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Starting Your Own Cleaning Business – Tips To Keep In Mind  

Article by Carolyn Anderson

Starting your own cleaning business can be a great moneymaking opportunity for anyone. At least, if you don’t hate cleaning the house or you love organizing and things such as that, you can put up your own cleaning business to make other people’s homes clean and nicer to live.

Like many other businesses though, you have to plan your business carefully before getting too excited in getting clients and advertising your business. Of course, a well-planned business would most likely succeed, so don’t just rely on luck. Plan everything carefully so you won’t just be wasting time and money as well.

1. Learn everything you can about the cleaning business. Knowledge and information is important in putting up a business. Make sure also that you are updated on what is the latest when it comes to the cleaning services provided to homes and to commercial offices.

2. Determine what type of services you are willing to offer. In starting your own cleaning business, you have to define the specific services you offer. Some cleaning businesses are only specialized to window cleaning or carpet cleaning, so decide on that for your business.

3. Set your business goals and objectives. Make your business plan. It is important that you set out your plan and specific objectives of your business before starting. No matter how small is your business, having a good business plan will guide you and give direction to your business.

4. Work on earning trust from your clients, especially the first few clients you will have. One challenge in starting your own cleaning business is getting your first clients. Clients would always want to know how long have you been in the business and they would like to see your track record when it comes to your services, and of course, people don’t just trust anybody to clean their homes, so work on establishing a good record with your services. Keep in mind always to please your customer in every cleaning service you provide them.

5. Plan and decide on your start-up costs. You have to manage your initial money capital wisely. Decide on the equipment to purchase, the people to hire, and other expenses like costs in getting a business license. Keep in mind that in any business, small or big, you will not be able to get that profit you want in the first year of your business. So you have to be determined to work on building that track record and widening your clientele in the first few years of your business.

Start with these few tips in starting your own cleaning business, but there are a lot to learn, so go ahead and find good resources that you can use to help you set up your business. Also remember to improve your services, find marketing promotions and always aim to give the best service your client can get from your cleaning services. Invest good reputation for repeat customers especially that house cleaning is a regular service they would want to avail.

About the Author

Carolyn Anderson makes money out of her hobbies. If you want to put up a cleaning business, check out this guide to cleaning business. Also check out Cash For Cleanouts, if you want to make money by cleaning foreclosed homes.Distributed by ContentCrooner.com

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Mind The Gap Between Business Strategy & Operational Change

Anyone who’s been on London’s Underground will have heard the world famous warning for passengers. “Mind the Gap” was introduced in 1969 to warn passengers about the space between the train carriage and the platform.  Just like passengers in a hurry or who think they know best run the risk of falling between the two, businesses need to maintain conscious awareness of the very real and tangible gap existing between their strategy and desire to achieve effective operational change.

Business Strategies are specific when it comes to the organisation’s mission, vision and objectives; Direction is clear, ROI specified, and growth expectations and market share targets listed to support both. Now the challenge starts. This beautifully constructed well thought out strategy must be turned into operational reality and if the strategy is one that sees the business moving through previously uncharted waters, there will be the inevitable changes along the way to operational practises.

In order to successfully translate the strategy, disseminate it through to operations and minimise the pain experienced during times of change, leadership is paramount. In his book “High Flyers – Developing the next generation of leaders”, Morgan W. McCall, Jr talks about linking business strategy and executive development. He suggests an “organisations ability to achieve strategic objectives will depend in large part on the leadership ability of executive leaders.” This makes perfect sense but what makes an effective leader and how can they reduce this very real gap?

Really good quality effective leaders are generally recognised as those who have developed a high degree of emotional intelligence.  William Tate references emotional intelligence in his book “The Search for Leadership – An Organisational Perspective” when he discusses the two halves of organisation life.  I’ve referred to William Tate in previous posts and will continue to do so because I see how his ‘Systems Thinking’ approach will transform leadership within organisations. His discussion about the two halves of organisation life sees him refer to what he calls the rational half and the non-rational half. The rational side holds all those elements we fully expect to be associated with a business and its strategy: Strategic plans, Directives, Job Titles, Policies, Organisation Charts, etc. These are if you like, tangible things you can physically touch or at least see pinned up on a wall somewhere; they are documents and diagrams that are reference points along with targets that can be measured as time progresses. Then there’s the non-rational half, which is where I firmly believe much more can be achieved at a much faster rate, particularly during times of change. These non-rational factors form the heart of an organisation are where the gold nuggets are to be found: trust, friendship, power, culture, ambition, fears and insecurities, the corridor conversation and grapevine etc.

These non-rational factors are more implicit and concern the “who” rather than the “how”. It’s these things that effective leaders really understand and act upon. They are tuned-in to emotions, feelings, behaviours and motivations in both themselves and those around them. They can answer the ‘what’s in it for me’ question, which is just one of many employees ask when they’re expected to buy-in to the strategy, work for the good of the company and achieve the objectives set to maximise the ROI to ultimately make the shareholders or investors happy.

So here’s my call to action for you. Pull out that strategy and take another look at it. Don’t just look at the how, put effort into considering the who and consider all the non-rational factors as it’s these that will play a far larger part in delivering a well defined strategy. Only once they are understood will you have the solid foundation to be more effective in closing the gap.

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What does it take to build a successful business? Every day, new business ventures are started all over the world, but we all know, 99% of all businesses started fail in the first ten years. Now if the hope and dream of every entrepreneur is to build a successful business and the failure rate of businesses is as high as 99%. Then what is the missing link?

As a seasoned entrepreneur and successful business owner, this statistics really got me thinking, so I decided to consult my mentors and they gave me the following business tips which I am going to share with you. Below are the business tips and advice:

1) Life is a journey, not a destination. So also is business, your objectives must keep moving. – Thomas.J.Burrell.

2) Individuals don’t win in business, teams do. – Sam Walton.

3) Success in Business is all about creating value. – Candice Carpenter

4) To build a successful business, you must first surmount the business challenges spiritually, for the spiritual controls the physical and no business has ever stood the test of time without the entrepreneurial spirit. – Ajaero Tony Martins.

5) A successful business is created before there is a business. – Rich Dad

6) Business is like oil, it will not mix with anything but business. – J.Paul. Getty

7) Courteous treatment will make a customer a walking advertisement. – J.C. Penny

Being an entrepreneur, I have come to realize that all successful businesses are powered by three fundamentals. One is the cashflow, two is the team and finally the mission. – Ajaero Tony Martins.

9) We have got to start grooming people to own businesses. That is only way to keep the money in the community and provide jobs for the people. – Spike Lee.

10) The bottom line is that business is going to change in the next ten years that it has in the last fifty years. – Bill.W.Gates.

11) Your competitor in business can be a good corporate leverage for your business or an unrelenting enemy out to see your extinction. It all depends on what you want them to be. – Ajaero Tony Martins

12) The ability to sell is the number one skill to build a successful business. – Rich Dad

13) Accounting is the language of business. – Warren Buffet.

14) Cashflow is the life blood of business – Ajaero Tony Martins

15) There are three necessities to putting a business deal together.One is finding the right opportunity, two is finding the right team and three is finding the money. – Anonymous

16) Starting a business is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute. In mid air the entrepreneur begins building a parachute and hope it opens before hitting the ground. – Rich Dad.

17) In the business world, the rear view mirror is always clearer than the wind shield. – Warren Buffet.

18) Anybody can cut price, but it takes brain to produce a better article. – Philip.D.Armour

19) Advertising is the mouth piece of business. – James.R.Adams

20) Business is like a wheel barrow, nothing ever happens until you start pushing. – Robert Kiyosaki.

This is all I can share for now,by all means apply this business tips I have shared and I will see you at the top.