Bio-Trauma 911, Inc. has hosted and taught a crime scene cleanup training course since 2007 and has trained hundreds of crime scene cleanup technicians from around the world.  Our crime scene cleanup course is one of the most competitively priced courses offered in the United States and our staff is committed to providing a comprehensive and dynamic learning experience to each and every student.  Complete with Power Point presentations, videos, study materials, professional instruction and hands-on training, its value cannot be matched. Class size generally ranges from six to ten students and class seats do not last long.  If you are interested in attending our course, please visit http://www.biotrauma911.com/crime-scene-cleanup-training.html for more information.

After viewing the information on our training page (the above link) and you have an interest in attending our course, please remember to complete the reservation form.  Since this upcoming class has only a few seats left, it is recommended that you pay at least a deposit to hold your seat or pay the full amount for the class seat up front.  We will not hold a class seat if full payment is not received prior to the start of the class.

Bio-Trauma 911, Inc. does not offer any type of financial aid and does not act as a job placement agency. Should you have any questions regarding our crime scene cleanup training course or the reservation process, please contact Martha Lenz at 1-800-759-6960

Yesterday Bio-Trauma 911, Inc., through networkPRIDE, launched what we believe is the first ever Biohazard Remediation / Crime Scene Cleanup phone app.  While it is currently only available through the Google Play Store, we plan to offer the app through iTunes in the very near future.  This new marketing tool, in addition to other projects in the works, should help to put our networkPRIDE members in front of millions of new potential clients.

While our app is currently and will constantly be improved and updated, one of the features it provides is an interactive map of our members and their locations.   In its current implementation, our map displays full contact information for our Premium Members, to include: name, address, phone number, email address, website address, contact name and more.  Associate Members are displayed by company name and address only.  A future upgrade may also include a search feature to enable clients to better find your business. As our Premium Membership base grows, associate members will be removed from this app feature.

If you wish to learn more about networkPRIDE Premium Membership, please visit biotrauma911.com/networkPRIDE-premium-member.html

To view our new phone app, please visit the Google Play Store, search for “Biohazard” and look for networkPRIDE.  Within a few days (maybe a week) other keyword searches will also locate our app. You may also click the image below to open our app in the desktop version of Google Play Store or find an app link at the bottom of biotrauma911.com.

Going forward, this app will be advertised through the Google Play Store, several websites and pushed out to coroners, medical examiners and others nationwide.  Isn’t it time to consider joining networkPRIDE?

CleanupDirectory.com and its sister sites now receive over 15,000 visitors a month.  Our visitors are looking for Crime & Trauma Scene Cleanup companies that service all parts of the United States.  Visitors are also searching our business directory for property restoration, mold removal and other biohazard remediation services.

In addition to our business directory, visitors can also find and print our free PDF Crime & Trauma Scene Cleanup Directory.  This handy desktop version is perfect for the desk drawer or maintenance folder and is a quick access guide for insurance adjusters and other businesses that may be in need of the services you offer.  This directory is made up of the paid listing members of CleanupDirectory.com.  Our current version will be updated with new members at the end of May 2012.

CleanupDirectory.com has over 100 sister sites that generate business leads for our members.  When these leads come into our office, we send the leads to our paid members via email.  Our members generally receive solid leads within a couple of hours of the original request.  Many of our members have secured top-paying contracts through these leads.  Since March 2012, we have sent approximately 58 of these leads to our listing members.

CleanupDirectory.com is the top Crime Scene Cleanup directory in the United States.  It is one of the most inexpensive advertising opportunities you will have that puts your business in front of thousands of potential customers.   Here is a partial list of the features available to our listing members:

• Through the use of a control panel, our members are in complete control of their listing page, which can be changed as often as they like and at any time they wish
• A yearly platinum listing (our best) is only $99 for an entire year!
• Our member’s listing pages are linked to Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Skype
• Members can write several paragraphs about their business and the services offered
• Members can upload to their listing page: photos, sales literature, logo and more
• Members enjoy free banner ads prominently displayed throughout the directory
• Members receive traffic to their listing page, which has a link to the member’s company website
• Members receive direct business leads from our office
• Members are included in our PDF Crime & Trauma Scene Cleanup Directory
• Our customer service is second to none!

To learn more about our listing opportunities, please visit http://www.cleanupdirectory.com/compare.php.

If you have any trouble with the listing process, please use the “Contact Us” button and we will walk you through the process.  For information about editing your listing once you become a member, please visit http://www.cleanupdirectory.com/Blog/directory-listings/how-to-edit-your-listing/

On almost a daily basis our office receives crime & trauma scene cleanup requests from all parts of the United States.  While these service requests are sent out to our current listing members, many are in areas (such as California) that are not serviced by our current members. 

CleanupDirectory.com brings in 1,000′s of unique visitors every month.  Our listing members receive business exposure through their listing page, which includes photos, sales literature, banner ads and links to website, email, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and much more.  Through our sister sites, our directory generates service leads that come directory to our office.  These leads are then sent out to our listing members.

Please take a few minutes to visit our directory at CleanupDirectory.com.  If you find that your company services a particular state or an area where we have no other companies listed, please consider adding a listing.  Most of our most popular categories have received over 10,000 hits.  These hits do not include the thousands of visitors received by our sister websites.

To learn more about advertising with CleanupDirectory.com, please visit www.cleanupdirectory.com/compare.php

Visitors to this page may also be looking for: crime scene cleanup advertising, hoarding cleanup, suicide cleanup, gross filth cleanup

Sometimes we have no choice. For one reason or another a sustainable revenue is beyond our reach. Business must close for the last time and there’s nothing we can do about it. Or is there?

On more than one occassion our office has been contacted by a business owner in search of a buyer for their fledgeling business.  After less than a year in operation as a crime scene cleanup business and thousands in debt, one by one business owners decide it’s time to throw in the towel.  When asked why so soon, the answer is generally related to either a lack of business or too much competition.

Without a doubt business in the crime scene cleanup industry is sporadic.  There seems to be no rhyme or reason why one week there’s more work than can adequtely be staffed, while the next week the only incoming calls are from a fast talking salesman promising to make you rich with a $10 investment. But, it doesn’t have to be this way.

Here are some common misconceptions about business marketing, advertising and growth, primarily in the crime scene cleanup industry, and the correct concept that should be applied in these given examples.

1. FALSE – There is too much competition.  TRUE – As within any industry, there are a lot of businesses in the crime scene cleanup industry vying for the same jobs and sales leads as your company.  However, if these businesses overcharge, provide poor customer support and offer an inferior service, are they truely competitors?  Set yourself apart from other businesses and you’ll find that there are far fewer who are direct competitors.   
2. FALSE – As long as I have a hightly optimized website that ranks at the top of Google, I will get business.  TRUE – One of the most common business misconceptions is the idea that one marketing (advertising) mechanism will promote and sustain growth.  Although a highly optimized website is incredibly important, a proper marketing plan has to have several layers.  Marketing areas such as direct mail, telemarketing, promotional products, brochures, phonebook advertisements and crime scene cleanup business directories will maximize your ROI and chances of success.  Diversified marketing initiatives isn’t optional – it’s necessary.
3. FALSE – A good marketing program will yield immediate results.  TRUE – Even an award winning marketing campaign will probably not result in thousands of customers breaking down your door to reap the benefits of whatever it is you have to offer.  A good marketing campaign will generally result in increased revenue, but it takes time.  Often related to the success of any marketing compaign is ”name recognition”.  Just as a marketing campaign takes time to generate any measurable increase in sales volume, so too does name recognition. A new business, regardless of the benefits outlined in any marketing or advertising campaign, may not see a marked influx of new clients until such time that they are better known to the community.
4. FALSE – I don’t need an accountant.  TRUE – You should! Too many small business fail due to tax payment issues.  Tax liabilities in the form of penalties and interest are often compounded on top of smaller more manageable federal, state and local payroll tax liabilities that are not paid in a timely manner.  An accountant can help to keep you and your business on track. A missed filing deadline or improper paperwork can result in thousands of dollars in penalities and interest.  Once a company falls behind in payment of their tax liabilities, it’s often too hard to catch up.
5. FALSE – If I build it or create it, they will come.  TRUE – Just because you think your idea is good doesn’t mean anyone else will.  If you believe in your product or service, your immediate goal should be to convince others.  If you are excited about your new business venture, you must find a way to excite those who may use the product or service you have to offer.  Failure to motivate your target market will result in failure!
6. FALSE – Owning my own business will be a lot easier and more profitable than working for someone else.  TRUE – On the contrary most small businesses require more time and result in less money for the business owner.  Don’t become a small business owner because it’s a sure way to riches.  Chances are likely that you will work more hours and generate less income for yourself during the first couple years of business.  If you are successful in making it through the first couple of years, you may see the benefits of business ownership.  Most small businesses that make it past five years will see a better opportunity of long-term success.
7. FALSE – I don’t need much money to start a crime scene cleanup business.  TRUE – Under capitalization, or lack of sufficient operating capital, is a primary reason for new business failures.  When starting your new business, plan on having at least enough money in your bank account to sustain your business through the first year.  Your budget for the first year should include, at the very least, the business owner’s salary, payroll, payroll tax liabilities, rent, insurance, office equipment and supplies, tools and chemicals, uniforms or PPE and an additional 10% for unexpected expenses.  If these budgeted items add up to $35,000, this money should be available for immediate disposal.

Understanding these common misconceptions may help you to stay in business long enough to generate a sustainable income that will ensure your continued business success.

CleanupDirectory.com is the most popular Crime Scene Cleanup Directory around.  With well over 6,000 visitors a month and over 80,000 visitors since its creation, people in need of assistance turn to CleanupDirectory.com.  Through our directory member’s listing pages and sister sites such as this one in Georgia, our members are easy to find and easy to contact.  Gone are the days when victims and traumatized family members had to sift through hundreds of search engine listings to find a company in their city or neighborhood.   CleanupDirectory.com makes it easy and our efforts are routinely praised by those who have found our members to be polite, knowledgeable and helpful.

Due to our numerous websites, blogs and directories, CleanupDirectory.com receives service requests from potential clients on a weekly basis.  As our members know, these are routinely sent via email as soon as they come into our office.  Recently we sent one such request to our members and received this response back from the client.

 Name: Lori

          City: Prescott Valley         

          State: Arizona

          Email Address:  (Hidden for Privacy)

          How Can We Help: Hoarding

Message: Thank you for your immediate assistance.  Richard Cota called me within 24 hours & is very professional. Making me comfortable in my time of need.  Richard came by today to evaluate my situation & a time frame for me to organize before service is started.   I’ve tried for several years to find someone to come in and help, but some individuals really don’t have their heart in this business & Phoenix / Tucson is a long way from Prescott Valley.  Thanks again I’ll email you once the service is completed.

These are the types of emails we receive from clients that we send to our CleanupDirectory.com members.  Unfortunately, we still do not have enough members to cover or handle all of the requests we receive.  Too many requests for service go unanswered simply because we do not have members in the state or city where the request originated.  

If you would like to receive more exposure for your business and the opportunity to bid on the Service Requests that we receive on a regular basis, please consider joining CleanupDirectory.com by following this link JOIN NOW. 

By joining CleanupDirectory.com will you have access to our endless supply of Service Requests generated by our sister websites.  You will also be able to take advantage of the 1,000′s of potential clients who visit our directory each month.  At only $99 a year, CleanupDirectory.com is the most cost effective advertising you will find that actually brings clients to your business through emails, phone calls and website exposure.

We want to reach out to those of you who want more crime scene cleanup business (including hoarding, accidents and other incidents involving blood and bodily fluids).  After nearly three years of helping victims and family members find the help they need, we’re still falling short in our efforts.  On nearly a weekly basis, a victim, family member or friend contacts us for assistance.  Far too often we have to turn down their request for help, simply because we do not have enough members to assist them. 

As a nationwide directory that ranks at the top of Google for many industry keyword searches, we get calls for service and directory visitors from every city and state in the United States.  Although some of the best and largest crime scene cleanup companies are members of our directory, our relatively small list of members are unable to service the entire US.

Here’s a more detailed look at why we need your help:

• CleanupDirectory.com receives over 5000 visitors a month.  These visitors search or view over 16,450 pages in our directory each month.
• Many of our visitors are looking for a crime or trauma scene cleanup company in their area
• There are thirty-one states (31) in our directory that none of our members service!
• There are hundreds of cities in the US that our current members do not service
• We routinely receive calls and emails from potential customers who we are unable to assist

Cleanupdirectory.com recently launched 100′s of city optimized websites, such as http://www.detroit-michigan.hoardingbloodcrimedeath.com/.  Sites such as this one generate service requests that are routinely received by our office.  These requests are immediately sent to our listing members.  Unfortunately, we do not send many of these requests because we have no one available to help in the customer’s city or state.  Here is a sample request that was sent to our members today:

Name: Crystal

City: Denver

State: Colorado

Phone Number: (XXX) XXX-XXXX

Email Address: XXXXX@XXXXXX.com

How Can We Help: Decomposition

Message: My estranged husband died a several days ago. He was found aprox 3 or4 days after death. He died of alcohol poisoning. I have to.clean up his apartment since i am next of kin.

Take some time to look at the front page of our directory.  You’ll see 1,000′s of hits to our various categories.  Our members receive hundreds of visitors to their listing page, emails and direct traffic to their company website.  Recently, we added social media to our member’s listing pages.  Although many have not yet taken advantage of this new feature, our members are able to link their listing and company information to Facebook, Twitter, linkedIn and Skype.

If you want more business, join CleanupDirectory.com.  Once you join, be sure to take advantage of all of the options and features we provide you with.  For example, upload photos, sales brochures, link to social media sites, upload a banner to be displayed throughout our site and much more.

Many of our members that signed up several years ago have changed their email address.  Unfortunately, even though the member renews his or her listing every year, they’re missing out on potential work because their email address is no good. We send “Service Requests” and other information on a regular basis that are returned as undeliverable.  If we can’t reach you, how can a potential customer reach you?  Be sure to keep your information current.  A listing with our directory only costs $99.00 for an entire year.  Just one job from our directory will more than pay for your listing page for many years to come.

We need help!  We need companies who are willing and able to work paying jobs.  If you are an aggressive company that wants more business exposure for your crime scene cleanup company, join CleanupDirectory.com. 

Hoarding, blood, crime and death is the topic of our newest website, HoardingBloodCrimeDeath.com.  This particular website works in conjuction with CleanupDirectory.com and serves to funnel internet traffic to our member’s listing pages.  Since its launch, we have received several emails regarding the purpose of our newest website.  Our team thought it would be helpful if we explained HoardingBloodCrimeDeath.com and its overall purpose.

Although CleanupDirectory.com remains our only “directory” style website in the Crime Scene Cleanup Industry, we are in the process of creating hundreds of sister sites to drive traffic to CleanupDirectory.com.  The above referenced domain, HoardingBloodCrimeDeath.com, is one of those sister sites.  This particular domain is comprised of over 100 sub-domains that have been created and optimized for individual cities and industry specific keywords.  As with most of our sites, HoardingBloodCrimeDeath.com has been optimized for Google.  Our site rankings with other search engines may or may not be similar.

If you take the time to check the following search terms in Google, you will find the following:

• Denver Blood Cleanup – Top 3 Rankings
• Birmingham Blood Cleanup - Top 3 Rankings
• Dallas Blood Cleanup – 3rd & 4th Rankings
• Columbus Blood Cleanup – Top 4 Rankings
• Charlotte Blood Cleanup – Top 3 Rankings
• Memphis Blood Cleanup – 2nd, 3rd & 4th Rankings
• Philadelphia Blood Cleanup – Top 2 Rankings
• Milwaukee Blood Cleanup – 6th, 7th & 8th Rankings
• Portland Blood Cleanup – 4th, 5th & 6th Rankings
• Detroit Blood Cleanup – 1st & 2nd Rankings
• Louisville Blood Cleanup – 1st & 2nd Rankings

These are just a few examples of our website at work for members of CleanupDirectory.com.  Although we used “blood cleanup” as the example search term above, you will find similar rankings for “death cleaning”, “hoarding cleanup” and “crime scene cleanup”, as well as many other search word combinations.  As you can see through the parent website, HoardingBloodCrimeDeath.com, we have only targeted twenty-tw0 (22) states.  In the near future, we will be launching this new website, with its highly optimized sub-domains, to the remaining states.

Our staff routinely sends our members email “service requests”.  Found on each page of our new website(s) is a contact form.  Potential customers may either visit our parent website, CleanupDirectory.com, to search for a member by area or zip code or they may simply fill out the contact form.  If they choose the latter option, our office receives this contact information, which is then forwarded to our members.  Any member who services the area specified in the service request may contact the requesting party and bid on the work in question.  We currently receive several requests a month for hoarding and gross filth cleaning from every part of our targeted market.  Other requests for crime and trauma scene cleanup are also received.

In addition to the service requests we receive via email from HoardingBloodCrimeDeath.com, our parent site has seen a marked increase in monthly traffic.  We expect traffic from all sources to exeed 10,000 visitors a month before spring of 2012.

CleanupDirectory.com does not accept referral or finders fees for any of the work we forward to our listing members.  As we continue to expand our market reach, our members will reap the benefits of increased traffic and business.  These and all of the other benefits associated with membership to CleanupDirectory.com are included in the annual membership fee.

To learn more about our listing process, please visit http://www.cleanupdirectory.com/compare.php.  Our platinum package costs $99 a year.  We currently allow additional listings (over and above the primary listing) for multiple states for only $39 per state/per year.  If you want to take advantage of this discount, please contact us for a coupon code.

On a daily basis our staff receives emails from individuals who are interested in starting a crime scene cleanup business.  Many of those who contact us have previous medical, military or law enforcement experience.  Very few have business experience. 

The Crime Scene Cleanup Industry is unlike many service industries.  Take for example the janitorial industry or security industry.  When a business owner secures a contract in either of these industries, he or she has the opportunity to cater to that particular client on a regular basis.  Both janitorial and security services are typically provided on a daily basis, which provides for a sustained and calculated income.  Crime & trauma scene cleanup does not offer this same type of job security.

Although skills learned in the medical, military and law enforcement fields can play an important role in your decision to start a crime scene cleanup business, it takes much more to be successful. Unlike many service industries where you may be able to rely on one or two big contracts to generate an adequate income, you must willing and able to work harder and smarter in building and maintaining your crime scene cleanup business.

Even though crimes and traumatic events occur on a daily basis, your business will not receive calls for service on a daily basis. As a matter of fact, there may be several days in a row when you receive no business at all.  However effective marketing and advertising, as well as your ability to offer your services at a competitive price, will help to keep these ”profitless” days to a minimum. 

One concept that we continue to preach is that of “name recognition”.  It is imperative in this business (crime scene cleanup) to have your business name known.  Most people are not actively searching for a crime scene cleanup company in the same fashion that they may be looking for an auto mechanic.  People don’t search the web for a crime scene cleanup company to provide them with nightly services, as they would if searching for a security guard company.  However, while people are searching for various things on line, they may come across your business through various directories, pay per click ads, blogs, forums, etc.  Since your business belongs to a rather unique industry, many who indirectly stumble upon your business name and info will, out of curiosity, want to learn more.

At some point in everyone’s life, death or a traumatic incident will occur.  When this happens and that person is in need of the services you offer, you want them to remember your name.  Or at the very least, remember seeing your name somewhere in the past.  Human nature compels us to use a company or service we’re familiar with.  If and when a person (or company) needs your services and a search for “crime scene cleanup” or “hoarding cleanup” is conducted, thousands of search results will be produced.  How will your company stand above your competitors?  Name recognition!  If your name is known by the person conducting the search (that person has seen your name in print elsewhere), chances are likely your company will be selected over your competitors.

Name recognition is not hard to build, but does take time.  Start by finding every directory within your industry that allows for free or inexpensive advertising.  Next, look for free directories outside of your industry to advertise in.  Create a second and third website.  Create and maintain a blog. Take part in industry forums and have a link to your company website in every forum posting.  Create a wiki page. Upload a video about your business to You Tube.  Create a FaceBook page, LinkedIn profile and Twitter page for your business.

You can be successful in the Crime Scene Cleanup Industry, but it will take more work than some of you are prepared to do. Although various technical and management skills are important to every business, previous business experience and some marketing and advertising knowledge will take you far in the successful operation of your new crime scene cleanup business.  To learn more about creating or starting a crime scene cleanup business, please visit http://www.keybusinessideas.com/crime-scene-cleanup.html. 

This month is proving to be the busiest traffic month so far for CleanupDirectory.com.  With the integration of social media to our directory, we can only expect traffic to continue to grow.

In this ever increasingly competitive industry, it’s important for all of us to take advantage of social media to help build name recognition and awareness of the products and services we have to offer.  Since 2009, our directory has been helping companies large and small gain exposure and build name recognition.   Now, with the integration of social media to our business directory, businesses will see an even greater value to the services we provide.

In addition to the other benefits of our recent upgrade, members will now find:

   -  Your business directory listing is now linked to LinkedIn through CleanupDirectory.com
   -  Your business directory listing is now linked to Twitter through CleanupDirectory.com
   -  Your business directory listing is now linked to Facebook through CleanupDirectory.com
   -  Your business directory listing is now linked to Skype through CleanupDirectory.com

In addition to the above, all members will see a Facebook Like/Comment button under their company name in their listing profile.  This feature is one of the best we’ve added to our ongoing list of services.  Now any visitor can “like” your listing page and/or company, which is automatically displayed on their facebook page.  Try it out, it’s GREAT!!!

To view all of these extra services in “action”, please visit http://www.cleanupdirectory.com/bio-trauma-911-inc-15.html.

Thousands of visitors a month find our directory.  Through our directory they may discover your website, send you an email, call you on Skype, view your Twitter page, view your LinkedIn profile, “Like” you on Facebook, view your company photos, download sales literature, learn about your business and so much more.

At $99 a year, this is the best source of advertising you will find.

If you are not a member of CleanupDirectory.com, you may be missing out on business leads and important business exposure.  It may be time to join CleanupDirectory.com!