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Cleaning – We all have to do, but there are many people and businesses that will pay you to clean for them. This means you can make allot of money just working part time hours. There are many options that you can do, from cleaning commercially, to house cleaning. All you need is just a…
Cleaning – We all have to do, but there are many people and businesses that will pay you to clean for them. This means you can make allot of money just working part time hours. There are many options that you can do, from cleaning commercially, to house cleaning. All you need is just a few jobs a week to earn enough money to live comfortably.
This is fairly cheap to start up.
- A vacuum – To get started you can buy a good used one.
- You may need to get insurance for your business in case of accidents. If you are cleaning alone, you may still want to talk to your insurance company to see if it’s required. Many commercial cleaning jobs will require you to have insurance before you start to clean for them.
- Cleaning supplies, spray bottles, rags, window cleaners, oven cleaners ect.
- Brooms, mops
- Eye Catching flyer. You can make these yourself on your computer at home. There are many great ideals online on how to create one.
How to Find jobs:
- Word of mouth is the easiest way to find work. Ask around – Tell friends that you are starting your own cleaning service and see who they know that could use your services.
- Fax a copy of your flyer to businesses or apartment complexes for commercial cleaning jobs.
- For residential jobs, put your flyers in stores and bullitin boards
- List your new business on Craigslist.
- Go door to door and put your flyer on homes in the area.
- Hand out business cards to everyone that you know.
Once you get a few jobs you will quickly add more work. It doesn’t take long to build this business to the point where you will have more work than you can handle.
Tips to help you:
- Make a check list of things that you want to clean at each place, this way you will know what you need to do, and to ensure that you complete each job. You can do this on your computer. Go room by room and make a detailed list of what you will do in each room. We used to do vacant apartments and we had our checklist for each room of what needed done. Anything that wasn’t on our checklist that we had to do, we charged more.
- Pricing is different in different area’s. You can look online and see what the going rate is, or ask people that use cleaning services what they pay. Call other cleaning companies and ask for an over the phone quote.
- It’s your decision to charge by the hour or by the job. We found charging by the job made us more money. Some jobs you may work harder and feel like your losing, but many jobs are quick and easy and you can breeze right through them.
- Show your customers your checklist, you can make it part of your package that you give them with a contract of what is due to you at the end of the work that you do.
- Make your own Invoices and Contracts on the computer to save money, You can download free templates from Microsoft Office Online and customize them. They don’t need to be fancy to start.
- Keep track of your expenses, even mileage for your taxes. Consult a tax professional to see what you need to keep up with. One Great software to use would be Quick books. This will not only keep up with your Tax receipts, but you can also use it to create invoices and simple contract.
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