Keep It Clean! - A Pro Cleaning Industry Podcast
The path for the professional cleaning & restoration business owner isn’t easy or defined. Frustration is common and the next steps aren’t always clear. Host Dane Gregory has over 35 years of experience in every level of the residential and commercial cleaning industries. A past IICRC President, world-class instructor, and business mentor, Dane shares insights on business management, mindset coaching, and technical advice for cleaning business owners, managers, and technicians. Whether the speciality is carpet, hard surface, or commercial, this podcast is for every member of the cleaning and restoration industry.
Episodes
51 episodes
"I Like To Tinker and Build Things"
Erik Hiltz is a long time carpet cleaner and founder of Zipper Wands. He tells his start up story from the very beginning of how he got started and what motivated him to jump into manufacturing of his own brand of commercial wands and stare the...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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51:16
"You Should Try Carpet Cleaning!"
Keep It Clean! has Rob Hanks this week for a very entertaining story of an older brother convincing his two younger brothers to help him in his carpet cleaning business. They had little training and little support, but big dreams and a lot of d...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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1:03:27
" I Had A Picture In My Head"
BK Semandic came to the US from Serbia and decided to make a life here. He has an appreciation for the land of opportunity. And what an opportunity it has been! BK applies himself through the power of visualization and creating a future that is...
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Episode 4
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53:59
"I Don't Remember Carpet Cleaning At Career Day"
An Interview with Bill Yeadon, all around nice guy, lover of business books and one of the pioneers of the professional cleaning industry. Bill has been a carpet cleaner for many, many years and a pure lover of marketing this industry.B...
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Episode 3
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1:05:34
"I Started When I Was Just A Kid"
Craig Jasper has spent a lifetime in the professional cleaning and restoration industry. Starting as a very young adult, he learned literally from the ground up to clean floors, carpets and fabrics. As most of us do, he then journeyed into the ...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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1:01:21
"There's A Difference Between Making Money And Making A Profit"
If you are in the professional cleaning industry and you have not heard of Courtney Lee, you have been living under a rock. This guy is everywhere on FaceBook and many different cleaning related pages. Always a positive person and always willin...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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54:28
"You Are Always Learning Something New"
Jessika James has been around our professional cleaning and restoration world for 37 years, seeing many new changes and challenges for the industry. She is a pioneer of contents processing from the middle 80's and a pioneer of contents processi...
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Season 2
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Episode 16
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53:04
"He Raised Me To Be Service Oriented"
There are few people we meet in life that will stand out forever in our hearts and minds. Kenway Mead was one of those people in my life. Always positive, always kind and an absolute class act. He was the face of...
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Episode 15
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57:02
"I Wanted To Build A Bridge Between The Cleaning Community And The Scientific Community"
Dr. Dan Bernazzani discusses his start in the carpet cleaning/building services industry beginning in the late 1970's. Starting small during his college years, his operation grew to two locations and worked for some of the most well established...
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Episode 14
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50:26
"It Was A Paradigm Shift"
Reg Rogers shares with Keep It Clean! his transition from rock and roll drummer to carpet cleaner. No, we are not kidding. It really happened just the way Reg tells it! The music industry is just that, an industry. Just like any other ind...
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Episode 13
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54:53
"No Two Jobs Are Ever Alike"
Listen to this latest interview with special guest Barry Costa. Barry talks about his start in the cleaning and restoration world while working with his Dad in the 1960’s and 70’s as a helper and starting his own company while working as a scho...
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Episode 12
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1:01:20
"It's The Little Things That Can GET You"
A true gentleman that reaches back in our industry over 50 years. One of the first education providers in the industry, and still going strong today, Ron Toney. Ron started back in 1969 as a high school custodian and over 5 d...
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Episode 11
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58:39
"You're Not Just A Carpet Cleaner, You Are A Plumber, Electrician, Salesman and Chemist"
Shawn Bisaillon has had quite a journey in the professional cleaning and restoration industry! Starting at age 18, for some 30 years has had several different views of industry roles from cleaning technician to manufacturer and many things in b...
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Episode 10
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1:02:48
"Let's Give DuPont A Chance"
In the fall season of 1986, the professional carpet cleaning industry was challenged with a new stain resistant carpet product introduced to the public. This product was unlike anything else we had ever worked on. StainMaster nylon was pr...
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Episode 9
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48:17
"I Changed How I was Trying To Reach Customers"
Mike Dunmyer, owner of Advanced Degree Carpet Cleaning, earned an MBA from Duke University, has worked as an executive in corporate America, and as a partner in a national non-profit organization that is helping to save our oceans. Then, he ...
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Episode 8
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58:11
"The Dirt In This World Is The Same Dirt Since Adam and Eve, Nothing's Changed"
Robert Falzone of Robert Falzone Consulting and Sales is our guest on this rip roaring edition of Keep It Clean. Robert is outspoken to say the least and got his start with cleaning and restoration refurbishing historical buildings in Brooklyn ...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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1:06:29
I Started Cleaning As A Teenager
Doyle Bloss of HydraMaster speaks about his early years in the cleaning business and his entry into the supply side of the business. He talks about the influence his father, Ralph Bloss had on him and our entire industry, about helping people, ...
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Episode 6
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1:03:25
"I Spent All Our Wedding Cash On A Carpet Cleaning Machine"
Howard Partridge spent all of their wedding cash on a carpet cleaning machine and he is still married!! He struggled like we all did in the beginning of his career and turned it around by understanding the power of referral marketing. ...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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51:29
There Has Never Been A Better Time For A Well Versed Owner To Be In The Carpet Cleaning Business
Mike Pailliotet has been cleaning carpets for awhile and has seen every side of the industry. From high pressure sales processes in his early years, to the more consultative approach today, Mike still cleans carpet every day and has an ar...
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Episode 4
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55:52
"I Took Advantage Of Every Training Opportunity I Could"
Claude Blackburn, Founder of Dri-Eaz Products, talks about his early days with carpet cleaning and operating his business in Northwest Washington state. It is an interesting story of overcoming, dedication, optimism, and downright stubbornness ...
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Episode 3
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1:06:52
"We Are The Authority Figure In A Servant's Manner"...Joe Dobbins
Joe Dobbins has been a carpet cleaner, restoration contractor, wholesale product and equipment supplier, licensed building contractor, property insurance adjuster and an IICRC trainer and volunteer. That is enough to last most profession...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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55:32
"We Thank Our Customers For Allowing Us To Be Of Service"
Mark Saiger tells an amazing story of a carpet cleaning startup in a very rural area of the "North Country" in Northern Minnesota. His family was in the carpet cleaning business and Mark is 3rd generation cleaning, teaching the 4th and 5th gene...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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57:39
"Every Customer Gets Treated Like Royalty"
Paul Pearce has been cleaning since the 1970's in the United Kingdom with great success. He has the proper attitude to understand customer service from a unique viewpoint. He has had actual royalty as his customer, but has not been phased as he...
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Season 1
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Episode 30
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55:07
"Success: Being Happy With Who You Are and What You Are Doing!"
We coaxed Jeff Bishop out of retirement to give us some insight from his long service and unique perspective of the professional cleaning and restoration industry. From the 1950's to 2018, Jeff was a force in the carpet cleaning industry. He co...
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Season 1
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Episode 29
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57:04
"I Learned Almost Everything In Carpet Cleaning Through Trial and Error"
Keep It Clean! has Rob Hanks this week for a very entertaining story of an older brother convincing his two younger brothers to help him in his carpet cleaning business. They had little training and little support, but big dreams and a lot of d...
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Season 1
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Episode 28
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1:03:27