
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.
Keep It Clean! - A Pro Cleaning Industry Podcast
"I Like To Tinker and Build Things"
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Dane Gregory, Erik Hiltz
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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 them with the industry.
He started like most of us did as a technician working for a different company and learned to like this business and continued on and has worn a lot of different hats in his business career.
From working as a SEARS carpet cleaner and learning mostly the hard way of how to clean. What detergents would work and which ones did not. And how to give great customer service to his carpet clients and the folks who buy his Zipper Wands.