How To
Start A Cleaning Business Netting Over 6 Figures A Year
BY
CRIMSON CARLITO
Copyright © 2011 Crimson Carlito
All rights reserved.
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DEDICATION
A special dedication goes out to my daughter Daliyah. You have
giving me the strength, motivation and the passion to continue
every day, daddy loves you!
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction
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Why Start A Cleaning Business
Tools Needed
Business Start-Up
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Pg 4
Pg 7
Pg 9
Pg 11
Pg 14
Pg 16
Pg 37
Marketing Your New Business
How You Will Receive Payments
Marketing Your Business
Banks/REO’s Asset Management Contact List
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The author would like to thank his business partner Marie
Edmond and Stephania Evens.
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INTRODUCTIONS
Starting a Cleaning Business
EARN UP TO A SIX-FIGURE INCOME
CLEANING OUT HOMES AND BUSINESS
Learn How To Make Thousands Cleaning
Homes! This booming business has been showcased
on Oprah, 20/20, and many news stations across the
US! Make big money cleaning foreclosed homes!
As you can see, this is a huge and exploding business!
People and Businesses desperately NEED skilled
vendors to help them service their properties and businesses!
A cleaning business is a great business
because there is so much work out there and so few
qualified vendors to assist the banks! There are cleaning business companies making over 1 Million per year just
cleaning homes!
WELL, NOT IN THIS INDUSTRY! WE ARE BOOMING! You are
about to learn the outstanding business of Property
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STARTING A CLEANING BUSINESS
Preservation! Study it, learn it, and follow the steps needed
and the business will come to you!
The opportunity for you, clients have to find someone to
preserve, maintain, and clean there properties and businesses. Unlike many
business opportunities, most of us learn about the
opportunity after the facts. The need for qualified service reps is going to be
HUGE!!
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1 WHY START A CLEANING BUSINESS?
If you're looking to go into business for yourself, start by asking yourself what you want to get out of your enterprise. Richard Sparacio, President and co-founder of MaidPro Franchising, asked himself something similar back in 1991 when he decided to start a home cleaning company. "Before I even thought about how to start a cleaning service, I asked myself why I should go into the residential cleaning industry. Once I answered that for myself, I knew I would be poised with the confidence I needed to start the best house cleaning business out there."
So, what did Sparacio come up with? The simple answer is that home cleaning offered a recurring business model with payment at the time of service. But, time and experience showed that there were many other benefits to choosing this industry. "In other industries, owners may experience the busiest day of the year on opening day, and are left crossing their fingers that the revenue volume will stick. The expenses for these early days are often the highest, too." Sparacio says. In residential cleaning, a great deal of risk is allayed by building your business a few clients at a time. This steady start allows the owner to master the moving parts of the business, one step at a time. Those are a few great reasons to start a home cleaning company.
Sparacio also wanted to make sure he started a home cleaning business that people would be happy to work for. "Whether you're an employee or a business owner, everyone needs to take a break from work sometimes. I can't imagine owning a business that stays open nights and weekends or worse, holidays." The core hours of operation for a residential cleaning business are early mornings until late afternoons, five days a week. With longer commute times and more travel required for many professional positions, regular working hours is a huge perk in the cleaning industry.
Today, revenues from home cleaning services are still growing at a staggering rate. Gains will be driven by ongoing increases in the number of households and the number of business establishments, as well as the increasing availability and affordability of cleaning services. Changes in demographics will also support increasing home cleaning business revenues as the number of dual income household’s rise and the US population ages. Dual-income families often do not have the time or inclination to perform home cleaning tasks, and the growing number of baby boomers in the US generally has the financial wherewithal to use professional services on a routine basis.
The shift away from "do it yourself" to "do it for me" will persist, especially in the house cleaning market. Whether they're not good at it, they don't have time, or they just plain don't like it, residential cleaning customers want someone else to clean their homes, and there will always be someone there to do it.
So, why start a home cleaning company? In short, it's a great life style business that's affordable to get into...with lots of potential for growth.
Of all home businesses, the cleaning business is an ideal opportunity for several reasons. First, it requires very little upfront money to get started. For roughly two hundred dollar investment for equipment, you can be in business and ready to make money within a week’s time. Secondly, it pays very well. Believe it or not, you can make between thirty and sixty dollars per hour cleaning. Not only that, you can make between fifty and even a hundred dollars an hour cleaning gutters.
If you hire some workers you can make even more, as we will discuss later. You can even set it up your business to run on autopilot mode, as I have done. By lining up all of the work on the telephone and having workers perform the labor for you, you can make a sizeable income and not have to perform any type of manual labor.
Also, there is a huge market for cleaning jobs. Everyone who owns a house or business has windows and nobody wants to clean them by themselves. You will be surprised at the consistent response and the never-ending demand for window cleaning that you will experience one you start your own cleaning business.
Why Start A Cleaning Business?
I had three other friends who did the exact same work and we never encroached on each other’s ability to make a living. Not to mention any other companies in your area, there is always enough work for everyone especially for you since the population is constantly growing and new homes and businesses are being built to serve them.
Lastly, you can make a substantial amount of money. If you work by yourself, you can easily do two or three big window cleaning jobs in one day making 0 to 0 a day. I suggest finding one worker to help you get through more jobs per day.
If you have one helper, you can get through five to six big jobs and make 0 to 00 while paying your worker or even an hour, leaving your window cleaning business with a very nice profit margin and more importantly, lightening your workload by cutting it almost in half. If you are a hard-worker you can make even more. If you are not big on physical labor you could still make 0 a day cleaning windows without breaking a sweat.
Why Start A Cleaning Business?
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STARTING
A CLEANING
BUSINESS
2 TOOLS NEEDED
The following are technological tools you will need to
perform Cleanuping-Property Preservation
Services:
Internet Connection
Cell Phone (preferably with internet and texting capabilities)
Website
Digital camera
Answering machine
Fax machine
Scanner
Wireless Service for Cell Phone (optional); But it does allow
you to receive your work orders from anywhere you are
Paper
Pen
Your work order papers regarding the current property
The banks contact phone number or Real estate agents phone
number to contact
What services can vendors and
contractors perform?
Bi-Weekly or Monthly lawn maintenance (Depending upon
the geographical area of the property)
REO trash-outs and debris removal
Pool Maintenance & Repair
Automobile removal
Hazardous Waste Removal
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Install
new or repair flooring (as needed)
Replace or repair windows (as needed)
And many more…..
We want you to success and getting started properly is one
of the keys to success! So let’s get started!!
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STARTING A CLEANING BUSINESS
3 BUSINESS START-UP
Naming your business: You are going to have to decide on a
name for your new business. I highly recommend it state
something regarding your new business and the services you
offer. This way it will be easy for the clients to remember your company, thus increasing the amount of work you will get from them.
If you have not gotten your business license, your employer
identification number, or set up your business type (sole
proprietor, partnership, C Corporation, LLC, or S Corporation).
Some businesses can be formed and started within 3 business
days or less.
General Liability Insurance: Next, you are going to want to
start receiving quotes for general liability insurance and
worker’s compensation insurance to decide which company
will offer you the best insurance for the best price. You will
need worker’s compensation insurance if you will be having
employees also, if you are having family members work with
you in your business-generally you do need workman’s
compensation insurance. Check with your local state
regarding their specific rules. Generally, some clients require a
$1,000,000 policy, this is the standard.
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Website:
You
will definitely want to have a website in this
business. The clients in this business will feel you are very professional with your own website and this is a must have in this business. Once you
have your website up and running, make sure to submit it to
all the search engines so your website can be found.
Many places charge for these services.
Purchasing Your Tools And Supplies: Next, you will want to
start purchasing your items needed for your new business if
you do not have them already. There are some must have in
this business such as a digital camera, cell phone, internet
connection.