'United Professional Cleaning Alliance Interview'

Name of your website?

United Professional Cleaning Alliance

Your name?

Robert Barber

Your Location (city, etc)

San Diego

Please give us a short summary of your website?

We are a cleaning service online advertising resource that allows residential cleaners, commercial cleaners and carpet cleaners to list their company information in our directory. We try to ensure that cleaning companies will be presented to over thousands of people looking for maid services, house cleaning services and carpet cleaning professionals in their area.

What inspired you to launch your own website?

Our mother ran a cleaning business for years. She asked us to build her a website for her cleaning business. After finding very little information on the web for cleaning services, we decided to publish her business techniques and create www.UnitedProfessionalCleaningAlliance.com so that other cleaning professionals could list their company and use her business tools.

When did you launch your first website, and what was it?

We launched our first website in 2001. It was called www.eBabyPages.com. The inspiration was the birth of our son. We did not live near our families so we developed a website that publishes password protected pages for parents to share pictures of their children. The service is free and is still on line after almost eight years.

How did you decide on a name for your website?

We wanted it to be more than just an association or group. We wanted it to be an Alliance between professional cleaners that could help each other to grow their business.

What makes it different from other, similar offerings?

We offer business tools and business forms that you can use in any business, not just the cleaning business. Our tools are developed by and for cleaning professionals so that they can have the most advantage in their daily tasks. Our proven systems are efficient and effective, and our helpful Business Forms and vast library of Business Resources help manage and operate a house cleaning service, commercial cleaning business, carpet cleaning service or professional organizing business.

What is your eventual goal? (To sell it, keep it for income, secure a book or other mainstream media deal?)

Our goal is to continue to grow the directory and become the leading industry website and online cleaning directory.

How does your investment of time and money balance against your success?

This is a hobby / 2nd job for us. We would love to devote more time, but with children and full time jobs, the business aspect often suffers because of time and money.

If you had an unlimited development budget for development, how would you change your site?

I would hire someone to implement the ideas that I have for the site and for other websites that we manage. I don't always have time to keep up with the latest web developments and would like a full time web developer on staff.

If your site got really big, really quickly, would you be able to keep up with the demand?

Yes, our sites are all completely automated. We don't sell a product, only a service so the bigger the better for us.

What unexpected costs and headaches have you had to deal with?

No unexpected costs other than additional web development after the original website was created.

What has been your biggest challenge?

The biggest challenge has been finding time to run the website while working a full time job and spending time with the family.

What method has been most successful for promoting your website?

I read as much as possible on Search Engine Optimization and try to incorporate those tools into the website. We don't use and Pay Per Click advertising or any other paid advertising. Our promotion is all free.

How has running your website differed from your expectations?

We expected to add more clients each month to cover some of the initial cost of development. The site has showed steady growth and now has over 400 registered users in five years.

How long have you run the site already, and how long will you continue to keep it up if you don't enjoy big gains in traffic, income or popularity?

The site has been up since 2003 and we plan to keep it up for as long as possible.

What is your website address?

United Professional Cleaning Alliance

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