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How to Market your House Cleaning Job?

1. Find the right channels, and try new ones.

• FB jobs (best bang for your buck)
• Indeed (paid)
• Youtube (paid) target by zip codes where your A-players live
• Referrals by your current employees (bonus $250-300 after 90 days) (best strategy ever)

2. Build a list of cleaning candidates – just like you do with clients

• Blast old candidates
• Use the emails of old candidates to get referrals
• Create marketing campaigns to attract the the type of employee you’re after

3. Career page in you website to attract cleaning employees

• Great website with clean look, emphasize the value of your job
• Make it attractive, easy and simple to apply

How to Increase Candidate flow?

1. Do online application only. NO PAPER!

• Attractive, easy to fill and should have a progress bar
• Show that there’s a path to growing in your company

2 . Have process for evaluating cleaning applicants

• Use lead scoring
• Follow a process that a manager can follow (no owner dependent)
• Be constantly hiring/interviewing

What’s a Recruitment Funnel?

• It’s process to hire and evaluate applicants.
• Scalable.
• No required by owner to be present.
• Shows professionalism.

Hot to identify A, B, C Players

A-Players

• They’re looking for the best job opportunity.
• They call and apply within the same day, call them back asap – They fill all the questions to application.
• Prior jobs experience is fully completed.
• You can call those past managers.
• They show up on time to the interviews on time.
• They have a strong word and are committed.
• They NO is NO and their YES is a YES.
• They show integrity.
• Ask questions about the company and what’s in it for them.
• Score: 8-10 points.

Hot to identify A, B, C Players

B-Players

• They’re looking for the good job opportunity.
• They call and apply within the 24-48 hrs.
• They fill all the questions to application.
• Prior jobs experience is almost fully completed – You can call those past managers.
• They show up on time to the interviews on time.
• They have a strong word and are committed.
• They are open to multiple job offers.
• Score: 6-7 points.

Hot to identify A, B, C Players

C-Players

• They’re looking any job opportunity.
• They call and apply within the next week.
• They fill some the questions to application.
• Prior jobs experience is almost never completed.
• You can’t call those past managers.
• They reschedule or arrive late to the interviews on time.
• Don’t show fully committed to anything.
• They are open to whatever job is offered.
• Score: 4-5 points.

How to retain/gain A-Players

• Company Culture (family, advancement, continued education, workshops, bonuses, random acts of kindness).
• How the company is run, is well managed, organized, professional?
• Payment (ACH) weekly.
• A-players will recommend more A-Players….

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Covid-19 it’s making us rethink everything….one of those things is how we operate our cleaning business.

Why I started using VA’s?

• Back in 2015 in was invited to participate in a technology accelerator in NYC, I had no choice but to hire someone.
• Took a me a lot to let go of control.
• Helped me think through every business process.

Where to find them?

• Upwork
• Freelancer
• Taskaway

What to to look for?

• Reliable/accountable.
• Profesional writing/grammar.
• Good english writing and speaking skills.
• Minimal accent / No accent.
• Tech savvy.

What can they do?

• Sales (booking clients, quotes).
• Scheduling.
• Accounting.
• Social media posting.
• Graphic/web design.
• anything you can think of….

Tip: Pick one area that you need the most help with and start there.

How to Interview?

1. Start by writing posting a job.

2. Type clear deliverables y expectations.

• What timezone are you in and what hours are you available?
• What are your primary skills? Sales, order taking, data entry.
• Upload voiceover with your sales script -MOST IMPORTANT!
• Run international background check (Crimcheck)
• Video call.

How much to pay?

• $5-8/hr for good VA. No payroll tax.
• Offer benefits, paid vacation, birthday and Christmas presents.
• Commissions $3-5 per on new subscriptions.
• Pay weekly via Xoom direct deposit into their banks.
• Makes up a great salary in their country.

The Lean Maid Business model

• Work from home.
• Virtual assistants (sales, dispatching).
• Employees are dispatched from home.
• Use software to reduce headcount.

Reduce costs dramatically:

• Save on office rent instead use shared office/work from home.
• Use storage units $50-$100/mo vs. a warehouse.
• Direct dispatch – Employees use their cars – less driving = more cleaning.
• Use VA’s with good software.

Software I use:

• Custom booking process design in house for my cleaning service
• Pipehire – track hiring, onboarding, attendance, files, birthdays and anniversaries.
• Hubstaff – remote workers software
• Jobber – scheduling.
• Activecampaign – automated marketing.
• Textline – sms marketing
• QBO – accounting.
• Stripe – payments.
• Zapier to connect it all.

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How Pipehire can help during Covid?

• More efficient your office staff/reduce headcount.
• Organize employee files, birthdays/anniversaries.
• A reminder of expired docs.
• Hiring new cleaning employees (when it’s the time).
• Background checks for cleaning services / janitorial companies
• Complaints/compliments tracker for cleaning services / janitorial companies
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