Profiting From A Home 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 begin with the basics of setting up your own home cleaning business.
House cleaning is in massive demand this day. It is forecast for this trend to continue over the foreseeable future. Have you noticed that people tend to be more in a hurry and are much busier these days? This means that people are willing to pay service providers to help them with mundane and each day chores – such as house cleaners.
Do you see where we’re going here? You should really look into this and comprehend that the demand is ‘now’ (and rising). This can only mean that you’ll have less competitors this day than if you start in a year or two’s time.
Please find below some of the main aspects you should know in order to set up as an Indpendent Cleaner.
Choosing a Name For Your Business:
Spend some time thinking up a suitable name for your home cleaning service. If you’re stuck on ideas, do a search online for ‘house cleaning services’ to give you an idea of what your competitors are calling themselves. A good business name is important to give your business an identity in itself and is also important for your advertising and marketing.
An identify for your business is very important and a good name helps provide this. Just because you want to work on your own as an independent cleaner doesn’t mean that you should not take your business serious, because you should.
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’ve a automobile then you will be able to travel further a field and be able to do more cleans per day.
If you don’t have your own transport, then you should try and target people near where you live. But you’ll also need to identify if the people in your area have the money to pay for a cleaner.
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.
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?
The following are what you will probably have to spend some money on:
o A tabard/apron
o Marketing
o Money spent on travel
Setting The Price:
You need to set yourself a price structure. The ideal way to do this is to ring around the local cleaners in your Yellow Pages and find out what they’re charging. Get into ‘acting mode’ and pretend that you are finding out rates for yourself.
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 completely up to you.
Getting the Word Out:
If you don’t carry out advertising activities, then know one will know about your cleaning service. The ideal 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’ll 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).
Post hundreds of flyers out through prospective mailboxes. This will keep you fit and really doesn’t take that long. A surprise telephone message might be waiting for you when you get back home!
Depending on your budget, you could think about putting an ad in the Yellow Pages. Don’t worry if you can’t afford it, put one in next year instead.
Expanding:
Now that you’ve a full client list of your own you might think about hiring some help. This is just the begin of things, you could end up hiring dozens of cleaners and put your own feet up!
All you need to do is advertise in a local newspaper. When you’ve chosen someone who you like, simply take them with you on your cleans and they will soon pick up your cleaning routines and methods.
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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