If you are thinking about starting your own house cleaning business, start
by evaluating your present circumstances. There are no right or wrong answers to these questions, but how you reply will affect what you do.
How much strength and stamina do you have? If you have lots, you can schedule more house cleaning jobs than someone who is more average in these ways.
What times of the week are you available? If you have a job, weekly meetings of any kind, or children that you want or absolutely need to be with at certain times, draw up a schedule of when you could be
available for your new house cleaning business. Do not
worry if there are only a small number of hours per week that you might
work right now. That will be enough to get you started, and you will be glad of the income.
Do you want to work alone or with your partner or another friend? If you have someone compatible to work with, it might
be more fun to work together. Also, it may build it easier if you or your co-worker gets sick or has a family emergency come up.
There are many ways to get customers, and none of them have to cost much. Here are several:
Go to a local copy shop and have some business cards made up. (Or make them yourself on your computer if you happen to understand
how. Office supply stores sell boxes of cardstock already perforated for business card size. Youd positive need
a program capable of creating business cards.) Give these cards out and post them in grocery stores, laundromats, etc.
With a computer and a word processing script (or a poster-making script, if you happen to have one), you might
contruct
a one-page or half-page flyer that says something like: "Dont Have Time to Do It All? Let Lous House Cleaning Business Make Your House Shine! Special Introductory Half-Price Offer!" Be sure to incorporate your title
, phone number, even your email if you have one that you check every day. Indicating your prices will get you more calls. Do not
set your prices too low, a common tendency for new business owners.
Tell every one
you know. Get on the phone and tell your friends. Place a small classified advertisement
in a local shopper-type paper.
Okay, you will soon be grasping
customers. How will you actually do the house cleaning? What tools do you absolutely need to beginning with? There are most definately
as many different answers to this as there are everybody who have started a house cleaning business. Here are some ways to decide what you will do: Poke around on the internet. Ask your mother. Go to a library or bookstore and read.
You may absolutely need to get a business license. Check with the city, town, or county, where you live. This rarely costs much.
So there you have it. You may initial
your own house cleaning business. Go for it!