Crime Scene Cleanup Blog

There’s no greater feeling than to be an owner of a successful business.  If you’ve decided to start a cleaning business, understand that your industry statistically has a very high failure rate.  Although service businesses are the least expensive and easiest to start, they come and go as quickly as day turns to night.  Even [...]

Undoubtedly, your crime scene cleanup business isn’t bringing in what it used to.  Although key indicators point to an economic rebound, it will be quite some time before small businesses see any upsurge.  To help keep your business afloat and your family fed, have you considered a supplemental income?  I’m talking an income that could [...]

So you have an awesome website . . . lots of text, awesome flash, online requests forms . . .everything that anyone could possibly be looking for in a website.  Yet your crime scene cleanup business is still not bringing in the revenue you expect. So month after month, you check your website stats, just [...]

This seems like a fairly popular blog and I wanted to take a few minutes to say a few things about Cleanupdirectory.com.
A few weeks ago, our company received a call from the owner of  a large abandoned warehouse.  It was full of trash, feces (both human and animal), old bedding where homeless people were [...]

It would certainly be far fetched to believe that all of the new visitors to CleanupDirectory.com are indeed potential clients.  However, at least some of the over 1,000 new visitors are indeed looking for the types of services you provide.  For it would be as equally far fetched to believe that none of them are [...]

Last week my receptionist received a call from an insurance adjuster. Thinking that a cleanup job would be the topic of conversation, the call was forwarded to our sales staff.  After a brief introduction, the adjuster wasted no time with small talk.  Without hesitation, he asked “what do you charge for cleanup services?”.  Well, Beth [...]

Thanks to the good folks at CleanupBlog.com, Alert Worldwide has been allowed to post information concerning our Crime Scene Cleanup Directory.  Although Alert Worldwide, LLC has several directories and other projects in the works, we have yet to start our own blog.  So again, thanks to the staff of CleanupBlog.com for allowing us the opportunity [...]

Unlike the security, janitorial or housing industries, the crime scene cleanup industry isn’t as well known or as popular.  When I started this blog a few years back, five or six people a month would take time out of their busy day to spend 20 or 30 seconds to review an article or [...]

As a business owner for the past fifteen years, with over 100 employees, I often get calls from friends and family members for advice.  Recently, I received such a call from a friend who owns a crime scene cleanup business in Florida.  His first words were “where’s the business”, to which I responded, “I [...]

I started my first business in 1994.  Having just completed a six year tour in the United States Marine Corps and with only a high school education, I had no clue what I was doing.    Not only was I completely oblivious to running a company, but I just so happened to choose a business with [...]

As many of you are now aware, in July 2009 our company, ALERT Worldwide LLC, launched an e-book titled “Crime & Trauma Scene Cleanup for Business Owners”.  During the past few weeks we have received only positive emails and phone calls regarding our recent publication.  Although pleased that the book has been well received, our [...]

A few days ago, I stumbled across a newsgroup and a thread that discussed the crime scene cleanup industry.  Someone had written that the crime scene cleanup industry was over-saturated, no one could make any money and everyone was going out of business.  It was unclear as to whether or not this was an owner [...]

Many of you want to know how to start a crime scene cleanup company.  Maybe some of you have already launched your new crime scene cleanup business, yet haven’t received your first job and don’t know where to turn for help.  There’s a new book on the market that may be the only one of [...]

When I started my crime scene cleanup business several years ago, I knew it would take some time to see the “fruits of my labor”.  I’ve owned several services businesses over the years.  Although the cleanup company hasn’t grown as quickly as I had expected, it’s still a viable market.  Every year my company posts [...]

Many crime scene cleanup companies offer their services on a nationwide level.  Although some are legitimate, many are not.  It has come to my attention that many “nationwide” companies are outsourcing the cleanup, remediation and restoration work to companies who are unqualified, unprofessional and dishonest.  Many distressed family members and friends of deceased loved ones [...]