How To Start A Cleaning Service
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A cleaning business is about offering services of dusting, vacuuming
and polishing among some to certain individuals who may not either have
the time, patience or ability to do so.
A cleaning business is made up of two main markets which are residential
and commercial. It’s a business which takes only a little start up
capital and can be situated in your own home. The market is vast. A
reason for this maybe due to the fact that a large segment of married
households are both holding office jobs, thereby giving them less and
less time to tend to the house. Averaging at least twelve hours a day
each including travel leaves barely a few hours for the children when
they get home and hardly enough time to do the household chores.
You would want to target a middle income family with these situations as
your niche market. If your neighborhood comprises a lot of these
households you may not need to travel far to land your contracts. Let’s
take a look at each service in depth.
A residential cleaning business’ main offering is a maid service. It
requires hardworking individuals who have to be thorough in their work.
It also takes very little skill and know how so it should be quite easy
to find a good working staff. Other aspects you will want your staff to
have is that they should not be clumsy, so as to have their head in
their work and be relied upon not to steal the things while they are
servicing somebody’s house. If they can go on without much or little
supervision, this will allow you to be able to schedule several clients
at the same time, thereby increasing your output.
Commercial cleaning services are usually janitorial services, which is
quite similar to maid services but tackles a much greater scope and
variety of work. Your clientele for this may be restaurants, banks,
hotels, offices, shopping malls, bowling alleys, theaters and other
public centers.
So the first thing you should do is plan out your business. You will
need to create a policy on how you will run your operations. You should
device a rate system for the different tasks which you offer, assigning
particular rates of labor to specific jobs. A suggestion is that you
present a basic package consisting of typical tasks to be done in a
general household. This may include dusting, vacuuming and polishing of
floors and usual pieces of furniture, you can package the most common
rooms, perhaps a couple of bedrooms with bathrooms, the family room and
kitchen. For an additional room like a music room or a den, you can line
that up in your task list as an add–on at a specific rate, maybe based
on a per square foot area. You can also charge for removal of stains
from the sofa and deodorizing areas inhabited by household pets. You
must list this down on a job order form so that you and your client may
tally you’re your job completion. They can check everything down on your
checklist. This serves as your contract between you and your customer.
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