A cleaning business is quite a
profitable business nowadays. Opportunity of the
times has presented itself to pave the way for this
kind of business. With most household couples
handling office jobs it leaves less time for the
family and the home to balance off the day.
A cleaning business can start from your own home and
choose clients that are within close proximity of
your area first. Once you have established yourself
then you can consider expanding your line of
services. There are only a few requirements and
permits that you will need to start your business
and you will be under the category of a contractor.
You can try to showcase your abilities by doing a
model home for free. This will prove to be a better
example for your future clients rather than pay for
an advertisement.
A cleaning business has mainly two markets: the
residential and commercial market. The residential
market of course covers households, and can also
service small offices or establishments within the
area. Commercial markets would include large
offices, commercial buildings and other public
places.
A residential business mainly offers a maid service,
which offers dusting and wiping of fixtures and top
surfaces such as tables, shelves and counters,
vacuum and mopping of floors, carpets and stairs for
the rooms, scrubbing of showers, sinks and toilet
bowls, cleaning of mirrors and other surfaces inside
the bathroom and taking care of stuff in the kitchen
such as the stove, grill, sink, microwave, pots and
pans. Basic and custom cleaning plans can be made to
service an individual household need.
Commercial businesses require mostly a janitorial
service, which functions mainly like a maid service
with a much larger area of activity. Operating hours
is also the difference between the maid and the
janitorial service. A maid service operates during
the normal hours of the day while janitorial
services start when the normal work traffic of the
client contracting them stops. This is because they
don’t want the cleaning to interfere with the daily
operations of the workplace.
Some businesses choose to remain and specialize on
an individual market but both can actually be
operated under one roof. The key is having to select
the proper staff to help you out with it. You would
want to choose hardworking, determined, goal
oriented and honest individuals. Remember that the
clients will be allowing you to enter their premises
and be around their personal belongings.
As you establish yourself into the market you may
choose to add services to your list such as rug and
carpet cleaning, which handles deep down dirt,
stains and restoration, drape and curtain cleaning
and perhaps pool cleaning. This all depends on the
type of neighborhood, location and market niche that
you have. Some clients may also chose to go the
extra dollar for you to apply a high quality surface
protectant to shelves, tables and counter tops or a
flame retardant to fabric covered chairs and sofas
or to curtains and drapes.
