Cleaning Up: A Commercial Cleaning Podcast
A podcast about all things business, commercial cleaning, and franchising. Each episode brings new insights on growing and building a janitorial business. Topics include business strategies, franchising opportunities, and cleaning industry trends. Hosted by Damien Boehm.
Episodes
The Content Advantage: Glenn Watford on Winning as a Small Business
Glenn Watford from Franchise Buyers knows a thing or two about reinvention. After years in the magazine world, he recognised early that traditional media was shifting — and he made a bold pivot into content marketing long before it became the go‑to strategy for small businesses. That early adoption gave him a front‑row seat to what works, what doesn’t, and how small businesses can use content to b
What 10+ Years at Urban Clean Taught Kirk Simpson About Winning in Franchising
Kirk’s career has been anything but ordinary. He started out working on farms, moved into workshop roles, and later transitioned into sales. Along the way, he even played a part in the creation of the iconic strawberry sundae at the Ekka.Now, after more than ten years with Urban Clean, Kirk shares his insights on what makes a franchise system truly effective — and how franchisees can supercharge t
How Banks REALLY Decide Which Franchises Are Worth Funding
Starting a franchise is exciting, but it’s completely normal to feel anxious about the financial side. In this interview, Urban Clean founder Damien Boehm discusses how banks typically assess franchise systems — offering insights that can help make the lending process feel more predictable and easier to understand for people stepping into business ownership for the first time.
Business Coaching With Bill Stack
In this episode of Cleaning Up, Damien Boehm interviews Bill Stack. Over the last 11 years, Bill has helped over 300 business owners improve their profitability through sales, marketing, team training systems development and strategic planning and he’s done this both in the U.S. and Australian markets,He was someone who was my coach as we started franchising Urban Clean and continues to work with
How to Employ Cleaners for Profit
In this episode Damien Boehm covers employing cleaners in your cleaning business.This is such an important topic because you can't do all the cleaning. Once you start growing your business to a certain size you’ll need help. This episode is relevant to someone who is just starting out in their cleaning business and getting to that point where they do need to add on staff members, but also inc
The One Thing You Must Have to Succeed in Your Business
In this episode of Cleaning Up, Damien Boehm shares the one thing that has helped him succeed in growing a multimillion dollar cleaning business.And it’s not a strategy, sales tactic, or masterful business plan - It’s the right attitude. This week we leave sales strategies, client retention strategies and business growth tactics to focus on mindset. But this is no wishy-washy episode. You’ll learn
How to Keep Cleaning Clients for Life
In this episode you'll learn how to keep customers for life. There is no point winning business only to lose it. If you want to make money in commercial cleaning you absolutely need to know how to retain clients.Today, I’m going to share with you the 3 steps I use to retain clients.Winning contracts is sexy and exciting but in reality the game is won or lost on customer retention. For more in
How to Grow Your Cleaning Business With Strategic Partnerships
In today’s episode we’ll be covering how to grow your commercial cleaning business with strategic partnerships.In this podcast, Damien Boehm shares with you how he got strategic partnerships into his business and how he made them work and how you can too.We’ll be coveringWhy you want themWho you want to partner withHow to find themWhat agreements to makeHow to make them work and lastlyThe 3 Major
How to Franchise a Cleaning Business
In this episode, Damien Boehm covers converting a standard commercial cleaning business into a franchise operation.We’ll be coveringWhat size your business should be or should aim to be for franchising to make senseWhy so many cleaning businesses struggle to pass $500K in revenueWhat benefits you get when you turn a cleaning business into a franchise operationThe steps you need to take to franchis
Can You Add 2 Million Dollars to Your Cleaning Business in 1 Year?
Add 2 million dollars in revenue in one year?Is this even possible? Can a single individual do this in their business?This episode is about hardcore sales. Your host Damien Boehm is going to be covering the exact steps needed to reach this sales targetHe’ll be coveringMarketing StrategiesSales conversion ratesCosts of marketing &What it actually takes to achieve these numbersThis episode is no
How to Win Commercial Cleaning Contracts
How to Win Commercial Cleaning ContractsIn this podcast, Damien Boehm reveals the process he’s used and taught others to use that's resulted in them winning more than half a million dollars worth of new commercial cleaning contracts in a single year without spending a dime on advertising.You’ll learn:What you need to have before you can win commercial cleaning contractsWhich marketing strateg
Franchise or Independent?
When does it make sense to buy a commercial cleaning franchise? Is it better to stay independent?This podcast covers the pros and cons of investing into a franchise, when it make sense and who should never buy a franchise.In this episode you'll learnthe pros and cons of buying a franchisehow to decide if franchising is right or wrong for youhow to compare different commercial cleaning franchi
How Franchising Should Work in the Commercial Cleaning Industry
In this episode, I get Urban Clean’s General Manager Kirk Simpson to join the show. Some harsh things get said about the commercial cleaning industry and franchising in the sector. There is a solution, but it’s unique and unconventional. We discuss what is typical for a cleaning business and franchising in the industry, why the industry is broken and how up until now the typical commercial cleanin
Making Money with Toilet Paper
Host: Damien Boehm, Guests: Terry Maguire and Casey De VeneIn this episode we coverHow a cleaning company can maximise its partnership with a cleaning supply businessHow a cleaning supply business can help a cleaning companyHow to monitor and control product and paper supplies We’ll also revealThe gaps most cleaning businesses haveSome secrets to winning cleaning accountsTerry Maguire and Casey De
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