How To Start Or Grow Your Cleaning Business The Fastest Way To Make $1000 A Week

By Chris Smith

If you're struggling to make money... Starting or growing your cleaning business is easier and quicker than you may think. Inside you will find the fastest formula for making $1,000 or more a week, professional sales tactics, marketing skills for finding your first customer and the BEST customers, checklists for initial walk throughs, bidding the job strategies, first time cleaning options, avoid undercharging, earning quick referrals without advertising, huge list of extras that are not included in regular cleanings, and all the customer service training you need to stay your customer's favorite, ensuring they only want you over your competition.

 

Other similar temporary income streams are added to help fill in the financial gaps if you are just starting a business until you build a full schedule of regular repeat customers. There are simple lists to follow, which are also perfect for training subcontractors once you acquire more jobs than you can handle alone, with bonuses included at the end for avoiding customer complaints and eventually consider retirement.

 

Regardless of a cleaning business being the easiest and cheapest business to start, cleaning is hard. If you are cleaning two to three homes or offices a day, included precautions should be taken to protect your health. Real life examples are included to avoid mishaps.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Chris Smith
• Release date: Sep 6, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201191245

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The Formula To Reach $1,000.00 A Week Of Income

I FIRST WANT TO EXPLAIN the $1,000 a week capability, to show you how attainable it is and how quickly you can reach this goal.

Four- or Five-Day Work Week

If you want to work four days a week, divide $1,000 by 4 days. I always took Mondays off to pay bills, etc. while everyone was at school and work, giving myself a day to focus. However, if you prefer a 5-day work week, see the next formula below.

$1,000 divided by 4 = $250

So, if you plan to work 4 days, this is $250, the average amount you will need to earn a day to earn $1,000 a week. You can do this with 2 or 3 houses a day.

$250 divided by 2 jobs = $125 average per job

$250 divided by 3 jobs = $83 average per job

Do you now see how possible it is to make this in a day? You only need to find the jobs, which we will discuss later. Cleaning isn’t easy, and if you bid the jobs correctly and constantly ask for referrals, weeding out the truly hard ones, you can consider hiring someone in just a few short months or right from the beginning if you can afford it. You possibly could afford to pay someone $35 -$40 or more on a $125 house. If you do the kitchens and bathrooms while they dust and do floors, you both could finish in an hour or hour and a half. Even if it takes you two hours while they’re training, they’re still making $17.50 - $20 an hour, plus riding time. You can find excellent help for pay like this. They would have to be super good at their job to accomplish this, without overlooking any areas and without causing mishaps. It’s best if they ride with you to the jobs, to train while you’re driving, discussing do’s and don’ts, to give the home or office the best appearance and cleaning, and cut down on time. You do not want to appear as if you’re training on the job, this will worry customers, raise questions, and have them checking behind you with a magnifying glass, so riding time is the best time to discuss what is and isn’t acceptable from you and your helper.

Let’s say you’re willing to work 5 days a week to lessen the physical requirements on your body.

$1,000 divided by 5 days = $200

If you plan to work 5 days, this is $200, the average amount you will need to earn a day to earn $1,000 a week. You can also do this with 2 or 3 houses a day.

$200 divided by 2 jobs = $100 average per job

$200 divided by 3 = $67 average per job

This gives you an idea of how quickly you can earn $1,000 or more a week. It would have to be a super small house or office to entice me to bid $67. I would have to be able to thoroughly clean it in 45 minutes to an hour max. You wouldn’t be truly making $67 an hour when you have the costs of supplies, including vacuums, vehicle fuel, vehicle maintenance, insurance, phone bill, other bills, etc. You should consider your costs. The rest of the money left over after those business needs will be your paycheck, which covers your home bills, groceries, entertainment, and savings, just like any paycheck would. You went from employee to business owner, so now you have overhead to consider, even in a service-based job. However, 3 jobs a day at $67 will still bring you $200 a day. It should take a total of 3 hours of cleaning time if you’re working alone, plus driving time.

Driving Time

IN A NORMAL-SIZED CITY, 15-25 minutes to get to each job x 3 = roughly an hour or so of driving time, on top of the cleaning time, totaling an average of 4 to 4 ½ hours to make $200. Give yourself an extra hour for handling traffic, lunch, or customers if you’d like. Even 5 or 6 hours is a great day for making $200.

If possible, reach out to customers that live in golf communities or neighborhoods, or deep in the historic district, new subdivisions, or lakeside homes. This will enable you to make more money with the least number of jobs, due to the size of the homes. You can potentially have 3 houses a day at roughly $100 each. I say roughly because more than likely, they won’t all be exactly $100. You could bid 3 houses somewhere around $85, $90, and $125, totaling $300, or you could book 2 higher-priced jobs and 1 lower-priced job. I will show you how to reach these homeowners and/or offices in the business locations they frequent.

Believe it or not, small spaces do not mean they are always cheaper, easier, or quicker to clean. You have less room to move around freely, while possibly being surrounding by breakable whatnots, which drastically slows down your performance. You’ll need to pay better attention to elbows keeping them closer to your side, broom handles that can bump walls, vases, or picture frames, vacuum hoses or cords that can get caught or hung up, your face when bending over or turning around, people or pets getting in the way, and there are numerous other situations to consider. Smaller could mean more clutter due to less storage, and a high amount of clutter equals more cleaning. These are some of the things you want to consider when bidding on jobs, and we will discuss this in better detail later.

Paying To Keep Good Help

MANY ARE HESITANT TO hire help, especially in the beginning if you are depending on the income to feed your family. I’d like to go ahead and give you the breakdown of how simple it is to figure up how to keep good help in case you’re considering this option. In hindsight, I feel our long-term physical health should be a priority and if you value your precious retirement years physically, it would be a tremendous benefit to pay someone to help you. Like any physical labor job, long-term cleaning takes stamina and strength to endure. Jobs are much easier when the workload is shared, even if part-time.

If you paid a helper a third of the $200 we discussed earlier at $67, they would be earning $16.75 an hour for 4 hours if you count driving time, or $22.34 an hour for 3 hours of cleaning if you don’t pay for the driving time.  Either way, it totals the same amount. That’s good money for a helper. I believe in paying your helpers more than minimum wage because you get what you pay for, and people stay where they’re happy. I hope you eventually find the perfect helper and will increase their payments over time, giving them a reason to stay and show loyalty.

If you get the jobs up to earning an average of $300 a day, totaling an average of $1,500 a week, you could pay your helper $85 - $100 a day, totaling $425 - $500 a week. I would base it on if they’re working part-time or full-time. Try to put yourselves in their shoes, to determine how much income you would require to stay, as a helper to someone. Paying a helper $500, still leaves you earning $1,000 a week. Hiring help will greatly reduce wear and tear on your body, hopefully avoiding body pains or stiffness as you age.

If you’re wondering why I don’t recommend splitting the job price in half with your helper, there are numerous reasons. You’re supplying the cost and shopping for the supplies and equipment, it’s your vehicle fuel, maintenance, and depreciation, it was your hard-earned efforts at acquiring the customer through marketing and networking, you’re doing the scheduling – which takes true finesse due to locations, the time required on the job, and time slots available, you’re keeping up with the mileage and receipts, the pay and hours for the 1099’s, it’s your reputation, and your business. All they should worry about is doing a great job, protecting their body, protecting the customers’ items, and where,