The Cold Reality: Having a Great Service Isn’t Enough
You’ve got the van, the insurance, the cleaning supplies, and the passion. You’ve done everything right, except the phone isn’t ringing.
Welcome to the hardest part of starting any cleaning business: Customer Acquisition.
In the beginning, your time is your most valuable asset. You can’t afford to waste it on complicated, expensive marketing tools or manual follow-up. You need a platform that acts as your entire sales team, working 24/7 to fill your lead pipeline and convert prospects into paying customers.
Your success isn’t about scrubbing harder; it’s about marketing smarter. Here is the essential, built-in marketing toolkit your new cleaning company needs to get those first five crucial customers and finally get off the ground.
Tool 1: The 24/7 Sales Assistant (The Chatbot)
Brand new companies can’t afford a full-time receptionist. But how do you capture leads that come in at 9 PM or 6 AM?
Your website should be a working asset, not a brochure. Our embeddable Chatbot Widget turns casual visitors into booked jobs, even when you’re busy cleaning:
- Instant Booking: The Chatbot guides visitors through a natural conversation to capture all necessary details (service, address, time) and automatically creates a scheduled job in your admin dashboard.
- The Gemini AI Advantage: Activate the Gemini AI personality to handle complex, unstructured requests (e.g., “I need a deep clean next Friday morning for my three-bed house”). It can have truly human-like conversations and is capable of multi-step dialogue.
- Intelligent Upselling: When the Gemini AI is active, it will proactively offer relevant upsells (e.g., “Would you like to add an oven clean for an extra £50?”) and calculate the new total price if accepted, boosting your average job value from the start.
- Pre-Payment Confirmation: If you enable “Upfront Payments” in your settings, the Chatbot will guide the customer to a secure payment page to confirm their booking, ensuring you secure the money upfront.
- Preventing Conflict: The AI is connected to your live schedule and performs instant conflict checks against your calendar, preventing double-bookings and ensuring you only offer available time slots.
The Launch Strategy: Get this simple HTML script onto your website’s home page. It instantly replaces your “Contact Us” form with a 24/7 conversion tool.
Tool 2: The Instant Lead Generator (The Scratch Card)
Want to stand out from the dozen other flyers in your target neighborhood? You need to offer immediate value and excitement to capture contact information.
The Scratch Card Marketing Feature is a digital instant-win tool you can embed anywhere (emails, social media, landing pages) to generate high-quality leads and drive immediate engagement.
- Capture Leads Instantly: To claim their locked-in prize, prospects must submit their name, email, and phone number. If they are a new visitor, they are instantly added as a New Lead in your CRM.
- Control the Odds: You have full control over the Game Builder. Define your prizes (e.g., “10% Off,” “Free Service Add-On”) and set the exact Win Chance (%) for each prize. The total probability always equals 100%.
- Existing Customer Check: If an existing customer plays and wins, the system automatically checks their details and creates a high-priority Quote Request in your dashboard, flagging it for quick prize redemption.
- Track Your Success: A dedicated dashboard tracks every submission, showing you the player’s contact details, the prize won, and whether they were an Existing Customer or a valuable New Lead.
The Launch Strategy: Run a simple Facebook Ad campaign promoting your “Instant Win 15% Off Your First Clean” scratch card. This builds your lead list faster than any standard form.
Tool 3: The Automated Follow-Up System (Marketing Funnels)
Getting a lead is just the first step. The majority of new business is won in the follow-up. But as a new owner, who has time to manually send five emails to every quote request?
Our Automation Funnel is your automated sequence builder. It allows you to nurture leads over time by sending the right message at the right time, completely hands-free.
- Simple Triggers: Set a funnel to begin automatically when a New Lead is Created or when a Quote is Sent. You can also trigger it after a customer’s Last Job is Completed to encourage re-booking.
- Multi-Channel Nurturing: Use the drag-and-drop editor to build your sequence using Wait steps (e.g., “wait 3 days”), Send Email, Send SMS, and even Send Push Notification actions.
- Smart Segmentation: Add a “Condition” step to create branches—for example, if the lead Opened your email, send them Offer A; if they Did Not Open, send a reminder SMS.
- Performance Tracking: For each step (like an email or SMS), you can see key metrics such as the number of messages sent, open rates, and click rates. This helps you understand what’s working.
The Launch Strategy: Build a simple 3-step funnel: 1) Instant Welcome Email, 2) 2-Day Wait, 3) Reminder SMS with a direct booking link. This guarantees every lead gets consistent follow-up.
Tool 4: The Repeat Business Generator (Customer Portal)
Once you land those first few customers, you must make re-booking incredibly easy. Low-effort repeat business is how you survive your first year.
Every customer gets access to a secure Customer Portal / App that gives them total transparency and control:
- Easy Payment: Customers can view all their invoices, past and present, and pay any outstanding balance instantly and securely online.
- Effortless Re-booking: They can view their Job History and submit a Request a Quote or Emergency Service form directly from the app.
- Digital Approval: Customers can review and digitally accept the quote or e-sign the contract directly in the portal.
- Instant Communication: The built-in Team Chat allows them to have a direct, real-time conversation with your admin team, resolving questions and speeding up the booking process.
- Loyalty & Rewards: The integrated rewards system shows a dedicated “My Rewards” card, allowing customers to earn points for every job and initiate a redemption request, creating a strong incentive to re-book.
The Next Step: Start Selling, Not Just Cleaning
If you are struggling to get your first customers, you don’t have a service problem, you have a marketing system problem.
Stop piecing together five separate tools and get everything you need to launch and grow in one place.
The best part? You can try all four of these powerful features risk-free.
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