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Profiting From A House Cleaning Business
Author: ToniChainbridge
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Making money and profiting from your own cleaning business is easier than you think. Don't know how to start? Lets read through this article to start with the basics of setting up your own home cleaning business.
House cleaning is in big demand at the moment and it will continue to be in demand over the coming years. The reason being is that peoples' lifestyles have changed and more and more people are turning to house cleaning services to help free up some of their time. Why not get in on the act now, take advantage of this demand, and start profiting from your own home-based house cleaning business!
Please find below some of the main aspects you should know in order to set up as an Indpendent Cleaner.
Your Business Name:
Identifying a name for your business is very important. This gives you an identity and is also needed for advertising purposes. Look through your local Yellow Pages to give you an idea of names in the house cleaning section. Don't copy any name, but think of something similar along those lines.
No matter how small your business is, even sole-traders, you should take your business serious from the beginning. By giving your business a good name is a great start by giving you your identity within the industry.
Choosing Your Customers & Territory:
You need to know who your customers are going to be and where they live. You might not have your own transport, so this will have to be taken into consideration. If you have a car then you will be able to travel further a field and be able to do more cleans per day.
Therefore, if you do not have your own car then it would be wise to find customers where you live. However, you will need to identify if these people actually have the available funds to pay for a cleaning service.
To summarise this, you really need to know if your target customers can afford you. Secondly, you need to know if there will be enough customers who live close to one-another. In an ideal world you should try and find as many customers as you can within a short range of each other. This will cut down your travelling time dramatically.
Set-Up Expenses:
With your own small business, trading as a sole-trader you will find that you need next to zero start-up costs. Many cleaners who work on their own will normally use the cleaning products & equipment based at their customers' home. Do you see how you can start profiting immediately from this business?
Let's take a look at what you can spend a few dollars on to set-up shop:
o An apron and tabard
o Marketing
o Travelling costs
Setting The Price:
You now want to set youself an hourly rate. Find your Yellow Pages and ring around all the other Independent Cleaners in your area to figure out what they charge. Tip: pretend to be an enquier, don't tell them you are going to be one of their competitors!
Since you have completed your price research you can decide if you want to set your rates lower, higher or in-line with your competitors. Tip: don't charge too low, cheap sometimes reflects shoddy work!
Marketing:
If you don't carry out advertising activities, then know one will know about your cleaning service. The best and cheapest way to do this is to create small flyers and to put them directly into your potential customers' mailbox. Make hundreds if not thousands of these.
Produce your flyer by typing it up in a word file. If you can't do this then find somebody who can. Ideally you will want two flyers on a page. Go to your local printers or library and have them copied as many times as you can handle or can afford (hopefully a few hundred copies).
Get your flyers distributed by the bucket-load. This doesn't take as long as you think. You never know, when you return home you might have a message on your answer machine!
If your budget allows, it is worth putting an ad in your local Yellow Pages. If not next year will do.
Expanding Your Business:
Seriously think about hiring cleaners when your diary gets too full. You can start to make double, triple, then quadruple the money. It's worth thinking about for the future.
Put an ad in your local newspaper advertising for a cleaner. Once you have chosen a satisfactory candidate take him/her with you on your cleaning rounds for him/her to get used to your cleaning methods and techniques.
Gain new customers and let your newly trained cleaner take on those extra clients!
Once you are totally confident with managing cleaning staff there is no reason why you can't hire more cleaners.
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About the author: Toni Chainbridge will show you how to set up and successfully manage your own house cleaning business. Also, why not visit her site to find out some of the top house cleaning tips. Get a totally unique version of this article from our article submission service
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