Smart Cleaning School

The Smart Cleaning School Podcast helps cleaning business owners from start-up to the struggling solo to the striving seven-figure get SMARTER in their businesses, reshape their mindset, increase productivity, clear the overwhelm, and get clarity through SMART goal-setting & personal accountability. Ken Carfagno is a lifetime learner and teacher. His mission is to help visionaries make the impact they were meant to make.

https://www.smartcleaningschool.com

Eine durchschnittliche Folge dieses Podcasts dauert 19m. Bisher sind 427 Folge(n) erschienen. .

Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 6 days 21 hours 57 minutes

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episode 427: Pricing Series Part 1 - It's Not Your Pricing, It's Your Process


 ​I shared this exact post in a free Facebook cleaning group and thought it valuable enough to include on the podcast. Here's the post.

I'm new to this group but not to cleaning. I love this industry and helping newbies. I see pricing posts all the time and wanted to share some insights that I just shared with another member on her private question. The question goes something like this... "Is this price too high, too low? "People are so cheap...


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episode 426: Got a Name for Doing


 In early 2020, I was a brand new podcaster and member of my local chamber of commerce. My solo cleaning business was not making us much money and the pandemic was mere weeks away. That all changed with one breakfast with Ken Byler when he taught me the mindset to "Get a Name for Doing". I highly recommend listening to this original 2020 podcast to get a sense of where I was mentally at this point.

I didn't just sit on that advice. I took action right away...


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episode 425: Coaching Series Part 5 - When You're Humble, You're Teachable


I have been a huge fan of the Tim Ferriss Show lately because I love the long-from interviews with world-class performers as Tim dissects how they accomplished what they've accomplished. I LOVED a recent interview with Kelly Slater. If you've never heard of Kelly Slater, he's an 11-time world surfing champion and highly regarded as the GOAT in the sport...


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episode 424: Coaching Series Part 4 - Characteristics of Coachability


 This episode wraps up our 4-part coaching series to teach you what it means to be truly coachable. This episode is a clip from a recent Solo Elite Membership Call addressing the 4 characteristics that determine how coachable YOU are. I hope you listen and learn. Then I hope you evaluate your own level of coachability...


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episode 423: Coaching Series Part 3 - Are You Truly Coachable?


This is a great follow up to "The Value of Coaching with Josh Melton". Josh has been coaching me through Marco Polo in 2023. I ask him questions and he responds. I am very coachable, so the content of my questions evolves over time from basic how-to questions to leadership and how my coach thinks questions. My goal is understand the Mind of Josh...


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 February 26, 2024  19m
 
 

episode 422: Coaching Series Part 2 - We All Need a Coach


My wife and I were enjoying breakfast at Postively 4th Street Cafe in Ocean City, NJ. We love this place and especially the lattes. Oh my, they are good! During our connecting time, we were searching for ways to improve our business and effectiveness as parents. I asked the question. "How can we become 10 Talent People in each area of our life?" This is a reference to a story that Jesus teaches in the Book of Matthew. I'll read it...


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 February 19, 2024  17m
 
 

episode 421: Coaching Series Part 1 - The Value of Coaching


This original interview was released in April 2022 right after our family got home from our first month-long trip to the Gulf Coast of Florida. I hired Josh to be my coach to take me from a solo optimizer to a commercial cleaner with a team that would allow me to go to Florida for a month. He did and we went! The reason we succeeded is my coachability. In fact, the reason anyone succeeds to higher levels is determined by the value they place on coaching and how coachable they are...


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 February 12, 2024  1h14m
 
 

episode 420: Take the Emotion Out of Pricing


 In a recent Solo Elite Membership Call, we talked about one of the biggest struggles in the cleaning industry. This struggle is especially challenging for newbies. And it's not just pricing and how to price. This clip from the Solo Elite walks you through how to remove the emotion around the pricing you give. Wouldn't that be an awesome skill to learn? It will take a few vital other skills.

 1.      You MUST be willing to track your cleaning times and analyze them...


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 February 5, 2024  14m
 
 

episode 419: Finding Your Fish


 In a recent Solo Elite Membership Call, we talked about finding your ideal customer and niching. Unfortunately, most new cleaners will take anyone and anywhere. This is not ideal because you allow others to dictate the terms of your business. You need to set your own terms to be a real business. One of those terms is WHO will you serve and WHY?

 I use the analogy of fishing to parallel how to find our ideal customers.

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 January 29, 2024  34m
 
 

episode 418: Best Of - Audio Alibis


 Much time is needed in this podcast episode to clear the names of several members of Total Life Freedom Philly. Before I share the final installment of 'Who Paid for Lunch Clue', I must share a few things that happened in my cleaning business since my last update. It will be short. Trust me! First of all, I was asked to lead an education piece for my local MCBA networking group. I taught on the "They Ask You Answer" process...


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 January 22, 2024  30m