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Two Maids & A Mop Founder Interviewed on Franchise Academy Podcast

Tom Scarda of The Franchise Academy sat down recently with our brand’s CEO and founder to discuss the brand’s journey from a small business into a nationally recognized consumer service franchise brand. It’s an entertaining story of true entrepreneurial drive and success.

The Two Maids & A Mop story is an American success tale comprised of multiple challenges that truly tested our founder’s resolve to keep fighting. It took Ron two years to make a profit and nearly three years to even earn a paycheck. Eventually, the Two Maids & A Mop story started to take a more profitable direction after the implementation of our now-famous Pay for Performance compensation plan. Ron remembers the first time he used this phrase to a potential customer.

“I can still recall that first call with a customer when I discussed our compensation plan. You could feel the energy level through the phone when the potential customer heard me discuss how customer feedback determines employee wages. It was at that moment where I could see the rest of my life unfolding in a much different light. Business skyrocketed immediately after the launch of the unique compensation plan and hasn’t really stopped since that fateful day”

Ron Holt CEO & founder

The Two Maids & A Mop business model has always been built on the gritty foundation of our brand’s twelve corporate locations prior to franchising the brand. Our early days of testing and experimentation continue to serve as the backbone to all of our franchisees located across the country today. Hear about all of those crazy, early days in this interview with franchising legend, Tom Scarda of the Franchise Academy Podcast.

CEO of Two Maids & A Mop Discusses The Story Behind The Brand

Ron Holt - Two Maids & A MopRon Holt, CEO & Founder of Two Maids & A Mop, went from managing chemists and engineers to cleaning dirty toilets … literally. Ron’s company has been ranked by Inc. Magazine as one of the fastest growing cleaning companies in the country for the past four consecutive years, currently boasting 31 fast-growing franchised units. His number one pivotal strategy for success is having grit … and not just the grit you clean up.

He lives and dies by this philosophy: “When you hit those moments when failure seems imminent, you’ve gotta have grit to fight through it. Money is less important than grit. From the highest level executive in the ivory tower to the lowest level employee, to succeed in business, you’ve gotta have some grit.” He was attracted to this “unsexy” industry and his reasons and strategy are fascinating.

If you want to learn more of the Two Maids story, if you want to learn how to motivate a blue collar staff, if you want to learn how to use grit to build a business into a nationwide brand, then make sure to check out this amazing interview.

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Two Maids & A Mop Interviewed by Grow My Cleaning Company Podcast

David Luke - COO of Two Maids & A Mop

David Luke Talks Culture With Grow My Cleaning Company Podcast

David Luke, COO of Two Maids & A Mop, recently sat down with the good folks at Grow My Cleaning Company to discuss the current state of the residential cleaning industry. In the interview, David goes deep into the weeds of our business model and talks about the most important word in our dictionary: CULTURE.

Simply put, a business without a purpose creates long term failure. This is true for every business but it goes even deeper for our business since so much of the work is conducted outside the office. We believe that culture is more important than marketing, more important than sales, even more important than leadership. Why? Because that one word – culture – embodies everything connected to your business. Like we said, culture is the most important word in our dictionary. We believe that culture will soon be your most important word too after listening to this podcast.

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