Profiting From A House Cleaning Business

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.

Home cleaning is becoming an exceptionally popular service today. Why? Because more and more people's lifestyles have changed. In general people are much busier than what they were a few years ago and people are seeking help from services to help them out with house-hold chores.

You have to decide if you want some of this action now - while the demand is huge and still growing. Starting your own house cleaning business has never been at a better time than today.

Read on to find out the main points for anyone who is wanting to start their own Independent House Cleaning Business.

Your Business Name:

For advertising purposes you really should give your cleaning service a name. It could just be your own name, i.e. 'Joan Walter's House Cleaning' or you could give it a more generic name i.e. 'Your Sparkly House'. Well, you get the idea anyway!

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:

Understanding who you want as your customers and where they live is important. If you do not have your own vehicle, then please take this into consideration for travelling times between clients. However, if you do own your own vehicle, then you will be able to squeeze more cleans in 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.

So basically you need to know who can afford to pay for a cleaner. You also need to know if there are enough of these premium customers within a certain proximity of each other? Ideally you would want as many customers as close to each other as possible. This way you can do more cleans per day and not lose too much time travelling from one customer to another.

Costs for Set-Up:

Being a sole-trader within your own small business will require very little overheads and start-up costs. For example, most independent cleaners will usually use the clients' cleaning equipment and products. So in effect, you should not really need to buy any at all. For this reason, this is how you can make a great profit from the beginning!

Let's take a look at what you can spend a few dollars on to set-up shop:

o An apron/tabard

o Advertising

o Money spent on travel

Pricing:

Setting a price structure is your next step. My advice would be to call your competitors, found in your Yellow Pages. Pretend you are an enquirer and ask what they charge.

You can then set your hourly rate in proportion with your competitors. Whether you choose to undercut them, charge the same, or set your prices slightly higher is totally up to you.

Advertising:

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).

Put your flyers out by the hundreds if you can. You will be surprised at how quickly this actually takes. Hopefully by the time you get back home, you might even have your first phone call.

In addition to flyers, depending on your budget, advertise your cleaning service in the Yellow Pages. If you cannot afford this from the onset, once you start making some money you can then think about placing an advert then.

Expansion:

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.

All you need to do is advertise in a local newspaper. When you have chosen someone who you like, simply take them with you on your cleans and they will soon pick up your cleaning routines and methods.

Once you are happy and confident that he/she can go and clean on their own, you can then either have some free time to yourself or double your customer base.

You don't have to stop at one cleaner. Now you can 'manage' them, start 'managing' more...

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Author Toni Chainbridge can show you how to set up and successfully run your own house cleaning business. Also, visit her site to find out some of the top house cleaning tips.

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