20 years in the trenches
I spent two decades in the trenches—so you don’t have to.
I’m Marlon Cummins, a commercial cleaning business coach and consultant. Before coaching, I spent approximately 20 years as a solo commercial-cleaning owner-operator. I retired from cleaning in 2023, and now I help cleaning-business owners identify where opportunities leak and install practical systems to stop them.
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20 years of industry experience |
10 recurring accounts at peak |
Now coach and consultant |
Marlon Cummins
Experience you can verify
Real experience. Hard-earned systems. No hype.
I lived the paperwork.
For 20 years, I dealt with billing, contracts, scopes, and the numbers behind a commercial cleaning business.
I learned what worked.
Today, I turn hard-earned experience into practical guidance for owners building their own cleaning companies.
I understand the overhead.
I paid repair bills, bought supplies, made tough decisions, and carried the real cost of staying in business.
Receipts, contracts and records—real work dating back to 2003
Former owner-operator. Now coach and consultant.
I left the mop behind—but I kept the lessons.
I spent 20 years in commercial cleaning before retiring from the work in 2023. I no longer own a cleaning company or clean office buildings. Today, I use that experience to help cleaning-business owners make better decisions, build practical systems, and avoid the mistakes that kept me stuck.
I didn’t build a massive agency, and I’m not going to pretend I did. At my peak, I managed about 8–10 recurring accounts and brought in roughly $7,000–$8,000 a month as a solo owner-operator. That firsthand experience is the foundation of my coaching—not my current occupation.
“I’m not here to sell you a fantasy. I’m here to turn 20 years of experience into a clearer path for your cleaning business.”
What those years taught me
The real problem wasn’t hard work. It was building without a system.
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Referrals are valuable—but unpredictable.
They helped my business survive, but they never gave me a dependable way to create opportunities. You cannot build confidently around something you cannot control.
02
Being busy isn’t the same as building.
Cleaning every account yourself can produce income while quietly capping growth and consuming the time needed to improve the business.
03
Systems create breathing room.
Simple routines for prospecting, responding, following up, closing and managing clients turn scattered effort into forward movement.
Why Cleaning Pros Hub exists
You may not need more leads. You may need to stop losing the opportunities you already earned.
I built Cleaning Pros Hub to help cleaning-business owners find the exact place jobs are leaking—missed inquiries, slow responses, silent quotes, weak follow-up, or no commercial outreach plan—and fix that problem with practical systems they can actually use.
Choose your next step
Start free. Go as deep as you want.
You don’t have to jump into coaching. Start with clarity, learn the lessons, use the system yourself, or work with me one-on-one.
Not sure what’s broken?
The Clean Lead Scorecard
Find your worst lead leak across seven areas in about 10 minutes. Leave knowing what deserves attention first.
Free Built for busy owners
Want the honest backstory?
Breaking the Solo Trap
Sixty-one pages of hard-earned lessons from 20 years of running a solo commercial cleaning business.
$10 Instant digital access
Ready to build the pipeline yourself?
Commercial Cleaning Clients Without Ads
Use the playbook, scripts, prospect tracker, contact-by-name method, walkthrough checklist, AI coach guide, and 30-day action plan to create consistent outreach without paid ads.
$27 Complete DIY starter system
Want the systems installed with you?
The Leak Fix Sprint
Six weeks, one-on-one. Together we install capture, speed, follow-up, closing, and commercial outreach systems so you leave with a working machine—not a folder of notes.
Founding offer available Six clients at a time
You don’t need to guess your next move
Find the leak first. Then decide how much help you want fixing it.
Take the free Scorecard if you need clarity. Book a strategy call if you already know you want hands-on help.
If the call shows you need more than a first fix, I’ll tell you about the Sprint. If you don’t, I’ll tell you that too.