Tips on starting a cleaning business?
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You need to know your clients. What are the jobs? How many man hours involved? How much will be spent on cleaning supplies. What about liability insurance. Calculate your costs and multiply it by two. Then bid.
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Entrepreneur Magazine has made a list of low cost businesses that you can start:\n\nLow Cost Startup Businesses http://www.entrepreneur.com/lowcostbusinesses/0,6617,,00.html\n\nStarting a small business takes a lot of courage. But, as they say, courage does not pay the bills. To be successful – to stay in business – you need more than courage. You need a combination of hard work, skill, perseverance, and lots of luck. \n\nSome things you need to consider:\n- "How can I support my family while I build up by business?" \n- "What are my abilities?" \n- "Is there a market for the product or service I have chosen?" \n- "How long will it take this business to reach the financial goal I have?" \n\nYou may want to read the article "How to Start a New Business Successfully" http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol51/launch.htm , which lists six steps to launch a new business successfully:\n\n1. Provide a benefit.\n2. Determine the fit with your market.\n3. Right timing is everything\n4. Be ready to support your business\n5. Develop a blueprint for success (business plan)\n6. Market, market, market\n\nI recommend that you read the following books:\n\n- What No One Ever Tells You About Starting Your Own Business : Real Life Start-Up Advice from 101 Successful Entrepreneurs \n- Starting From Scratch: How To Start A Business When You Don't Have Money \n- If You're Clueless About Starting Your Own Business and Want to Know More \n- On the Move : How to Succeed and Survive As an Entrepreneur \n- How to Make 1000 Mistakes in Business and Still Succeed \n\nThe best home business that you can be sure is not a scam is one that you start yourself. It will depend on what you want, how you define to be interesting. A person may consider a pet sitting business to be the most exciting work in the world, while another person would rather watch TV than take care of dogs. \n\nThe key is to determine what your interests are, what you want to do, what is suitable for your lifestyle and your overall goals, and what can fit with your resources.\n\nDan Ramsey in his book "101 Best Home Businesses" has a chapter on how to find YOUR best home business. He suggests these 10 steps:\n\n1. List 5 things you do best\n2. List how others would benefit from what you do best\n3. Find out how to give people what they want\n4. Learn the value of your services to others\n5. Find out who else offers similar services\n6. Learn from the successes of others\n7. Learn from the failures of others\n8. Plan your own success\n9. Make low cost mistakes\n10. Enjoy what you do and how you do it\n\nHe then made suggestions on the best home businesses according to type. Here are a few of them:\n\nBest Businesses Using Craft or Physical Skills\n- antique restoration\n- auto detail service\n- carpet cleaning business\n- errand/delivery service\n- housecleaning business\n\nBest Service Businesses \n- bed and breakfast operator\n- caregiver\n- catering service\n- senior day care center\n- tutoring service\n\nBest Professional Businesses\n- desktop publisher\n- magazine writer\n- import/export service\n- income tax preparation service\n- event planner\n\nSome other home business ideas:\n\nTop 10 Home Businesses with Rapid Break-Even Time http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol33/breakeven.htm\n10 Profitable “Go-Out" Home Businesses http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol31/goout.htm\n\nYou can also check out the following books:\n\nTurn Your Talents into Profits: 100+ Terrific Ideas for Starting Your Own Home-Based Microbusiness \n The Best Home Businesses for the 21st Century \n 121 Internet Businesses You Can Start from Home \n The Best Internet Businesses You Can Start \n 101 Ways to Make Money at Home
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You can start your own cleaning service and make all you want, work when you want and go fishing when you want.\n\nIt's a great part time business. I make more working part time at my own cleaning service than I do my day job. Check it out. Besides it may be just the thing for you.
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here are some ideas u might can do such as the dog walking just read ok thanks\n\nhere are 20 ideas i really hope u chhose me cause this is a lot of typing and i would  think u can do this stuff in india\n\n1. Parking lot pick up- contact your local businese and offer to clean their parking lots at night/weekends. Charge for the lot or by the h our. all tyou need is a brom and some garbage bags to get started.\n\n2.  start a website biz- go online and start lerning how to develop your own website. once you have it, you can sell things from it or just run interesting information and carry ads from others\n\n3.  apartment/house cleanig\n\nokay it doesnt sound new oor very different but it works.  it seems that no matter ow many cleaning services po up there are always customers to jump on your bandwagon.\n\nand if there any misspelled words sorry\n\nholiday decorating- if youre thandy with decorations, arrange some setups and take photos.  start a website promiting your holiday service to commercial and residential customers or makeappointments to show them your photo protfolio\n\nmove in service- if youve ever moved you know how tough it is to m ove in and clean u up ain just a couple of days. you can start a business offering to do the cleaning before folks move in see if you can tie in with a couple  of moving companies\n\ncouple of more\n\njunk removal  a lot of peopple have junk and stuff in their homes and yards but cant cart it away. they dont have a pick up or the discipline ot get the job don.\n\npet walker all you need is a love of animlas and good reputation to start this business. charge  by the visit\n\ni know these are online making money businesses but with these ideas u can get started for less than a 100 bucks. whewwwwwww my fingers hurt now,lol
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I don't know what industry you were in but from my experience after I was "downsized" I have not been able to come even close to what I was making in a "job. However, now that I started my own business, I am getting closer. \n\nI started my own cleaning service and things are looking good. It's easy to start and you can too. A job is just a job. The owner is the one that keeps most of the profits.\n\nIf you would like to work part time and make some really good cash, you owe it to yourself to at least check this out. If you don't, what will you be leaving unanswered?\n\nTo your success.
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Begin by paying attention to your skills and aptitudes.  Is there a market for what are naturally good at? Can you identify a need or a problem in your area or within a group that your skills solve?\n\nThen you need to take a few business courses.  Look for adult education courses.  I took an Entrepreneurial Assistance Course through a local continuing education program.\n\nYou need to learn about marketing, basic forms of business - sole proprietorship, LLC, Corporation - you need to know something about basic accounting and record keeping, you need to know that no matter how marvelous your idea is and no matter how many people are lined up at your door for your service or product - it will take you a minimum of 3 years to make a profit.\n\nYou will have many start-up costs - equipment, phone, advertising, letterhead, website, transportation, classes, trade magazines.  You may need the services of an accountant.  If you decide to incorporate, you may need legal services.\n\nVisit your local Chamber of Commerce.  Many chambers are affiliated with SCORE - which is a group a retired business executives who give advice for cheap or free. Many chambers also offer cheap or free seminars to members to educate them about local business practices.\n\nYou may also need to register your business with your town or county.  If you are planning to put a sign out advertising your home business, you need to check with your town about the laws regarding business signs in residential areas.\n\nYou may also want to contact the Small Business Association.  In many areas, they have micro loan programs to encourage minority and women-owned businesses to get off the ground.\n\nBeyond that, working from home has several challenges.  You need to be able to work alone, you need a dedicated work space and a separate phone line. You'll need a place to keep your inventory and your business records.  If you have children or pets, you need to be where their sounds or noises do not interfere with your business.\n\nIf you are working at something that involves customers coming to your home office, you need to learn about having the appropriate insurance coverage.\n\nSole proprietor businesses are at particular risk, because your personal assets are fair game if someone files a lawsuit against you.\n\nThe best way to start a work from home business is to educate yourself.  Do not be in a rush.  If you need to make money sooner than later, work at a wage job, and start your home business part time, so you have cash flow while building your business.
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Do you have any friend that would help you out with a carwash?  If you have a carwash, make up a short letter about what you are trying to do and pass that out to people when they park their car for the carwash.  Then collect the money afterwords and you may get more if people support what you are trying to do.\n\nWriting letters to business is a good idea also.\n\nYou could also hold a cardboard sign at the nearest stoplight and beg.   Write something like "Model in Need of Cash".  Then again, that may not be a hot idea.
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The best routes to take are to research the process of starting a business as well as the industry you're interested in.\n\nI recommend checking out the SBA, Entrepreneur, The Start Up Journal & Nolo. All 4 are great informational resources for the new/small business owner. I posted links for you in the source box.\n\nAssociations may be a good avenue to explore as well. These organizations will address many of the thoughts, questions and concerns you'll inevitably have as well as many you haven't anticipated yet. See the source box for some relevant links. \n\nResearch, research, research – this cannot be stressed enough. Read as much as you can about the industry. Here are some book titles that are relevant:\n\n* Running Your Own Boarding Kennels by David Cavill\n* Building, Buying and Operating a Boarding Kennel by James Krack \n* Kennel Building and Management (Howell Reference Books) by Mario Migliorini\n* The Business Guide to Pet Grooming by Sam Kohl\n* From Problems to Profits: The Madson Management System for Pet Grooming Businesses by Madeline Bright Ogle\n\nThere are plenty of free informational resources out there. Check the source box for links to articles.\n\nHope that helps! I wish you much success & happiness in all your ventures!
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Big question.  Many answers that depend on your situation. \n \n1.  Buy a salon & equipment that is already open and running.\n2.  Start from scratch to find space, equipment, etc.\n3.  But rememeber, unless you have customers already, opening a salon will not bring you enough business in the beginning, but add financial burden.\n\nMy suggestion is:  Work for a salon until you have contacts and loyal clients, AND enough money to pay bills and stay open for 6 months.\n\nAfter my sister worked and earned a loyal customer base, she bought equipment and put her salon in her home.  But without loyal clients, nothing works.
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start your own business...
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The best routes to take are to research the process of starting a business as well as the industry you're interested in.\n\nI recommend checking out the SBA, Entrepreneur, The Start Up Journal & Nolo. All 4 are great informational resources for the new/small business owner. I posted links for you in the source box.\n\nAssociations may be a good avenue to explore as well. These organizations will address many of the thoughts, questions and concerns you'll inevitably have as well as many you haven't anticipated yet. See the source box for some relevant links. \n\nResearch, research, research – this cannot be stressed enough. Read as much as you can about the industry. Here are some book titles that are relevant:\n\n* Spa Business Strategies: A Plan for Success by Janet M. D'Angelo\n* SalonOvations' Day Spa Operations (S Business Series) by Erica Miller\n* Start Your Own Hair Salon and Day Spa by Eileen Figure Sandlin\n* 101 Media and Marketing Tips for Salon Owners, Stylists and Managers by Nanette Miner\n\nThere are plenty of free informational resources out there. Check the source box for links to articles.\n\nHope that helps! I wish you much success & happiness in all your ventures!
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The best business will depend on what you want, how you define to be interesting. A person may consider a pet sitting business to be the most exciting work in the world, while another person would rather watch TV than take care of dogs. Or someone may want to clean other people's houses; but if the thought of cleaning your own room makes you sick, then cleaning houses is not for you.\n\nThe key is to determine what your interests are, what you want to do, what is suitable for your lifestyle and your overall goals, and what can fit with your resources.\n\nDan Ramsey in his book "101 Best Home Businesses" has a chapter on how to find YOUR best home business. He suggests these 10 steps:\n\n1. List 5 things you do best\n2. List how others would benefit from what you do best\n3. Find out how to give people what they want\n4. Learn the value of your services to others\n5. Find out who else offers similar services\n6. Learn from the successes of others\n7. Learn from the failures of others\n8. Plan your own success\n9. Make low cost mistakes\n10. Enjoy what you do and how you do it\n\nHe then made suggestions on the best home businesses according to type. Here are a few of them:\n\nBest Businesses Using Craft or Physical Skills\n- antique restoration\n- auto detail service\n- carpet cleaning business\n- errand/delivery service\n- housecleaning business\n\nBest Service Businesses \n- bed and breakfast operator\n- caregiver\n- catering service\n- senior day care center\n- tutoring service\n\nBest Professional Businesses\n- desktop publisher\n- magazine writer\n- import/export service\n- income tax preparation service\n- event planner\n\nSome other home business ideas:\n\nTop 10 Home Businesses with Rapid Break-Even Time http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol33/breakeven.htm\n10 Profitable “Go-Out" Home Businesses http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol31/goout.htm\nLow Cost Startup Businesses http://www.entrepreneur.com/lowcostbusinesses/0,6617,,00.html\n\nYou can also check out the following books:\n\nTurn Your Talents into Profits: 100+ Terrific Ideas for Starting Your Own Home-Based Microbusiness \n The Best Home Businesses for the 21st Century \n 121 Internet Businesses You Can Start from Home \n The Best Internet Businesses You Can Start \n 101 Ways to Make Money at Home
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You will have to have some yardworking equipment, start off small.  Push lawnmower, string trimmer if possible, and a blower.  A broom will work in place of a blower if necessary.\nIf you want to keep your startup costs down, aquire used equipment from pawn shops and/or yard sales. Work you way up to equipment that will help you work faster, with better results.  But unless you have several thousand dollars into it from the beginning, you'll need to start small.\n\nStart small, work your way up.  Use a portion of your earnings to buy better equipment. Let your good work build your business. Let customers brag about your work to their friends and aquaintences.  One of the best things about yardwork is your "business card" is in front of every house you do.  It is also one of the worst things, if your performance is bad.\n\nMost people want to get rich quick, not willing to do the work necessary to build a long lasting business. HONESTY with ALL the people you deal with, customers, suppliers, accountant, and especially yourself. This is the ONLY way to build a longlasting, profitable business.  Take pride in your work, knowing that a customer can go elsewhere to get their yard done.  Admit your mistakes, take responsibility for them and you'll see profit down the road.
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One good way is to print out flyers and take them to potential clients where they work and/or live.  Identify exactly what you have to offer and perhaps even provide a discount for the first cleaning.\n\nIt works for many businesses.
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With regards to starting a spa maintenance/cleaning business You may want to read the following articles:\n\nhttp://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol95/janitorial.htm\nhttp://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0NTB/is_15_42/ai_105917188\n\nYou may also get ideas from this list of books on a cleaning business:\n\nhttp://www.powerhomebiz.com/bookstore/homecleaning.htm\n\nHere are some articles to help you decide on your business name. One thing to consider is to check whether the business name is not yet being used by another company in your state\n\nWhat's in a Name? http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol3/name.htm\nGetting Your Business Name Right http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol109/name.htm
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The best routes to take are to research the process of starting a business as well as the industry you're interested in.\n\nI recommend checking out the SBA, Entrepreneur, The Start Up Journal & Nolo. All 4 are great informational resources for the new/small business owner. I posted links for you in the source box.\n\nAssociations may be a good avenue to explore as well. These organizations will address many of the thoughts, questions and concerns you'll inevitably have as well as many you haven't anticipated yet. See the source box for some relevant links. \n\nResearch, research, research – this cannot be stressed enough. Read as much as you can about the industry. Here are some book titles that are relevant:\n\n* How to Setup and Operate a Successful Nightclub: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Running a Profitable Club Operation by Robert Smith\n* Bar and Club Design by Bethan Ryder\n\nI also posted links to some free articles in the source box.\n \nHope that helps! I wish you much success & happiness in all your ventures!
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First of all stay in college and get your degree. If you have a couple of hours at night, you can start a cleaning service. Maybe clean dorm rooms, small offices and the like. I started my own cleaning service a couple of years ago and to give you an idea of how much you can make you can visit my website listed below. Try to find a small office, one that you could clean in an hour. You could make and easy $180 to $250 per month working only 1 hour per week. Now if you have already taken your college math, you don't need a calculator to see the potential.