Finding the Best Janitorial Service
You may have never considered how complicated hiring a good janitorial service can be. However, if you’ve had a bad experience with a janitorial service, you already know that it is very possible to make a bad choice that makes a portion of your life miserable. There is a lot of diversity in janitorial services. One of the most obvious is the smaller hard-working company that really wants your business, or the larger company that promises to take care of you superior.
Frankly, there are good and bad janitorial services in massive and small firms. More massive firms must maintain a big pool of business replacing one they lose with another account. To accomplish this, they often have sales people or account managers. In some cases, you cleaning concerns seem less valuable to a company mostly interested in account acquisition. The smaller firm can deliver a quality of service like the larger firms, but is more vulnerable to economic issues. In the business, there is always new companies starting and other companies closing their doors. Therefore, one of the considerations is the kind of commitment the service gives to your building.
Massive companies often have a sales force or account managers. This adds to the cost because larger companies have overhead to maintain the operation of a firm that might have 50-100 accounts. The challenge of the big firm is to stay in touch with the people on the job. One lost deal is not as dramatic to a big firm as it is to the smaller service because the sales force will replace that business. Large firms must look at the huge picture in gross business which can leave the client feeling disconnected from issues that concern them.
Small companies are hungry for business and often anxious to prove that they are as good as the big companies. Frankly, they might not have the resources of manpower, equipment, or training as the bigger janitorial firms, but you cannot beat the value of someone who will give you their ideal efforts to clean your office or building. While price will always be a factor, the most valuable element of any janitorial service is the quality of job they do after they get the contract.
Here’s the point, most companies are not looking for cut rate janitorial service. They generally want the best cleaning service for the money. The RFP is a formal outline of the work duties, requirements, and requirements. Whereas a quote asks for the service to make a bid based on standard cleaning processes. It still comes down to a consideration of who makes the lowest bid. This invites the wrong people to find a way to under-bid the competition though they know that they cannot provide the quality expected at these discounted rates.
There is a need to raise the more valuable question to the top in any janitorial bid situation. Can or will the selected company do a good and reliable job for you at a reasonable price? Life has enough confusion already. Why hire a company that’ll add to your aggravation and leave you will disappointed expectations? I advocate that you read my report on “How to Hire a Janitorial Service” as a free download at www.GreenJanitor.net. I have prepared a ten page report that includes a sample RFP so that you can make a better choice of janitorial service this time.
The issue of the hour is whether individuals and corporations are “Going Green.” You are going to see a tidal wave of demands for companies in incorporate Green programs in their operation, and it should not surprise you to discover that the janitorial service is a very large factor in the Green status of your company. Some services pretend to be Green, but I show you how to find a bona fide Green Janitorial service at www.greenjanitor.net. Make no mistake. If your company isn’t taking steps to Go Greem, it is going to impact you in a massive way very soon.
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