273: Launching 2 Maids & A Mop with Ron Holt
The How of Business - How to start, run, grow and exit a small business.
Henry Lopez, Levante Business Group
4.7 • 522 Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2019
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Home Cleaning Franchise Small Business with Ron Holt. Ron shares how he launched and grew "2 Maids & A Mop". He also shares his entrepreneur journey, from successful corporate career to becoming his own boss. He sacrificed for almost seven years to save the money to start his first small business. He overcame early challenges and near failure and persevered to grow his business into a leading home cleaning franchise business.
Henry Lopez is a serial entrepreneur, small business coach, and the host of this episode of The How of Business show – dedicated to helping you start, run and grow your small business. (TheHowOfBusiness.com)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the how of business with your host, Henry Lopez, the podcast that helps you start, run and grow your small business. |
| 0:13.4 | And now, here is your host. |
| 0:16.2 | Welcome to this episode of the how of business. |
| 0:18.9 | I have Ron Holt with me today. |
| 0:21.5 | This is Henry Lopez. |
| 0:23.4 | Ron, welcome to the show. |
| 0:25.0 | Thanks, Henry. |
| 0:25.8 | I'm excited to be here and can't wait to share my story with everyone. |
| 0:29.1 | Yeah, looking forward to this. |
| 0:30.3 | It really piqued my interest as I was doing the research. |
| 0:34.0 | It's a great business you have and a great franchise opportunity. We're going to |
| 0:39.2 | chat with Ron about his entrepreneurial journey, which is very interesting from a corporate job, |
| 0:45.5 | corporate world, to starting his first business and now a very successful franchise business. |
| 0:51.2 | So we're going to chat about that journey. And then we're going to dive into specifically his business is in the cleaning business. He has a cleaning business. So we're going to chat about that journey. And then we're going to dive into specifically |
| 0:54.2 | his business is in the cleaning business. He has a cleaning business that he franchises to others. |
| 1:00.4 | And so I want to explore what that's all about. How do you make a cleaning business successful? |
| 1:06.2 | What are the ins and outs? He's got some unique approaches, for example, to how he compensates his employees. |
| 1:12.4 | So we'll chat about that. So let me give you a little bit more about Ron. Ron Holt is the CEO and |
| 1:18.8 | founder of Two Maids and a Mop. Two Mades and a Mop is a multi-award winning company that is over |
| 1:25.2 | 15 years into making and currently serves over 500 |
| 1:28.8 | customers each day across the country. 16 years ago, though, Ron started a small cleaning |
| 1:35.8 | service inside a small 250 square foot office space, and it took him two years to make a profit |
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