A podcast about all things business, commercial cleaning, and franchising! Each episode, we bring new insights on growing and building a janitorial business. We discuss business, franchising, and all things cleaning. Hosted by Damien Boehm
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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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 covering Why you want them Who you want to partner with How to find them What agreements to make How to make them work and lastly The…
In this episode, Damien Boehm covers converting a standard commercial cleaning business into a franchise operation. We’ll be covering What size your business should be or should aim to be for franchising to make sense Why so many cleaning businesses struggle to pass $500K in revenue What benefits you get when you turn a cleaning business into a franchise operation The steps you need to take to…
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 target He’ll be covering Marketing Strategies Sales conversion rates Costs of marketing & What it actually takes to achieve these numbers This episode…