James Nokes Editor

Email address: jfntci@aol.com The Cleaning Institute 955 Karol Way, #3 San Leandro, CA 94577

Here's how CleanHound.com introduces itself:

CleanHound™ is a comprehensive search engine for cleaning professionals that searches over 900 cleaning-related sites on the web.

CleanHound™ is trained to search only industry-related Web sites, including Manufacturer sites, Association sites, Government Agency sites and Cleaning Industry Publication sites. This loyal search engine doesn't waste time chasing its tail. It relentlessly runs down the specific search results you need and brings them to your desktop.

 Let's take this dog for a run around the park! 

Of course the best way to see what CleanHound can do is to just try it out. I have been thinking about doing an article on cleaning floors covered with tile and grout so I used CleanHound to look up the words "grout and tile" with the quotation marks around them. When you look up a term on CleanHound they give you one of two choices. You can do a Products search or an Article search. Since I wanted to get information about cleaning and maintaining tiles and grout, not buy a product to clean tiles and grout, I searched through their articles.

I got 32 articles in my search which was a much more reasonable number than than the 12,010 items I got making the same search on Google.com - and the first item on google's list was from "the blog archives of Micah and Susan" which was basically a couple's online diary about their efforts to fix up their house; obviously not relevant to my search for cleaning information about tiles and grout.

CleanHound.com's first Non-Sponsored article was from bsmmag.com, which is the Building Services Management website and was entitled: An Every Day Challenge, Making Tile and Grout Maintenance Easier was just the kind of thing I was looking for.

Some of the other article titles I found were: Gaining a Foothold by Tackling Slippery Situations which was about a cleaning business owners adventures in cleaning a restaurnat's greasy kitchen floor. Some of the others were, Get down to the nitty gritty with tile and grout cleaning; and Addressing Urine on Restroom Floors which needs no explanation...

And even just looking at the names of the websites these articles were on, sites like: http://www.sanitarymaintenancemag.com, http://www.bscai.org (building service contractor's association, international) and http://www.cleanfax.com tells you that these are serious articles written for people in the cleaning professions.

 The Selling Power of Green Seal 

What if you could make a credible promise to potential customers that you could:
   Improve Indoor Air Quality
   Provide Healthier Buildings for Your Customers
   Increase Worker Productivity
   Improve Worker Morale
   Reduce Sick Days and Associated Health Care Costs
   Minimize Exposure to Aggressive Chemicals
   Reduce Water and Air Pollution
   Reduce Waste with Concentrated Products
   Reduce Package Waste with Recyclable Packaging
   Clean without Sacrificing Effectiveness
   Clean for Peace of Mind

And back it up with sold information from an authoritative source?

One company has 24 page long, online brochure rich in information you can use to promote your cleaning service if you use the "green" cleaning products they sell. Here are a couple of quotes from their brochure so that you can see how powerful a selling tool you can have through them.

This company is a private firm but they have the power and prestige of Green Seal behind them as a selling tool. I wanted you to see their brochure so that you would see the power that "Green Cleaning" has. I don't make anything if you buy from them so I won't quote you any of their prices.

The brochure is in PDF format which requires anAdobe Reader. If you don't have one already you can get a Reader for free at: Adobe.com

Click Here if you want to view (or download) the brochure for yourself.

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