COMMERCIAL CLEANING IN SOUTH DENVER, CO

Steve is a 57 year old Christian man, born and raised in Illinois. He’s been married to his wife Laura, for 36 years. They have a daughter who is married, and they now have two grandchildren as well.

Steve has been around the cleaning industry for over 40 years. At the age of 14 with his parents help, he got started in his own cleaning business. Learning basic cleaning principles from local suppliers and taking on tasks like floor refinishing and carpet cleaning, he made himself invaluable to meeting the needs of his clients, so they didn’t need several vendors.

After about 6 years in the industry, Steve was starting to get an idea of where he may or may not want to go with his business. He got out of the day-to-day cleaning for a few years and focused on his carpet cleaning and floor refinishing services. Working with companies like Domino’s Pizza, and Einstein’s Bagels, Steve became proficient at maintaining their floors and keeping their storefronts in tip-top shape. Setting up regular maintenance schedules, allowed the store owners to think about their own daily tasks and leave the heavy work to him. Steve was viewed as an asset to their business vs a liability on their monthly budget.

Several years later, Steve’s brother Tim, another young entrepreneur who had started a cleaning business, was seeing some real success in the industry. He approached Steve to see if they could work together on a franchising project. Tim’s knowledge of handling larger accounts and managing teams of workers, along with Steve’s overall knowledge of the industry and the ability to work with franchise owners teaching them floor and carpet services, made it a good fit. Utilizing Steve in sales and operations, allowed Tim and his partners to focus on expansion. The key to a successful business plan, is to surround yourself with the right people. Steve has moved through several areas of the company as they have grown and over the past few years has taken on the task of working with software developers to create proprietary, turnkey software for the franchise owners.

Over the past 22 years, Tim’s business has grown to over 500 clients in 7 states, with earnings over 9 million dollars per year in revenue. They have over 50 franchise owners and they see this as just the beginning.

In the fall of 2016 Steve and Laura moved to Colorado. They invited their daughter and son-in-law to join them with the opportunity to grow a business together. Steve still works at the corporate level on franchisee expansion, software development and training. Steve and son-in-law Anthony have developed quite a nice size cleaning business and plan on expanding even further. Steve’s main focus in Colorado is sales, networking and brand awareness, while Anthony maintains several client locations and serves in operations keeping client inventories maintained and overseeing employee job performance though on-site client inspections.  Steve has been franchisee of the year for 2 of the past 6 years he has been in business.

Steve’s hobbies outside of work include motorcycles, hiking, camping, skiing, grand-parenting and finding good places to eat with his beautiful bride.