/Green-Cleaning-Services

Facebook for your cleaning business? The answer is no and let me tell you why. The average FB user has 450 friends and creating a FB page for your cleaning or janitorial business is a total waste of time. Here is the scenario and reasons why. 

1- You are going to create a FB business page and invite roughly 450 friends to like your page. The average person on FB has that many friends. On average 10% or 45 of them will like your page. The same people that know you have or started a cleaning business because you personally told everyone on your personal FB page. The same people that might or might not buy from you because you advertised on your personal FB page instead of creating a business FB. 

2- Those 45 people that personally like you may if you ask them invite their friends also to like your page. Most of them will not. 

3- FB has little or absolutely no search value compared to other social websites such as Twitter.

4- How many people do you think actually go to FB to find cleaning or janitorial services? Very few. If you own a cleaning or janitorial business when is the last time you went on FB to find a service that you needed? If you did, did you buy from that service? Probably not!  I`ll bet that you went to Google first! People go to FB to keep in touch with family & friends and play games. Most users polled are annoyed when seeing advertisements and do not purchase from such businesses. 

5- As from other articles you will see on this thread the amount of money and time that you will spend on a FB business page does not return the investment. Especially with cleaning & janitorial services and this is a fact from polling hundreds of our members. It becomes a never ending cycle of you paying Facebook to "look cool" and generate likes that does not return the investment. 

6- FB reviews are shady and most are fake reviews. If you want to gain the trust of a new client give them the phone number of some of your current clients that you clean for. If you are doing primarily commercial take your possible new clients to a facility that your company cleans for a tour. Let you work speak for itself.

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Unfortunately, the golden age of promoting your brand on Facebook has now passed, especially if you’re a small business owner. It has become increasingly difficult to reach that audience through the platform and even if you do manage it, getting them to engage is a whole other struggle. If you gain any customers or visitors to your site as a result of Facebook, chances are you will wonder if the time, money and effort were worth it in the end.

In this post we will explain why Facebook is so difficult for small businesses and why it may be more effort than it’s worth.

Source: Click X

  

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In my last four posts I've shared some of the lessons that I've learned from helping set up lullubee.com, a new business that makes and markets kits for making crafts. After we launched the site and figured out how to take orders and ship products, the next task we faced was to get more visitors to the site, and ultimately more sales. In the next few posts I'll cover several of the techniques we implemented, but in this post I'll focus on Facebook FB +0% marketing.

The first thing we did was to set up our Facebook Page, as recommended in Facebooks "Four Steps to Business success on Facebook".

Once you set up your page, you need to get users to visit it and, hopefully, to "like" it. The reason you want people to like your page is that your posts will then appear on that users news feed. Over time this will allow you, according to Facebook, to start "building loyalty and creating opportunities to generate sales." The first method to get likes is to promote it on your own website using Facebook social plugins. As this costs nothing, you may as well do it, but the percentage of visitors that click on these is typically very small. The second is to purchase Facebook Ads that persuade people to visit your page and to like it. The irony of spending money to promote our Facebook page instead of our site was not lost on us.

After some experimentation I was able to create several ads that successfully generated likes on our page at costs that averaged from $0.27 to $0.57 per like. We spent some money and built up several thousand likes, all the while optimizing the campaign to better target likely customers. We justified the expense as it seemed to be analogous to building up a database of email addresses of people that wanted to learn about our site and our products. However, we shortly discovered our error.

Once we started posting on our Facebook page, we were shocked, shocked, to see that not all the users that liked our page were seeing our posts. For example, with over 6,000 likes on our page, a typical post would only be seen by fifty to several hundred people. To reiterate, only 1% to 5% of the people that liked our page saw our posts. If we were justifying our expense as analogous to building a database of emails, then it was a database that only allowed you to access a tiny, randomly selected, subset each time it was used.

Not quite what we had expected.

Facebook, of course, has a solution for this quandary. Unsurprisingly it involves paying Facebook yet again. Next to each post is a small "Promote" button which innocently suggests that for the mere sum of anywhere from $5 to $300, you can have your post reach from 500 to 50,000 people. This is equivalent to paying from $6 to $10 CPM, advertising rates typically paid for premium ad inventory, to have your post appear on the news feeds of people for whom you have already richly paid Facebook once before. Bear in mind that this is just for your post to appear fleetingly on their feed, with no guarantee that they will see it or click on it.

We have done over 20 promotions now at varying costs from $5 to $50, and the results in terms of users actions have been dismal. The effective cost per user action is over $2, and on some campaigns it can even reach $6 or $12. If we only look at "page likes" and "link clicks", and leave out "post likes", "post comments" and "post shares", whose value is even more ephemeral, the cost per action goes up significantly, from $6 to $20 and in some cases $50. Compared to the alternatives, these are unreasonably expensive. Unless Facebook is charging other companies an order of magnitude less than the rates we are seeing, Facebook promotions are simply not a viable option for small businesses.

Our biggest disappointment was our misunderstanding of how Facebook Pages work. Instead of building a database of users that you can contact at will, you are essentially paying Facebook to build a list of people that you can then advertise to.

Facebook, you can't have it both ways. Either ask businesses to pay for likes, or ask businesses to pay for posts. But asking them to pay premium rates for both is unreasonable and drives the cost of marketing on Facebook into the stratosphere. Perhaps this model works for celebrities or famous brands that can build up huge followings organically. But for small businesses that closely track their spending, Facebook Pages in their current incarnation are a bad investment.

The first thing we did was to set up our Facebook Page, as recommended in Facebooks “Four Steps to Business success on Facebook“. Once you set up your page, you need to get users to visit it and, hopefully, to “like” it. The reason you want people to like your page is that your posts will then appear on that users news feed. Over time this will allow you, according to Facebook, to start “building loyalty and creating opportunities to generate sales.” The first method to get likes is to promote it on your own website using Facebook social plugins. As this costs nothing, you may as well do it, but the percentage of visitors that click on these is typically very small. The second is to purchase Facebook Ads that persuade people to visit your page and to like it. The irony of spending money to promote our Facebook page instead of our site was not lost. After some experimentation I was able to create several ads that successfully generated likes on our page at costs that averaged from $0.27 to $0.57 per like. We spent some money and built up several thousand likes, all the while optimizing the campaign to better target likely customers. We justified the expense as it seemed to be analogous to building up a database of email addresses of people that wanted to learn about our site and our products. However, we shortly discovered our error. Once we started posting on our Facebook page, we were shocked, shocked, to see that not all the users that liked our page were seeing our posts. For example, with over 6,000 likes on our page, a typical post would only be seen by fifty to several hundred people. To reiterate, only 1% to 5% of the people that liked our page saw our posts. If we were justifying our expense as analogous to building a database of emails, then it was a database that only allowed you to access a tiny, randomly selected, subset each time it was used. 

If you are interested in a cleaner, greener home environment, and have been searching for a bona-fide, certified green cleaning service, you have come to the right place!

The IJCSA Green Cleaning Service Member Directory is a useful resource containing hundreds of listings, of the contact and background information for the green cleaning services in your state. 

Our members care about your family's health and well being, and are working hard every day to use earth, people and pet-friendly products and procedures to help preserve and protect the environment from unnecessary chemical toxins. Think of the positive impact it could on our families, our neighborhoods and our world if everyone used a cleaner, greener service. You can do your part by contacting your nearest green cleaning service to day, and setting up a consultation.  

For more information, contact: IJCSA