Tucson Cleaning Service

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I started blogging back in 02/2007

Then Blogger, the software that I was using died on me… It no longer would allow me to upload onto my website. So I moved onto Wordpress. Then in July my computer crashed and I thought these files were lost for ever until today. So I will be posting some of them as they appeared back then.

Welcome to the Tucson cleaning service Blog

The intent of this blog is to encompass all areas of the cleaning services industry. This blog is seeking your input on cleaning tips, services and more. I would like to hear from home and office owners as well as service providers.

Let us discuss what works and what does not work. Since this is my first attempt at a blog, I would appreciate any comments on building a better Blog.

As you can see this blog is attached to my website http://www.yourfreshstart.us/ I am in the process of building a referral links page on it. So if you provide janitorial or house cleaning service here in Tucson or sell cleaning products then please drop me a line at ugspoc@yahoo.com

I am also interested in hearing about house and business organizers as I also provide Tucson based garage cleaning and organizing.

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Death and dying not the most pleasant of topics I know. Much like taxes death is part of our lives whether we like it or not. Today, we got the call that we knew was coming. The short voice mail message, went something like this “she’s gone.”

It was my life partners half sister who had gone. She had Lupus and was slowly losing the battle for years. Some in the family thought she had gotten what she deserved. That’s what happens when you go through life making it miserable for your family. I suppose that I could be bitter for what she had done to me. The truth is, that I held her in contempt, as well. I will not elaborate, but to say that is was worth hate, if your are a hating kind of person. For me, it was more like enormous disdain.

Then this spring, as fate would have it, I encountered this woman while visiting her family. One look at this withered soul melted my disdain into pity. My mind equated that she was living “what comes around goes around.” By the next morning I found myself embracing this woman and whispering “I forgive you.” What a liberating experience. I am not one for harboring bitterness, but this woman earned it. I was so relieved, , and today, I am rightfully sad, and not happy. My thoughts and prayers go out to her mother, her daughter, and grandchildren.

House Cleaning – Friendships, and Death and Dying!

Knowing that this day would come doesn’t make it any easier. It was only a matter of time before I would be writing about dying, death, and friendships from a house cleaner’s perspective.

You see I was very selective when choosing my cleaning clients. The idea was to have regular clients that my service would touch in a special way. All of my clients and I have developed relationships that go beyond business. Yes, I have been blessed to be able to build friendships.

Today, I received a call that one of those clients is returning to most likely bury her mother who is in hospice care. We talked about this yesterday when I was at her home for cleaning. She had just been to Florida to spend what will be her last Christmas with her mother. She related that her mother had taken a turn for the worse and was near the end.

If you have any kind of heart this might be a touching moment, for me it was more than that. My client, Robin, had become a close and trusted friend and mentor. Robin is a semi-retired marketing professional. She has pulmonary problems and cleaning can cause her condition to worsen. So my allergy reduction methods are vital for her health.

I started cleaning her home in January of 2007. Then in February I began to offer search engine optimization services. She has been a wonderful sounding board for me as I struggled with growing my own business. We travel in a lot of the same business circles. We also are members of the same business associations. Thus we have a lot of contact outside of her home.

Life could not have provided a better person to have come into my life at this time. She provides small business consulting as a business. Yet, she gave me thousands of dollars of free advice and never asked for a penny or any for free service.

I am seldom at a loss for words… But today, I find them hard to express as my heart is full of sorrow… I fill my friends sorrow and the tears are flowing copiously.

Words seem so shallow when you are attempting to honor someone for the huge impact that they have had on your life. So for now my friend… I can only say “Thank You.” You are in our prayers.

Yet, it seems so far of the mark and so inadequate. Thank you for letting me into your life. I am indeed, a blessed man… with a heavy heart!

This business and blog hails from Tucson, Arizona. The metro area now includes over a million residents. I have been here more or less for over three decades, yes, that’s 30 years… And to think at one time we never trusted anyone over 30!

Back then most of the surrounding land was owned, by Howard Hughes, Yes that Howard, and he liked to buy, own, and hold onto land. Much of that land is in what is known as “The Foothills” of our Catalina Mountains. These Foothills were not well populated then, as Howard was not much into developing land. It was a great place to party! You could see the city lights glowing in the distance at night and no one much cared if you partied.

Well, at lot has changed since then. When Howard died his estate sold off if land holdings in these Foothills. The developers were soon to follow. We soon found that wealthy people liked the views as well. By now, married and with a baby, partying all night disappeared from our lifestyles. With the lots going for a Million or more… We didn’t have any friends that lived here. House cleaners only clean these homes we don’t live in them.

So we never made our way in, around, or above Skyline drive (the last main road of sorts) before the roads end at the mountains base anymore. Then I received a referral for a home above Skyline drive. After the consultation I stayed in the area scouting around my old stomping grounds. People still party here, but usually behind gated walls. The openness is gone, however, my memories were not. The memories were so powerful and so vivid that I had to pull over to reflect upon my past.

I never expected my cleaning business to take me back down memory lane!

A silly story perhaps… What’s your story!

That’s right! You can get your business onto the first page of Google. You might be wondering why a green cleaning tips blog would be writing about Getting high Google search rankings. Well, it’s very simple 45% of my website and blog traffic comes from search engines. That traffic is generated from being on the first page of search engine results . It is an established fact that 85% of web searchers never go beyond the first page of results. If your business is not on the first page you will not get much, if any, traffic through them… So from time to time I write about search.

This process is known as local SEO or geo-targeting SEO

To verify our high search rankings you can click on these links below and look for the URL’s www.yourfreshstart.us and www.yourfreshstart.us/wp

Search done 01/04/2008

Tucson house cleaning service

Ranked #2 and #3

Tucson business cleaning service

Ranked #1 and #2

Tucson garage cleaning service

Ranked #1 and #2

This could be your business… We would simply apply your location to your website in a way that the search engine like. If you are truly interested in growing your business you may email my other business at tseos@tucsonseosolutions.com

or visit our other website at

www.tucsonseosolutions.com

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