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Imagine getting your house cleaned for $19.
That’s the pitch Homeaglow offers in its TV ad.
What the ad doesn’t tell you is the $19 price – which sounds too good to be true – is only for the FIRST cleaning. To get your house cleaned regularly, there is an array of other prices offered on its Web site. And, there are a limited number of $19 cleanings in certain areas, and some areas may have none available.
The lesson here is that if something sounds too good to be true, check it out.
The big part of advertising’s job is to get potential clients or customers to find out more.
The $19 price is a good lure. Perhaps Homeaglow figures that it’s a great hook to get people to check out its Web site.
If you Google Homeaglow, you may find an array of reviews for the service.
House cleaning services can be tricky. If you are particular, as many are, about how your house is cleaned, you may want the same person doing it every time.
Companies like Homeaglow may send a different cleaner every time. They may do different things. You may want to specify to your house cleaner what you want done, and how you want it done.
If you have the same person, or the same two people, clean your house every time, you can build up enough trust with them that you can leave your house while it is being cleaned. If you have different people every time, you may not feel comfortable leaving them alone in your house.
Some people are so particular about house cleaning that they HAVE to do it themselves.
Or, it may not be in the budget for some to pay for house cleaning.
But, if you are in the market for someone to clean your house, get references and check them out.
Make sure that what they are charging fits the going market price, and you are comfortable paying it.
Companies like Homeaglow may seem cheaper than private cleaning services, perhaps because they can get multiple houses on the same street. But, if you want to know who is cleaning your house, and you want the same person every time, a private cleaner may be better.
If you are using a cleaner for the first time, and you have left them in your house unsupervised, check around after the cleaner has left to make sure he or she did what he or she said he or she was going to do, and to make sure nothing is out of place.
When deciding whether to have someone else clean your house, determine how particular you are and whether that person, company or anyone can live up to your standards.
Also, presuming you can afford the service, determine how much your time is worth. Could you be doing something more valuable to you than spending time cleaning? Could you be working, and earning money, for example?
Balancing work, leisure and household chores can be a challenge. Remember, if you can afford to do it, your time doing other things can be worth more to you than doing some of the necessary chores of life yourself.
Peter