Bringing Reliable Cleaning Services with a SparkleMafia Touch

SparkleMafia Professional Cleaning was started on the weekends in November of 2011 by Arlene Hubbard and it officially became her full-time licensed business in April of 2012.  Arlene grew up on the Kitsap Peninsula in the Poulsbo/Silverdale area. Her dad worked at the shipyard and her mom worked at the hospital. Both of them instilled in her the importance of honesty and integrity and a dedication to both hard work and the pursuit of excellence in all she does.

Early on, Arlene worked for a local non-profit that helps take care of orphaned and destitute children living in Africa and the Caribbean. She helped with marketing and led teams of interns overseas to assist in the mission’s efforts to build children’s home, schools, churches, and medical clinics. To this day Arlene has a great love for the people of Sierra Leone, West Africa where many relationships where formed with children whose lives have been changed by the work of Children of the Nations.  Later she went back to school and gained her Masters in Business Administration, with a focus on entrepreneurship and started SparkleMafia LLC. This both helped put her through school and gain the practical skills of running a business with the hope to not only serve others through cleaning, which she love to do, but also help those who have the same dream of owning their own business gain the confidence and knowledge needed to be successful.

We are often asked “Why ‘Mafia’?  Sparkle makes sense… but did the name come from?”  In her twenties, Arlene and some friends formed ‘SparkleMafia’ as a “club” of girls that played practical jokes on other friends. It was a way they brought a little fun and joy to life. They let people know they cared about them by leaving them a crazy mad-lib message on their windshield along with some honey and glitter on their windows. They had a strict code of conduct, nothing was to be done that was mean or would cause damage – just silly and a little mischievous.  The element of surprise and doing random acts of “kindness” made it tons of fun, and soon more friend wanted to join their club. Years later, when considering what to name her business, Arlene wanted to bring in that sense of fun and surprise to cleaning by finding ways to add that little extra sparkle to someone’s day.

Though she has traded in the mad-libs for friendly notes and texts, and the honey and glitter for sparkle and shine, her team still does their best to find ways to bring a smile to their client’s faces. Plus it’s been fun to be a little creative and playful with their SparkleMafia marketing tag-lines …and have a little laugh with you as we take the work out of housework!

Life is messy, Call SparkleMafia and “forget-about-it!” (A quote from The Godfather.)

We take care of your dirty work!