Part of being a professional carpet cleaner is being a salesman.  Not only do you need to be able to clean well, but you should be able to effectively communicate your other services.  Each cleaning technician can only do so much work in a given year.  However, a technician can increase their sales dollars by improving their salesmanship.

In the cleaning business ourselves, we know we don’t want to hard sell customers.  Not only do customers not like the high pressure sales tactics, but we feel uncomfortable pushing sales on a customer as well.  Proper balance is needed.  The secret is to communicate all add-on services, but only discuss the services individualized to the customer’s needs.  An example of overall communication would be to have a brochure that discusses everything you do.  It is amazing how many businesses offer extra services, but the customer doesn’t know that the company offers it.  An example of individualized discussion of services would be to point out a few of the services on the brochure to the customer that are relevant to his/her needs (ie. Pointing out enzyme treatment to a pet owner, pointing out air duct cleaning to a home with nasty looking vents, pointing out dry cleaning to a home that has dirty & dingy drapery, etc.).  Even if a cleaning technician sold one extra service a week, it could add up to thousands of extra dollars a year in revenue.

Here a just a few additional services besides carpet cleaning that you may currently offer (and if you don’t, see how CleanCraft can help you offer these services):

Lamp Shade Cleaning  (DryMax / See Blog Article about this)
Drapery Cleaning (DryMax / See Blog Article about this)
Vertical Blind Cleaning
Furniture Cleaning
Urine Treatment (Pet n’ Fresh / Water Claw Spot Lifter)
Protectant (Ultre’ Guard Plus II / See Blog Article about this)
Sell Spotter to Customers (Just Magic RTU / See Blog Article about this)
Air Duct Cleaning (SpinVax 1000XT / See many Blog Articles about this)
Dryer Vent Cleaning (SpinVax 1000XT / See many Blog Articles about this)
Tile & Grout Cleaning (Hard Surface Tools)
Automobile Interior Cleaning
Mattress Cleaning (Code: Green & DryMax)