Tag: Alexandria House Cleaners
Five Steps to Prepare for a Cleaning With An Infant At Home
Hello! If you clicked on this, there’s a good chance you have a newborn at home. Congratulations! My wife and I just welcomed our second little boy in August and, in the words of a friend, we are IN it. You know it too well — IN it in the sense of feedings every 2 …..
Growth Story — Service and Technology
Several years ago we had a great article written about us during our initial launch that mentioned the ease and convenience of booking a cleaning through our website. There were, of course, some public comments — good and bad — but one comment, in particular, stood out to me. Here it is: Here’s how I …..
The SOUL of Our Brand
Heart of WellNest House Cleaning A couple of weeks ago I was filling out a form about WellNest and was asked, “What is the SOUL of your brand?” Here was my response: The soul of our brand is the mastery of our customer persona. As customers ourselves, my wife and I designed the business around …..
Managing Seasonality in the Residential Cleaning Business
The Ups & Downs of House Cleaning Services Recently the topic of Managing Seasonality has come up often in our business. The nature of our business is that of recurring work — weekly, biweekly, and monthly customers. It’s fairly routine but we do have seasonality challenges to manage. Often seasonal customer growth is directly counteracted …..
4 Reasons Why Your Neighbors Are Hiring Us
Why Hire WellNest for House Cleaning Our cleaning service has grown from just 2 part-time employees at launch in June 2016 to over 20 full-time employees today, just 18 months later. All of our success has been attributed to word-of-mouth referrals between friends and neighbors. How? Here’s what we know, using actual customer quotes. “WellNest has …..
Three Simple Tips To Maximize The Most of Your House Cleaning
How to Get the Most from House Cleaning Service As the owner of a cleaning company, one of the most common questions I receive is “how can we get the best cleaning possible?” No cleaning crew will ever be perfect simply because no human is perfect. I am confident we at WellNest get as close …..
My Company Survived Year 1 — Here’s What I Learned
WellNest House Cleaners at One Exactly one year ago we began servicing customers as a residential cleaning company. We had a team of three part-time employees, my wife, and myself. I am personally stoked to say that in just 12 months we are now the same size as an average brand name M___ Maids franchise …..
What I’ve Learned As A First-Time Entrepreneur
House Cleaning Service – Managers Perspective Hello! WellNest Home Services is 7 months old. With over 100 subscribed customers and a retention rate that remains over 90%, we are knocking on the door of having a scalable, sustainable business. It’s been challenging, rewarding, frustrating, miserable, all the feelings. I was recently asked by a former …..
WellNest in the News!
Smart Growth Cleaning Company Keeps Winning! We just published a blog post on the importance of celebrating all the wins in business, both small and large. Read it here! There’s one particular area that leads to a celebration for small business… media coverage. Media coverage validates the business concept, spreads brand awareness, and gives credibility …..
Dadpreneur Series: The Problem with Perfectionism
Good, Better and Best – Learning with WellNest I keep finding myself coming across the same struggle the past couple weeks with both taking care of the little man and building WellNest Home Cleaning — perfectionism. Perfectionism will kill a start-up before it even launches. Whether it’s tech, a residential cleaning service, a new granola …..