Start Your Own House Cleaning Business: Here is How
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.
As you have no doubt noticed, houses keep getting dirty, day in and day out. It just keeps happening and it always will. So no matter what the economy is like, no matter how hectic their lives are, people need to get their houses clean, at least now and then!
This is where you come in. If you start your own housecleaning business, you can have clients whose houses you do weekly, biweekly, or even monthly. You can set your schedule around your own needs, too, saying for example, “Sorry, I am not available on Tuesdays.”
Here are some tips on what to do:
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. Do a few house cleaning jobs for friends, in exchange for written testimonials they will give you, with permission to use their names or at least their first names. This step has two purposes: the testimonials will be good for advertising, but even more important, you will have a chance to be sure that you do in fact want to start your own house cleaning business.
This is important, so I will explain a bit more. You may find that you feel a real satisfaction in producing a nice clean house, but you might discover that you really can’t stand to wash out other people’s toilets, to take what might be the worst of it! Naturally you don’t have to love it all, but this is a “moment of truth” about whether this work is a good match for your personality. If you hate it, you are not likely to be a success.
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. Keep good records of what you earn and what your expenses are. You do need this for taxes, but you also want to know how well your business is coming along.
There is a lot more to say about how to start your own house cleaning business, so do take a look at my website!
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