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Green Cleaning Franchise Better Life Maids Wins Coveted Super Service Award
Better Life Maids, a green cleaning franchise founded in St. Louis, MO and expanding nation wide though a franchise development program, has been awarded the prestigious 2011 Angie’s List Super Service Award. This honor is bestowed annually on approximately 5 percent of all the businesses rated on the nation’s leading… Read More
Reducing Holiday Induced Stress
If this is the “most wonderful time of the year,” why am I so stressed? Can you relate to that question? It’s true that the December holidays are one of the most anxiety-producing times of the year. It’s easy to understand why – the endless to-do lists, unrealistic expectations of… Read More
Whatever Wednesday: Making Your Holiday Safe(r) For Your Pets
The holidays are stressful; let’s just get that out of the way first. What – with gifts to buy, decorations to put up, family issues to deal with, cookies to bake – it can be exhausting. It’s easy to forget that others in your household might find it stressful, too. Read More
Allergy-Reduction During the Winter Months
Now that winter is here, our homes are shut tight against the cold elements outside. Staying inside and breathing heated air is a sure-fire way to aggravate indoor allergies. But contrary to popular belief, you don’t have to strip your home down to the bare bones to eliminate all allergens,… Read More
Declutter your Home, Expand your Life (Part 2)
Once you’ve identified, sorted and emotionally let go, you have choices as to how to take care of your clutter. You have six options: • Repurpose • Recycle • Rearrange • Sell • Donate • Trash Repurpose. Too many coffee cups? Repurpose your favorites by… Read More
Declutter your Home, Expand your Life (Part 1)
We all have Stuff. All those things we simply can’t part with – family mementos, old photos, trinkets from vacations that remind us of happy times. When you have too much stuff, however, it ceases to be just stuff. It then becomes clutter. Unlike having a little bit of stuff,… Read More
BALANCING BEING A MOM AND LAUNCHING A NATIONAL GREEN HOUSE CLEANING FRANCHISE
I like the term Momtrepreneur. It is an obvious mash up of Mom and Entrepreneur. I definitely like the fact that Mom comes first in the mash up, because for me, being a mom has always comes first. My first child Nadia was only a year and a half… Read More
A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE AIRPORT
I spent the first 10 years of my professional career as a pilot. For many people, it would have been a dream job. And I for one loved to fly, and still think about the flying all the time. It is an amazing job to be a pilot, especially… Read More
GROWING A GREAT GREEN HOUSE CLEANING FRANCHISE: DURING THE GREAT RECESSION
We started Better Life Maids in the summer of 2008. Right before the first run up in the price of oil, and what was to be one of the largest economic crisis’ in US history. Even with a then strong economy, most people thought we were crazy to start… Read More
Get a Head Start to Your Holiday Shopping with a Green House Cleaning Gift Certificate
A third of all holiday shoppers will do their shopping in the 10 days before Christmas. Now, it’s unlikely that we can help you to avoid those crowds all together, but we do have something that can reduce your time in all those crowds: a green house cleaning gift certificate. Read More