Why did you start your cleaning company?
We bet you started your cleaning company because you wanted things in your life to be different, right?
More time with your family, less time spent working, more money in the bank?
But now you’re working crazy hours, with less free time and now making less money than you know you deserve.
We want to help you build a high profit, low stress cleaning company that can run without you.
The kind you dreamed of when you started – the kind we’ve been able to build ourselves.
But who are we? And what do we know about the cleaning industry?
Keep scrolling to find out!
I'm Jamie
founder AND DIRECTOR of the Clean Up Academy
And I’m also the head coach for the Clean Up Academy.
I’ve been in the cleaning industry for 17 years starting as a cleaner in a nursing home and working my way up to being the Managing Director of Joe’s Bristol based cleaning company called Gleem and scaling and systemising the business before leaving to start a coaching business.
I’d seen how many people struggled with the exact same issues I did when I joined Gleem.
In fact, the only thing I’ve got more experience in than cleaning is coaching. I’m
an accredited coach that’s worked as a music tutor, sports coach and now business coach totalling 19 years – coaching is my passion.
It’s this combined cleaning and coaching experience that I’ve used with hundreds of cleaning companies to get genuinely life changing results, get them away from feeling directionless and stressed and instead have the kind of cleaning company that they dreamed about when they started.
I'm Joe
serial entrepreneur and Director of the Clean Up Academy
I’m the owner of a cleaning company called Gleem that’s been running for over 10 years operating both commercially and residentially. Jamie joined Gleem early into its existence and together we scaled Gleem to be the fastest growing and highest rated cleaning company in Bristol (a highly competitive market).
We scaled and fully systemised the business which enabled Jamie to pursue coaching and I moved to Sri Lanka and had an office team in Bristol manage the business for me. It continued to scale until 2022 when I sold Gleem Commercial for a large sum.
I still run Gleem Home to this day (managed by a single person and doing multi-five figure profit every month) so I’ve seen every stage – starting, scaling, systemising and selling.
I LOVE automation, software and systems. That’s how I’m able to work 1 hour a week in Gleem Home while making record profit and how I was able to exit Gleem Commercial for what it was truly worth.
It’s that experience that I’m bringing to the members of the Clean Up Academy.
Why Work With Us?
We’ve been there and we’ve worked with literally hundreds of cleaning company owners just like you that have felt that exact same way.
Besides, no-one teaches you how to actually run a cleaning company when you start, you’re just left to figure it out on your own.
Think of the amount of training that goes into every other job out there and the amount of time it takes, yet you’re just thrust into the business world (often with limited experience) and expected to figure it all out as you go.
Imagine becoming a doctor by learning on the job or through trial and error – crazy, right? Somehow we’re expected to magically know the best software to
use, how to sell, how to handle customers, how to launch a service; the list goes on and on.
And it can be pretty lonely running your cleaning business all my yourself, dealing with the stress and the frustration.
The thing is, running a business is a big risk. You’re completely betting on yourself.
If this doesn’t work out then it’s back to square one, it’s back to a 9-5 job earning less than you deserve and it’s turmoil for your family.
But you also know that you can’t carry on with the things the way they are. Nothing changes if nothing changes right?
Instead of going it alone, spending years learning through trial and error and wasting money along then way, why not stand on the shoulders of what we’ve created with a combined almost 30 years in the cleaning industry.
We’ve been there and we’ve worked with literally hundreds of cleaning company owners just like you that have felt that exact same way.
Besides, no-one teaches you how to actually run a cleaning company when you start, you’re just left to figure it out on your own.
Think of the amount of training that goes into every other job out there and the amount of time it takes, yet you’re just thrust into the business world (often with limited experience) and expected to figure it all out as you go.
Imagine becoming a doctor by learning on the job or through trial and error – crazy, right? Somehow we’re expected to magically know the best software to
use, how to sell, how to handle customers, how to launch a service; the list goes on and on.
And it can be pretty lonely running your cleaning business all my yourself, dealing with the stress and the frustration.
The thing is, running a business is a big risk. You’re completely betting on yourself.
If this doesn’t work out then it’s back to square one, it’s back to a 9-5 job earning less than you deserve and it’s turmoil for your family.
But you also know that you can’t carry on with the things the way they are. Nothing changes if nothing changes right?
Instead of going it alone, spending years learning through trial and error and wasting money along then way, why not stand on the shoulders of what we’ve created with a combined almost 30 years in the cleaning industry.
