Savvy Cleaner - Training for House Cleaners and Maids

5 easy ways to avoid burnout in house cleaning. That's what Angela Brown, The House Cleaning Guru is talking about today. Want to revitalize, restore and regenerate your life? You can anticipate burnout and renew your cleaning business. These free strategies will help you avoid burnout in life and help you avoid burnout at work. From mini vacations to new interests and hobbies - you can recondition your enthusiasm and thrive.

Family & Friends and Your Airbnb or VRBO - How involved should they be? Can they come to visit whenever? Or as a host should you offer a limited number of buddy passes for family and friends? Angela Brown, The House Cleaning Guru answers your questions in today's Vacation Rental Mailbag If you do allow friends and family in your #VacationRental should you charge them a cleaning fee? Or is it a night’s stay with no strings attached? If you are the housekeeper can you have family and friends help with the turnover service? Or does that jeopardize your business reputation?

Bribes don't work. If you want to know the real way to get kids to clean their rooms it comes down to a community. Everybody wants to belong to a community. And kids love structure and schedules. Angela Brown, The House Cleaning Guru says cleaning is easy when it's routine. Create a cleaning system and family cleaning projects. This goes beyond chores for kids. It's teaching kids responsibility and accountability. Teach kids how to clean and hold a room inspection. When the kids know what you're looking for, they can rise to the occasion.

Need to know how to fix gouges, dents, dings, scuffs, and scratches in hardwood floors and wood furniture? Angela Brown, The House Cleaning Guru show us in this Guardsman furniture repair kit #ProductReview Learn how to repair scratches in wood furniture using wood fill sticks and furniture markers. Filler sticks may be the secret sauce to making hardwood floors look great again.

Here are the do's and don'ts of guestbook reviews for your #vacationrental or Airbnb. Some housekeepers or house cleaners want to leave a tips envelope for turnover services. Angela Brown, The House Cleaning Guru says the Airbnb host needs to make the Airbnb guest feel like a celebrity first. Then guestbooks will fill with positive ratings and reviews. And that's social proof you're the king of Airbnb hosting, STR (short-term rentals) or VRBO.

Did you know that a pre-walkthrough is THE SECRET to house cleaning? Professional house cleaning and DIY cleaning both need a house cleaning walkthrough. This allows you to arrange your multi-task cleaning and stick to your cleaning schedule. Angela Brown, The House Cleaning Guru says a cleaning routine is great. But use a flashlight to clean. You might even have a cleaning light on phone in hand.

Do you want to know how to make money with a drill brush power scrubber? We'll show you how in today's #AskaHouseCleaner Drill bit brush set #ProductReview Angela Brown uses a drill brush for leather sofas after applying Meguiar's leather conditioner. And she uses Murphy oil soap and a drill brush for kitchen cabinets. It's an upsell but she uses a drill brush for grout cleanup in icky showers. And she even made a drill brush splatter guard for the grout clean up so spinning bleach won't ruin your clothes. If you have a house cleaning cancellation and you own an electric drill, you can upsell your clients with drill brush cleaning.

How to get the icky, sticky, greasy gunk off kitchen cupboards is today's #AskaHouseCleaner. You'll see Angela Brown cleaning with Murphy's Oil Soap and the OXO Deep Clean Brush Set. Any house cleaner can upsell #Cleaning services to a kitchen cabinet gunk remover package. The Drill Brush Power Scrubber will make cleaning extremely thick grease from kitchen cabinets a breeze. Once you know how to clean kitchen cabinets - you can fill in the slow months of your house cleaning business with this upsell. Now, come clean with me. #Product Review

Angela Brown's Top 10 repair creams or hand creams for house cleaners will give your cracked skin relief. If you have rough hands and need an itch defense or a formula with vitamin E, you're in the right place. Dry chapped skin that needs an intensive hand cream, we've got you covered. From Aveeno, Bag Balm, Curel and Cetaphil every house cleaner can find a hand lotion. Vaseline, Eucerin, Gold Bond and O'Keeffe's Working Hands are also on our list. And don't forget Palmer's Cocoa Butter and Neutrogena. We even cover a moisturizer for eczema relief.

Ageism - Age discrimination for house cleaners is our topic of today's #AskaHouseCleaner. Angela Brown, The House Cleaning Guru says never assume you're too old to clean. You need to know how to ace a job interview and sell your strengths in house cleaning. Age discrimination and ageism in the workplace are against the law. Highlight the best of your employment history and make the Age Discrimination in Employment Act work in your favor.

"Our Airbnb guests ruined towels and linens - what do we do?" Angela Brown, The House Cleaning gives options for ruined towels and linens in today's Vacation Rental Mailbag. You can list in your house rules an extra charge for ruined towels and linens. In your standard amenities include makeup remover, makeup remover wipes, and makeup remover towels. OxiClean is a good product to get white towels white again. And the caretaker, housekeeper, partners or Airbnb Host who does the turnover service can do that.

Maid steals clients time - and homeowners in uproar speak out. If you're working from home you need rules and regulations and expectations in place for your house cleaners. Time is a precious commodity. You've outsourced your #Cleaning and you're not a free therapist. A maid is paid to work, not paid to chat. A maid is stealing when she plays #dramaqueen on the clock. Angela Brown, The House Cleaning Guru says you both should be working and following the sixty-second rule.