Businesses, especially property managers, tend to have a lot of problems setting up their billing with residential-heavy carpet cleaning companies. Often, these companies force these property managers into yearly contracts. Now these property managers can be stuck with these headaches for at least a year: Bills being sent to the job site instead of the [...]
My name is Ryan Zakariasen and my family owns the Commercial Steam Team carpet cleaners in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota. I feel the best way to get to know our company is to get to know our “team”. Natalie Lande is our office administrator. She helps to ensure that the daily operations of [...]
As one of the owners of a family owned commercial carpet cleaning company South of the River in Minnesota, I write a lot of blogs based on the carpet and upholstery cleaning industry, especially about what is of particular concern to the Twin Cities Area. Today I have stepped outside that direction to cover a [...]
I own a commercial carpet cleaning company in the Twin Cities Area of Minnesota and my crews are always on the road. Usually, they are traveling from our shop in Burnsville, Minnesota to a carpet cleaning job at a Plymouth, Minnesota home to an upholstery cleaning job in Northfield, Minnesota then up to Roseville, Minnesota [...]
It is true that corporate franchises have deeper pockets than independent family owned businesses. This is definitely true in the professional carpet cleaning industry. Other than that, what are the differences between corporate franchises and family owned businesses? Franchises tend to pay closest attention to the “bottom line”. Ideals, morals, employees, and customers usually take [...]
In the professional carpet cleaning industry, the term, “professional” can be a loose term. This can be for many reasons, but the one I plan to focus on in this article are those with good intentions and training, but weak equipment. What do I mean by weak equipment? Equipment can be purchased for as little [...]
What is a residential carpet cleaning company? What are the differences between a residential carpet cleaning company and a commercial carpet cleaning company? What are some of the problems that come up when hiring a residential carpet cleaning company? Carpet cleaning started in the residential districts and residential carpet cleaning continues to be the lion’s [...]
What is a commercial carpet cleaner? What do commercial carpet cleaners do? What is the difference between commercial carpet cleaners and residential carpet cleaners? These are all good questions. The difficult part of the explanation is that commercial carpet cleaners can clean residential and residential carpet cleaners can clean commercial carpets. The question is, “who [...]
