International Janitorial Cleaning Services Association

Turn this in with all bids if these franchise are around, you might want to include names of franchise in your area.

Coverall Cleaning Concepts, Jani-King, Maid to Order, Merry Maids, Servicemaster, House Doctors, The Maids

Have you heard of these franchises? They sound like big names, well they are. They are big corporate companies that do there best to have you as a customer.

What happens though is usually poor service and unfilled promises.

Let me tell you why not to hire a janitorial franchise. The average janitorial franchise costs $1500 to start, At Your Business Name Here that is not even the cost of the training that each basic staff member receives yearly, or come to think about the work vans have more than $1500.00 in equipment in them to service your facility.

I just started cleaning last week for the franchise? Seems everyone is getting into the cleaning business these days. Your Business Name Here has over 10 years of field training and the references to back it up.

References: A franchise owner will show you a long list of references, well in most cases they are franchise customers, just this franchise owner never cleaned any of them. Ask this person for references of places they have personally cleaned, then call on them. I mean it call them, you will get an honest opinion of this service provider.

The franchise owner will tell you "We have support from corporate office"…. We at Purity laugh at this. What they do as the franchise owner is support the corporate office by usually 10% of the monthly fee they charge you the customer. This fee returns back to the corporate office roughly for 3-6 months. In the cleaning business profits are usually only 8 to10 percent, that means for three months or longer these service owners are working for no profit whatsoever.

Would you work for no profit? Probably not, would you work for free? What ends up happening usually is that
1-Taxes are not paid.
2- The cleaning becomes substandard
3- They start diluting or stop using the cleaning chemicals to make up for the cost.
4- They start cutting corners cut an hour off the cleaning time here, two hours there...etc, etc.

The list can go on and on.

So no profit, terrible service equals? You calling the corporate office, Then corporate promises you the world saying that we will solve the problem…. Here`s where it gets real exciting. They sell the account again to another franchise owner, (they sell you the customer) to another newbie in our area. They collect 10% again for three months to six months and to make it fair they give the franchise owner that left, another account, and then collect 10% again..
The cycle never ends

Not included – Most franchise companies do not include chemicals, paper supplies or equipment, read your service agreements carefully. Very Carefully! Why are these common things not included? Why do they not include a simple vacuum? Because the franchise owner cannot afford to purchase anything he/she has to pay the corporate office there percentages.

Say no to the franchise and say yes to Your Business Name Here! Locally owned, operated and serving for over 10 years.

Our basic staff has more experience than the franchise owner. Oh yes before we forget roughly 1000 job references from places that we actually cleaned.

Sincerely,