Crime Scene Cleanup as a business

Laura Spaulding, Spaulding Decon

I was nervous to do today’s interview because my guest today has built an amazing business but it’s the kind of business that typically stays hidden.

Laura Spaulding is the founder of Spaulding Decon, a franchised decontamination service to offer crime scene, hoarding and meth-lab cleanup.

One of the things I find amazing about her story is how she turned this business into a media machine by leveraging social media.

Laura Spaulding

Spaulding Decon

Laura Spaulding is the founder of Spaulding Decon, a franchised decontamination service to offer crime scene, hoarding and meth-lab cleanup.

Laura: Hey, they’re freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner, where, uh, I’m the founder of Mixergy, where I do interviews with entrepreneurs about how they built their businesses for an audience of entrepreneurs who are building their businesses. And I, I wasn’t sure about today’s guest. Not that she, she definitely has a great business.

Um, Laura Spalding created Spalding decon, which what they do is. They clean up crime scenes, they clean up homes of hoarders, that kind of a thing. I saw your videos. You’re showing hoarders like, and the disgusting lives that they have in crime scenes on YouTube. And it’s so painful and you’re describing it the way that, you know, some of the cooking channels, just describe what they’re making for dinner.

And I’m a squeamish person and I really struggled to watch it, but here’s the thing that made me want to have you on you are in an industry that’s kind of a...

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