Before I give you some tips on how to start your own house cleaning business, let’s think about why you might want to do this. It’s really quite a good money-making opportunity for a simple reason: most people dislike cleaning house. They like the results but not the work.
But as everyone knows, houses need cleaning on a regular basis. They just get dirtier each day till something is done. So despite economic woes or crazy schedules, people need to do something about the house, at least sometimes!
And here is your opportunity. Start your own housecleaning business, publicize it, do a good job, and over time you can building up a client list. Some may be weekly customers, and others will want you a bit less often. You can also set your own schedule of days and hours that you can work.
Now for some tips on how to get going:
1. What cleaning supplies do you have and what else will you need? Keep your expenditures to a minimum at this point. Let your first income provide the cash for whatever else is important.
2. As a trade for testimonials, clean a few houses of friends at no cost to them. You will use their written words and their names (with their okay) in advertising but there is an interesting other benefit in doing this step. It gives you a chance to be sure that starting your own cleaning business is what you want to do.
Let me expand a little on that, because it’s important. Notice how you feel cleaning other people’s bathrooms and so on, and also notice how producing the results of nice clean houses makes you feel. If you find you really have to grit your teeth to get through the jobs, then this is not the ideal job for you and you will probably not have the emotional energy to make a success of it. Of course, you don’t have to love every moment of the cleaning process, but be sure you do feel some satisfaction in a job well done.
3. On your own computer or a borrowed one, make some flyers, with Word or something like it. List your name, your phone number, and you email if you use it a lot. Define what kinds of cleaning you do. Use those testimonials, and edit them for the best effect. Also give your rates. Incidentally, before you decide on your rates, do some research into what is usual in your area. Print out the flyers — colored paper makes them easier to notice — and put them on every bulletin board you can find.
4. Find out if you need a business license or other legal requirements and take care of them. This is not usually all that difficult.
5. People generally realize that they need to log income and expenses for eventual income tax purposes, but there is another good reason to get a notebook and write it all down. This will show you how much profit you are actually making.
These tips only scratch the surface of what could be said about starting your own house cleaning business. For more, do come visit my website!
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