Year-in-review
As a small business owner, with the year ending you might be reflecting on the changing market and economic trends. Coming into the new year, reconsidering some of your business goals might help keep you on track to meet them, especially in a fluctuating market.
Maybe your new online start-up has boomed over the past few years of working remotely, and now you’re keen to open up a physical storefront. Or perhaps your lease is coming to an end, and you’re considering combining your company’s warehouse and retail storefront.
Regardless of your experience as a small business owner, moving can be a cumbersome task. Many entrepreneurs don’t often consider the extensive daily demands of actually running a commercial space. Some of these demands might include dealing with stock inventory, arranging displays, doing payroll, and the general cleaning or maintenance of the space. Customers also expect a high level of cleanliness walking into a storefront, often higher than that of your home workspace filled with coffee-stained mugs and loose papers…
Particularly today, more people than ever care about living and working in a clean, healthy environment. Whether it’s just you tackling the maintenance of your space or your small expanding team, it might be time to reconsider how often your space gets professionally cleaned. A commercial cleaning service allows you to focus more time on actually running your business and less on letting the demands of it run you!
Keeping your space to a professional level of cleanliness is more involved than you might think. Hiring a third-party cleaning service also gives you the assurance that your business is meeting local accident prevention and food safety guidelines. Plus, they have the proper equipment to be able to tackle deep cleaning such as power washing of windows and parking lots, extensive dusting of shelves and inventory, as well as sterilization of surfaces. It also allows you to save costs on purchasing and maintaining heavy-duty cleaning equipment.
Better first impressions
We all know our best cleaning face comes out when we have company over. With that in mind, the same level of care should be shown in your new storefront, as it demonstrates a real care for the quality of your services.
These first impressions matter for customers, especially as a new business. Aside from an aesthetic standpoint of keeping the space visually clean, we also associate cleanliness and odours with our mood. While smells are subjective, they can elicit a positive or negative association with them. For example, scents like citrus or eucalyptus are known to be alerting scents that energize you, whereas lavender is a warm scent that is associated with relaxation and calmness. Harsh cleaning products can also have particularly acidic or chemical-based odours that can be off-putting to customers. This is why at Cameron Building Maintenance, we’re very conscientious about what types of cleaning products we use. We strive to use mostly chemical-free natural cleaning products that don’t leave harsh lingering odours.
Leave the deep cleaning to the professional cleaners
Start your year off right with a fresh new face for your business! Our goal as a janitorial company is to help your business thrive by keeping spaces clean and healthy so you can give your attention to what you do best. We work with all kinds of commercial, government, and institutional clients, and are proud to be known for our cleaning expertise in the Okanagan.
Feel free to reach out to us for an assessment of your storefront’s maintenance needs!
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