{"id":727,"date":"2020-01-18T07:30:22","date_gmt":"2020-01-18T07:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zenmaid.com\/magazine\/?p=727"},"modified":"2025-05-22T03:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T03:16:07","slug":"facebook-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zenmaid.com\/magazine\/facebook-ads\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Ads are a Waste of Your Cleaning Business\u2019 Time and Money"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The following video was accurate at the time of publishing this post, however now (in 2019) it is not. Facebook Advertising is a great way to promote and grow your maid service thanks to a lot of work done by the Facebook team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are leaving the video below up so you can see what the world used to be like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The video below just went viral online and is a pretty clear explanation of the problems you\u2019ll run into advertising your cleaning business on Facebook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>In a nutshell:<\/strong>&nbsp;<em>the likes you pay for are unlikely to actually help your business and could in fact very much hurt your Facebook presence and business. The video below explains why.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/zenmaidmastermind\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zenmaid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/FB-group-banner.png\" alt=\"Facebook Ads for Cleaning Business are a Waste\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please note that we at ZenMaid still believe that having an active Facebook page (and promoting it to your customers) is a very good and powerful tool at your disposal. We simply advocate against spending money to promote your Facebook page whether that be directly to the big FB or to outside services offering to \u201cboost your Facebook likes or fans\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Facebook Fraud\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oVfHeWTKjag?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>About the author: Amar is the founder and CEO of ZenMaid Software, Inc (<a href=\"https:\/\/zenmaid.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">www.ZenMaid.com<\/a>). He previously started and ran Fast Friendly Spotless, a maid service in Orange County, CA. With the help of customized software to automate work he successfully operated the service in under 30 minutes per day. His goal with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/zenmaid.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">www.ZenMaid.com<\/a>&nbsp;is to help other maid service owners do the same.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ads on Facebook are a Waste of Your Cleaning Business\u2019 Time and Money [video]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"Facebook Ads: Waste of Your Cleaning Business Money","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"Facebook Ads for Cleaning Business are a Waste","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,25,9],"tags":[30,46,28],"class_list":["post-727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-branding","category-grow-your-maid-service","category-marketing","tag-cleaning-business-growth","tag-facebook-ads-for-cleaning-business","tag-grow-your-maid-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zenmaid.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zenmaid.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zenmaid.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zenmaid.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zenmaid.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=727"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.zenmaid.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11344,"href":"https:\/\/www.zenmaid.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions\/11344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zenmaid.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zenmaid.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zenmaid.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zenmaid.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}