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Boston’s Best Commercial Cleaning opens West Palm Beach Office

I wanted to do a quick blog to update everyone on the new corporate address for our company. The Boston’s Best Commercial Cleaning team opened a commercial cleaning division in West Palm Beach, FL. The company services clients from Boynton to Jupiter area.

The Boston commercial division is growing strongly at a fast rate with a very high retention rate of 97% of clients year over year.

Most recently we were awarded by Icic.org for our tremendous growth in the Boston area. We are grateful for all the great clients we continue to renew service over the years and hope to continue to be of service for years to come.

Our corporate office is now located in West Palm Beach FL in order to streamline administrative tasks. All accounts payable and accounts receivables should be mailed to 538 Northwood Rd. West Palm Beach FL 33407.

Looking forward to the spring 😉
Warmly,
Victoria

Posted by on March 12, 2018
Commercial Cleaning

Boston’s Commercial Cleaning Company

Michael Porter, Victoria of Tremendous Maid / Boston’s Best Commercial Cleaning & Steve from ICIC.org

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
October 4, 2017

Boston’s Tremendous Maid dba Boston’s Best Commercial Cleaning among the fastest-growing inner city businesses in America Annual ranking published by the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City and Fortune recognizes high-growth companies in urban areas Boston – The Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC) and Fortune announced yesterday that Tremendous Maid dba Boston’s Best Commercial Cleaning has made the 2017 Inner City 100 list. The list, which was revealed at the 19th Annual Awards and Conference in Boston on October 3rd, ranks the fastest-growing inner city businesses in America by revenue growth. Tremendous Maid ranked 45 on the list of 100, and reported 2016 revenues over $1M and a five-year growth rate of 171% from 2012-2016. Tremendous Maid’s feature and the full list is available on Fortune’s website.

ICIC’s Inner City 100 list seeks to celebrate and enable urban entrepreneurship. Over the course of nearly 20 years ICIC has awarded 928 companies whose success illuminates the innovation and business growth happening in our inner cities. Inner City 100 companies are forces of economic opportunity, optimism and transformation in their communities. Providing a platform for recognition, networking and learning, the Inner City 100 program continues to open doors for other budding urban entrepreneurs and stimulate inner city business development and job creation.

“We are extraordinarily proud of these pioneering entrepreneurs who lead the way in innovation, job creation and the economic revitalization of America’s inner cities,” said Steve Grossman, CEO of ICIC. “In addition to excellence in business, they have also demonstrated a deep commitment to and passion for their communities, which plays a huge role in the wellbeing of their local economies,” he said.

In addition to being published in Fortune, CEOs from the winning companies were invited to the Inner City 100 Conference and Awards, a full-day event featuring robust networking opportunities and educational sessions led by executives and academics from top-tier universities, including Harvard Business School and New York University. Past winners have reported connecting with multi-million dollar investors as a result of appearing on the Inner City 100 list and attending the Conference.

Keynote speakers at this year’s event included former CEO of Constant Contact, Gail Goodman; award winner and CEO of the Menkiti Group, Bo Menkiti; and Harvard Business School Professor and ICIC Founder and Chairman Michael E. Porter. Other speakers included Tom Lewand, CEO of Shinola, David Segura, CEO of VisionIT, Lynda Applegate of Harvard Business School, and David Whitford, Editor-at-

Large at Inc. Magazine. ICIC also celebrated 17 businesses as members of the Inner City 100 “Hall of Fame,” which recognizes companies that have achieved making the list at least five times.
Boasting an average five-year growth rate of 320% between 2012 and 2016, the 2017 Inner City 100 companies represent a wide range of geography, hailing from 27 states. Collectively, the winners employed 9,402 people in 2016, and on average 42% of their employees live in the same neighborhood as the company.

Highlights of the 2017 Inner City 100 include:
♣ Employed 9,402 individuals in 2016.
♣ Created 5,724 new jobs in the last five years.
♣ On average, 42% of employees live in same neighborhood as the company.
♣ Average company age is 16 years.
♣ Average 2016 revenue is $13.1 million.
♣ 32% are women-owned.
♣ 45% are minority-led.
♣ 29 industries represented in the top 100.

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Inner City 100 Methodology: The Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC) defines inner cities as core urban areas with higher unemployment and poverty rates and lower median incomes than their surrounding metropolitan statistical areas. Every year, ICIC identifies, ranks, and awards the 100 fastest-growing businesses located in America’s inner cities. In 2017, companies were ranked by revenue growth over the five-year period between 2012 and 2016. This list was audited by the independent accounting firm Rucci, Bardaro, and Falzone, PC.

Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC)
ICIC is a national nonprofit founded by Harvard Business School professor Michael E. Porter. ICIC’s mission is to promote economic prosperity in America’s inner cities through private sector investment that leads to jobs, income and wealth creation for local residents. Through its research on inner city economies, ICIC provides businesses, governments and investors with the most comprehensive and actionable information in the field about urban market opportunities. The organization supports urban businesses through the Inner City 100, Inner City Capital Connections and the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses programs. Learn more at www.icic.org or @icicorg.

Media contacts:
Victoria Amador, CEO, Tremendous Maid / Boston’s Best Commercial Cleaning
Tel 617-553-1393
Victoria@BostonsBestCommercialCleaning

Hannah Roccki, Senior Communications Associate, ICIC
(617) 238-3010
hroccki@icic.org

Posted by on October 4, 2017
Commercial Cleaning

Boston’s Best Commercial Cleaning on Fortune Magazine

Tremendous Maid also known as Boston’s Best Commercial Cleaning was recognized as a winner of the Inner City 100 making the #45 spot. Every year ICIC.org recognizes and celebrates the fast-growing inner city companies in the USA. The list is published in Fortune Magazine (http://fortune.com/inner-city-100/)

Yay! We are in Fortune Magazine – I’ve been looking forward to becoming a winner for 3 years now so I am super excited! We would not have been able to be qualify let alone become a winner if we didn’t have the clients and a group of employees that are so loyal and proud of the type of work we do for our clients.

I want to thank our clients dearly for being part of our Tremendous Maid / Boston’s Best Commercial Family. We are grateful for your continued loyalty. Some of you have become our biggest supporters, have introduced /referred us to other companies / individuals that then become our clients too and our team and I are deeply grateful to each one of you!

Here is the link again – http://fortune.com/inner-city-100/

Warmly,
Victoria
P.S. Please continue to refer us to your network! It’s the last quarter of 2017 and we want to start 2018 with full force and huge goals 😉


Posted by on October 4, 2017
Resources

Prepare for 2018 Now with these Free Resources

We wanted to collect these free tips and resources for you…we are thinking of how to be proactive and become highly effective as you go into the fall and winter in Boston. I know from personal experience that in Dec we get tons of potential new clients requesting quotes and the #1 complaint from managers is that many companies are slow in responding because of the holidays…so we want to encourage you to get your proposals in before Nov so your budget can be done before end of the year…sometimes some of our clients have mention that their budget is being finalized in February!!! 2-3 months behind schedule so lets be proactive this year and get your goals and quotes / proposals before Halloween comes around 😉

Happy Fall!

Posted by on September 13, 2017
Commercial Cleaning, Resources

What Makes a Good Commercial Cleaning Service Good?

So really what makes a good commercial cleaning service good? Don’t you wonder sometimes how to pick the right company? What info you should give prospective cleaning service companies so you can compare apples to apples? I have been dealing with contractors and I just don’t understand how most of these contractors survive – they can be so late in responding to clients about important questions that its hard for me to imagine ever doing that to my clients.

This is the reason we have spent years working on guides, reports and infographics to help
consumers particularly based in Boston, MA determine their commercial cleaning service needs, how to put together RFPs for cleaning services, how much others are paying for cleaning services and much more.

Take a look here: https://bostonsbestcommercialcleaning.com/resources/

I promise you that we will not spam you. We use your email to deliver quality information only and do so sporadically (we don’t want to send you junk but good info that adds value to you and your colleagues).

In our Resources page you will find reports on:

  • Property Management guides for Safety and Security ideas,
  • 12 Tips Decision Guide for your cleaning service
  • Guide for Setting your Budget for commercial cleaning services
  • A guide on how Clean Facilities Are not just a cost, they generate revenue!
  • Best practices guide & infographic to writing an RFP for professional commercial cleaning services
  • Guide & Infographic on How is your cleaning service an investment in your company’s growth?
  • Infographic on 6 qualities of potential clients who are not a good fit for Boston’s Best Commercial Cleaning
  • Carpet guide and health issues
  • Infographic on survey response from our clients and how much they pay for cleaning services

I hope you find it helpful. Email me or subscribe to our newsletter to stay in touch with us.

Cheers!
Victoria

Posted by on August 29, 2017
Commercial Cleaning, Resources

How Much to Allocate to Cleaning Costs?

Image from Cleaning Costs Infographic

Image from Infographic on Survey Responses from BBCC Clients

Do you find yourself wondering how much to allocate to cleaning costs in Boston, MA? But its so hard to find out because people don’t normally share this info…so we did a client survey to figure out how much they spend as a percentage of revenues in cleaning services. We surveyed mostly Property Managers and Administration Managers / Office Managers of Professional Office Spaces (Marketing Offices, Information Tech Offices, etc.). Its important to know that this is only for Boston Metro Area —the data would vary widely depending on location.

We figured 2 important things that may help you if you are trying to put a cleaning budget together for your business. #1 The Janitorial / Cleaning costs as a percentage of gross revenues depends heavily on how many employees these companies have in that particular branch / office. And #2 how many visitors normally visit the facility.

Basically, Managers who reported allocating 1% of their revenues in cleaning costs have 2 things in common: #1 they have more than 10 employees in the facility and some visitors on a daily basis coming in and out of that particular facility. And #2 The companies spending less than 1% in cleaning costs have less than 7 employees and almost no visitors on a daily basis to their place of business.

The companies who spend 2% or higher in cleaning costs per year have more than 25 employees working from that specific facility and have a high number of customer visits to their place of business. For example, a high end building that we clean for in Boston – spends 3% of their revenues in cleaning costs, its a high-end condo building and the building normally has over 50 employees throughout the day. We clean 7 days per week. This high-end residential building is allocating 3% of their gross revenues to cleaning costs because of the type of condo-owners and their needs for a 5 star cleaning service 7/days per week.

View the infographic here. And find out what these managers also said is most important to them from a cleaning service company.

Keep in mind that cleaning costs don’t have to be high to be effective. Every company is different, you have to find a company that can understand your needs. The more info you share during your meeting with the different janitorial companies, the better they would be able to put together a proposal that makes sense to address your needs.

I hope this has been helpful!

Cheers!
Victoria

Posted by on October 17, 2016
Resources

Indemnification & Non-Solicitation Agreements?

Yes! I sent this over to our clients but I couldn’t resist posting it because I find these stuff fascinating!

Yesterday, I had the great pleasure of meeting with Cole Young, a partner at Strang, Scott, Giroux & Young LLP, a law firm which primarily focuses on construction and commercial real estate transactions and litigation.  I got the opportunity to get some valuable advice from Cole. I wanted to take the opportunity to share some of his blog posts here because I found them to be of great value.

BTW – this doesnt apply only to construction, this statute applies to any of us hiring contractors to perform work/services for us –including Property Managers, Office Managers, Developers, Business Owners, etc.

Directly from Cole’s blog post: “In most construction projects, general contractors require subcontractors to indemnify the general contractor for the subcontractor’s negligent actions.  Meaning, if the subcontractor’s negligence causes injury to a third-party and that third-party sues the general contractor, the subcontractor agrees to defend the general contractor.  Often times, general contractors will attempt to go a step further and seek indemnification from the subcontractor for injuries beyond the subcontractor’s control.  In Massachusetts, such provisions are void.”    Read the full blog post here http://www.strangscott.com/subcontractors-indemnification-with-general-contractor-is-it-void/

Also if you are looking to get some good advice on Non-Competes Agreements, here is a great blog post on the matter. We use Non-competes so I found this post fascinating!

Have a great weekend!

– Victoria

p.s. And a blog on How to Protect your confidential business info here 😉

Posted by on October 14, 2016
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Commercial Cleaning on a Budget

Whether you are a large company or a one-man business Commercial Cleaning is something you cannot ignore. For big business not having a clean environment for your staff to work in is one of the worst economies you can make. A dirty work area is bad for moral, wastes valuable work time and can be detrimental to the health of your staff.

As a worker if you work in a dirty environment there is only so much you can take, so after a while you have to stop your paid work to clean up. Emptying bins, washing cups or just generally dusting machinery and work surfaces, has to be done sometimes. No one enjoys picking up a dirty phone or dialling on a grease covered keypad. These are the sort of things that build up when proper cleaning services are not used. As a worker it distracts you from what you are paid to do and as a boss, why are you paying trained or qualified staff to empty bins? If you are the boss cleaning your own work space, then this is an unproductive waste of your time.

When you are on a tight budget as everyone is nowadays, cleaning may seem to be a big outlay for no return, but the actual return you gain is more productivity from your staff, more focussed work and direct action. Everyone needs to drink liquids through the day, so eventually the cups have to be washed and someone has to do it. So what you need to consider is exactly what you need cleaners to do. This may seem obvious but when you start to look at cleaning companies in the area you start to realise not every corporate cleaning company is the same.

First what needs doing to keep your offices clean and tidy? Do the bins need emptying daily or twice weekly? Do you need the carpet hoovering and the floor moped in the kitchens or dining areas, and how often? Who washes the mugs, or do you use vending machine cups and if so does this cause a need for more bins to be emptied. Do your kitchens stay fairly clean or do people leave them in a mess? If they are in a mess they can definitely be a health hazard if not cleaned daily. The toilets are another area that really need cleaning daily in a big company. This is an area that should not be left to chance and if you are a really big company or in the food business then more than once a day may be necessary.

Once you have found what you need then you should talk to a few companies, many will give you quotes for their services, but how many will discuss your needs and tailor their services to fit. That is why, here at Boston’s Best Commercial Cleaning Company we build our services around you. We will happily discuss your needs and we will build the right cleaning package around your needs and within your budget so that you can have happy workers in a clean environment

Posted by on September 1, 2016
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How Cleaning Impacts on Employee Productivity

When people come to work they need to have a clean environment to work in. If the place is dirty no one really wants to be there. This not only makes them miserable it can cause stress and ill health. Regular cleaning is important to maintain a germ free environment and a dirty environment encourages germs to grow and spread from person to person. This can lead to more absenteeism through coughs colds and viruses, which can be more widely spread generally across the workplace.

The work place is a common source of stress in our lives and working in a dirty environment can contribute to the stress of the job, making the employee less likely to want to be at work. If you visit someone who’s house is untidy and dirty it is human nature not to want to stay too long. You get out of there as fast as possible and this is how people feel about a dirty workplace.

A clean environment with a fresh atmosphere makes people feel happier. Happier staff are much more productive and inventive, than unhappy staff. Happy staff will also give a better image to your clients and suppliers when they communicate with them, their happiness shows. Just as unhappy staff are likely to be more sharp and matter of fact, making them feel unapproachable and not easy to communicate with. Basically a good work environment has been proved to raise efficiency, cooperation, initiative, and moral which results in people being more focussed achieving results faster and generally being more productive.

If people feel they have to come to work even if they are unwell, this can also have an adverse effect on other staff moral and hence your bottom line. A study has shown that ill worker can be more of a distraction to the staff than a benefit, as no one can fail to notice them coughing and sneezing and this can be disruptive in meetings and also spreads the germs to other staff, causing a whole department to become ill. These germs will also spread so much more easily if the workplace is not properly cleaned

If you are not sure how well your cleaning program is affecting your staff, then it is time to find out. If you are a small company talk to them, if you are a large company then maybe an email survey with room for suggestions. It is important you get the right answers not the ones you want to hear so make sure your contact is in a way that your staff feel they can be honest. They may have been complaining to their managers for some time about the state of the place but if the managers are also of the mind that cleaning is an unimportant cost, then the complaints, suggestions and ideas may have gone unnoticed. Walk around the offices unannounced and observe for yourself how clean the workplace and how happy the staff are. Then you can see with your own eyes if your cleaning regime needs revamping to make your productivity improve, or whether you think you have it right

 

Posted by on September 1, 2016