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NEWS ORGANIZATION TIPS

Quality Cleaning Services Start with Dedicated Employees

Quality cleaning services is, without a doubt, the fruit of having dedicated employees.

Quality cleaning services is an essential factor for a company to stay in business. And achieve it, you must first take care of your own workforce. As a company that looks after their employees, claims the reward of their employees’ loyalty, hard work, and dedication.

Clean and Simple Cleaning™ works hard to support and recognize our employees, so they continually are encouraged to improve. With 2012 coming to a close a month ago, we named our Employee of the Year. This cleaning technician has been with us for many years. Moreover, this employee has a unique story about becoming part of our crew. It was nearly two years ago when this quiet, shy woman responded to our ad for house cleaning.

I rarely see the people that come into the office to apply because my office is not in the front, and often I am working with my door closed.

This particular day I remember stepping out for something to drink. She was sitting in our waiting area filling out paperwork. I can remember our operations manager thanking her for taking the time to apply but she would not be hired because she did not have a driver’s license. Well, that did not stop Yusely. She went and studied and obtained her license. So then, a few months later, she returned to see if she could work for Clean and Simple Cleaning™. Yusely impressed us with her motivation to obtain the necessary requirements and decided to proceed with our hiring process.

Just a few short weeks after starting work with our company, she had only had her license a short while and she was in an accident . As a new driver, we expected her to be rattled, which she was. However, she somehow determined to overcome her driving fears came right back to work. This kind of determination continues to demonstrate outstanding employment and helps us provide quality cleaning services.

Yusely is the one always willing to go the extra mile, make sure she satisfied her customer and also sets a great example for her co workers.

This past year a course was suggested through our national association, ARCSI, for home cleaning technician certification. This was a new exam, which offered and administered by a third party. Designed to encourage cleaning companies, The Clean Trust test was to make sure their technicians obtained a certain level of competency in the home cleaning industry. They would learn and get tested on their knowledge of cleaning, restoration, inspection techniques and customer satisfaction. Yusely impressed me again when she came to me wanting to take the course. I had taken the course just a few months before with a group of businesses across the nation in Dallas, TX. It was not an easy test. We thought she might find it difficult.  As it is because English was not her primary language. She passed! Again, determined and showing leadership while providing outstanding quality cleaning services.

It is with great honor to have such a quality individual working for our company. She was hands down the best example of employee of the year for 2012.

Thank you to all of our clients who take the time to fill out online surveys and say wonderful things about the home cleaning technicians that care for your homes. Our industry is changing and trying to stay on the forefront of professionalism offering quality cleaning services and educated technicians that care for your family home.

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NEWS

Mukilteo Cleaning Service Sponsors Kamiak Football Team

Kamiak High School’s football team is the talk of the town, in Mukilteo during the fall months. Everyone in Mukilteo gathers every Friday night to cheer on the Fightin’ Knights as they compete against other local schools.

For Stacie McMillan, owner, and proprietor of Clean and Simple Cleaning™, Friday nights contribute something else.  She enjoys going to all the games and cheering on the team. Although, she covers her eyes whenever her son, Kyle McMillan, takes the field. This year, Stacie decided to sponsor the Kamiak Squad as her son approaches his senior year.

Being members of the Mukilteo community for many years, Stacie and her family are excited to support something so close to home.Additionally, it brings some attention to her business which provides Mukilteo house cleaning service. Mukilteo is home for the McMillan family, they attend a local church, chamber meetings, and her kids have attended Mukilteo Schools their whole lives.

While her business is located just up the highway in Lynnwood, her heart resides in Mukilteo where she continues to offer quality Mukilteo house cleaning service as abundantly as in Lynnwood.

Deciding to sponsor the Kamiak Football Team was an easy decision for Stacie. It is not only because her son plays for the team. Stacie has also built lasting relationships with many of the players and their parents on the team. The Fightin’ Knights had 19 seniors this season. Moreover, Stacie is appreciative of all the support and guidance they have provided her son, Kyle. The team guided Kyle all throughout his first three years on the football team. An easy thank-you for her was to sponsor the team. She accomplishes it with her local Mukilteo house cleaning service, Clean and Simple Cleaning™. Stacie and her family are proud to be active members of the Mukilteo community. Moreover, they are looking forward and excited about next football season, Go Fightin’ Knights!

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BREAST CANCER AWARENESS NEWS

Breast Cancer Patients Get Free House Cleaning

Take a look at the clock, and think about how quickly two minutes comes and goes. 

In that two minutes, another diagnosis of a man or woman having breast cancer, and their lives change forever. October is approaching fast. Moreover, although everyone is feeling excited for falling leaves and spooky decorations, there is another thing to remember. October is breast cancer awareness month! This moment is our time to remember and support all the individuals who are suffering from the debilitating disease of breast cancer.

Although it was challenging to see the positive when a family member, friend, or loved one goes through such a hard battle, a national organization is working hard to put smiles on the faces of women who have breast cancer. This organization is Cleaning For a Reason. They spend their days organizing with cleaning companies all around the United States to give free cleaning services to women that do not have the time or energy to clean their homes while battling this disease.

Clean and Simple Cleaning™ was honored to be one of the featured in Cleaning For a Reason’s monthly newsletter for their September issue for our employee recognition program. We have been a proud affiliate and company partner of Cleaning For a Reason since they began.

Their program provides free house cleaning services to afflicted breast cancer patients.

Now, there are over 1000 cleaning companies who partner with them to give free house cleaning for breast cancer patients. In honor of breast cancer awareness month, we would like to highlight their incredible efforts. Additionally, also remind everyone to take a moment or two this month to support women and men who are fighting this awful battle.

If you would like more information on Cleaning For a Reason, please visit their website at www.cleaningforareason.org.  Always remember to pay attention to your body, in between mammograms check for anything unusual at home.  Here’s a great article from breastcancer.org titled  “The Five Steps of a Breast Self-Exam.”