Cleaning with a Mission

"Strive to wake up each day, thinking of ways to clean up our industry's image and scrub away those negative connotations that leave people in a constant state of distrust. Work to polish our procedures and methods to ensure the best job is getting done every time. A clean building means a clean image, and the ability to look in the mirror proudly each and every day is the surest sign of success and happiness."



Brokate Janitorial's new mission statement has been created with a purpose. From every level of our growing janitorial company, we have devoted ourselves to improving the way office cleaning is performed and perceived. It is certainly true that there are many other great janitorial companies that exist around the United States. In fact, Brokate Janitorial communicates regularly with many other companies around the United States that belong to the Global Cleaning Association to discover new ideas, products and methods for everything cleaning related. It's important to have a network of peers to gather together to implement best practices for handling things like the H1N1 Influenza, learning new ways to clean "green" while not driving up costs and how to give customers the most "Bang for their Buck."

Brokate Janitorial hopes to continue to service more and more businesses in Springfield, Nixa, Ozark, Branson and Hollister areas that are looking for both quality and value. If you are interested in getting more "Clean for your Green" then Click Here or give Brokate Janitorial a call at (417) 338-4809 for a Free, No-Hassle, No-Pressure Price Quote on your facility.

Spring to Action! What Springfield, Ozark, Nixa and Branson Businesses need to do NOW!

It's officially Spring, and every good cleaning company knows what that means! No, not Spring Cleaning, but baseball season. You see while many individuals and companies see Spring as a chance to focus on cleaning things up a bit, Brokate Janitorial works around-the-clock, all year long to prevent that need for "Spring Cleaning."

Instead, we are able to continue to "Play Ball" in our facilities for both our day and night cleans. Baseball season, however, is something we can definitely get excited about. While I won't speak on behalf of everybody at Brokate Janitorial, I can say that many look forward to rooting for both the Springfield and St. Louis Cardinals and Albert Pujols for another season. Last year, we marveled along with all of baseball as Pujols finished his season batting .327 and hitting 47 home runs, proving yet again that he is one of the most consistent hitters in baseball. That equates to 186 hits out of 568 at-bats. That means that the best player in baseball failed to get a hit in his other 382 at-bats. While baseball players are afforded the luxury of being able to make mistakes day-in and day-out, many of us are not so lucky.

Each profession has a different margin of error. Some mistakes are far more costly than others, while some professions allow for a certain level of mistakes due to the complexity of the job. In the commercial cleaning industry, companies expect near perfection from the companies they hire to come to bat for them each night. Medical facilities need to be sterile for the next day's patients and offices need to be cleaned, dusted and ready for another day of taking care of business. Sales offices need clean areas for both themselves to mentally prepare for the next pitch, as well as any clients they may encounter face-to-face so that the focus can be on their product or service and not the cobwebs.

This is why establishing a clear "game plan" from the start is essential before ever stepping in the box(facility). While the margin of error is much smaller than baseball, cleaning companies need to be prepared for inevitable errors and mistakes. This is where the importance of having a good management team is essential. Like a batter struggling at the plate, a good cleaning company needs to have the proper oversight and direction to keep it's players doing the correct things, consistently.

A good manager knows how to utilize the strengths and weaknesses of each member of his team, which spots to use them in and when to bench them. Many of the decisions are not easy, but having management in place that takes action and continues to work towards improving the team each and every day, gives everybody the greatest chances of success.

How has your cleaning company adapted to your evolving needs?

If you feel your cleaning coming may be playing "small-ball" to your Big-League needs, give Brokate Janitorial a call at (417) 338-4809 to go to bat for you. Our players and management will give your stadium the home-field advantage every company needs!

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Heroes of the Night

The lights of the city go out. Buildings all over town become prime targets for those creatures of the night. The darkness of a building triggers them to action. For Brokate Janitorial, this is much like the Bat-signal, that shines out of a building in need.

For many accounts, their nightly facility cleaners are either considered heroes or villains. They either fly into their account each night and transform their building into a sparkling clean-slate by morning for all to enjoy, OR they are the much talked and griped about villains that do as little as possible each night. Some facilities go through Joker after Joker looking for that caped-crusader of the night to finally show up and save the day.

Getting the right hero to show up and make your facility look exactly how you want it to is, however, more complicated than simply opening up the telephone book and calling everyone listed. Establishing a clear set of tasks that you would like to be performed from the start makes the chances of a successful cleaning program much higher. The second point, is getting input from everybody in the office and letting them all know what is and isn't going to be expected from the outfit you hire.

Creating a nightly cleaning program for your facility can be as easy or complicated as somebody wants to make it. It can be as cheap or as costly too. Some very important questions to ask when looking to restore the balance between cost and results are:

1.) Is your company licensed, bonded and insured? It only takes one door left unlocked, alarm not set, chemicals spilling on a computer or expensive machine, broken glass pane...the list can go on and on, to make that cheap cleaning guy/lady suddenly seem like the MUCH MORE EXPENSIVE option. Or how about hiring somebody like this:

Osage Beach Police say Cleaning Lady Stole Clients' Property

2.) How is the cleaning program going to be trained, monitored, inspected and followed-up with to ensure Quality Assurance?

3.) How well is your company at adapting to the changes of our facility? Whether it be rapid growth or expansion or cutting back in a sluggish economy, it is important to be able to communicate with your company the current needs and have them react quickly.

Here at Brokate Janitorial, we are not only happy to answer all of the questions above, but we also go into each facility with a list of questions, ideas and suggestions to help create a custom cleaning program that will work for you. We want to form a lasting relationship that will leave both sides feeling mutual appreciation.

In the words of Enrique Iglesias, Brokate Janitorial kindly asks you to, "Let Me Be Your Hero"

A Tough Economy, an Even Tougher America

Another year has come and gone. For most people 2009 was a tough year that won't be missed. With unemployment rates very high across the nation, the economy in Southwest Missouri was feeling some of that impact too. Tourism was down, but not gone. A few companies went under, while many others made tough decisions on how to cut expenses and who to lay off. Yet many people remain hopeful and confident in our country to get back on it's feet and back into prosperity.

For Brokate Janitorial, 2009 was a year of milestones. This year Brokate Janitorial gained more business, hired more employee's and went into unchartered waters with new business ventures. All year, the focus of everybody within the company was keeping focused on the task at hand and doing our absolute best at it. We all have felt so fortunate to serve so many businesses in 417 Land and provide more and more families with a means to support themselves.

With so many more people in our area looking for work, trying to keep their businesses afloat, the importance of doing business locally cannot be understated. Not only will you be directly helping the businesses you choose to support, but in turn the dollars they receive will then be passed on to another local business. It's a ripple effect that could have tremendous ramifications if everybody did their part to help one another out.

After all, it's up to us individually and as a community to help each other out and not rely on our government to come to our rescue with handouts. Our company is an absolute believer in the American Dream and idea that anybody can succeed if they are willing to "roll-up their sleeves," not be afraid to get a little dirty and do what needs to be done.

According to Jeremy Brokate, Office Manager for Brokate Janitorial, this year's motto is "First and 10, let's do it again!" He goes on to explain, "We were very fortunate to have such a great year last year. We give all the praise and credit to the hard-working employees of our company that did such a great job in every facet of our business. We just want to keep that momentum going and inch closer to that goal."

Hopefully this nose-to-the-ground, never-give up attitude that is instilled in so many Americans can bring this nation back on its feet quickly and moving in the right direction again.

Brokate Janitorial is Music to Construction Company's Ears!

What do large construction projects and symphony orchestras have in common?

The answer is a lot more than people would initially think.

Both groups are formed by combining a wide-variety of individuals, each with their own set of talents, together for a sole purpose of taking a piece from start to finish. Both require careful planning, coordination, timing and precision to make the end result work for its audience. Both are unique art-forms in their own right. While orchestras put together ranging sounds from various string, horn, brass, percussion and woodwind instruments; a construction project brings in electricians, plumbers, builders, architects and of course, commercial cleaners.

While every electrician, plumber, builder and architect is vital in their own right to bring a project to fruition, the commercial cleaners provide a very different value to the project. The commercial cleaner takes no credit for the design or functionality of the project being completed, but is vital to making all of the other contractor's work shine. In using it in the metaphor, other contractors form the various instruments in an orchestra that weave in and out of the piece, while the commercial cleaners serve as the silence that occurs just between that music stopping and the audience erupting in applause.

Using a professional Construction Clean-Up company such as Brokate Janitorial is often underestimated. The Clean-Up company allows both the construction company and its' hired contractors a much smaller "Punch-List" at the end, and by making the building look clean and new, the owners generally release the retainage in a much shorter time. That means the job gets paid fully much faster, making everyone happy.

To the owners, it provides a sense of completion and appreciation for the work that all of the contractors came together to complete. The owner needs to see the clean look and smell of its building to know the project is actually complete.

Brokate Janitorial provides all types of reliable, flexible Construction Clean-Up services from trash and dust removal throughout the projects early stages, to the very deep and detailed cleaning services on an almost finished project. Those services include but are not limited to: VCT Floor Scrubbing and Waxing, Outside and Inside Window Cleaning, Floor-to-Ceiling dust and residue removal,trash removal, cabinet cleaning inside and out and carpet cleaning. From "rough-to-fluff" Brokate Janitorial does it all.

Brokate Janitorial also offers one free service with every construction project it works on, that "new-building" smell. With all Brokate Janitorial can do for a construction project, it should sound like a mighty good option for construction companies!