2022 Edition
by Robin West Davis (Author)
Did you know that if you clean just two houses a day – 5 days a
week, you could make $3,700- $5000 a month? Don’t believe me? Let’s do
the math. The average house cleaning price today is between $90 to $150.
Let’s go with the average of the two $120. Now 2 houses a day means
$240 a day X 5 days a week =$1200 weekly X 4.2(weeks in a month) =
$5040! Simple.
Average commercial(office/retail) cleaning price is between $220 to $450 X 2 a day = $440 to $900 a day!
I
started cleaning houses about 12 years ago, so I’ve been in the game a
while. But if you had asked me 13 years ago what I would be doing with
my life at this age, I would not have said this at all.
I did all
the ‘right’ things. I went to college, got my 4-year degree, got
married, bought a house, and worked in an office. My husband and I made a
nice little income together, we had a nest egg, and I thought this was
the way my life was supposed to go.
But I was exhausted, and not
just physically. Sitting at a desk, typing at a keyboard all day, was
hard. I was having back pains (I wasn’t even 30 when I first started
experiencing them!), my wrists hurt at the end of the day, I had
constant headaches from the stress of meeting various deadlines and
sales quotas every week.
Mental stress and anxiety can make life really miserable.
The
weekends weren’t fun anymore. Instead, they were just days to sleep and
feel tired and dread Monday, when it would all start again. Work
drained me mentally so much it didn’t even feel like ‘rest.’ I felt
trapped and exhausted and overwhelmed by it all because, at the end of
the day, I was stuck with the idea that it wasn’t fair. I wasn’t
supposed to feel like this because I did everything right, and I was
still absolutely miserable and emotionally struggling.
I was
terrified to pitch my idea of quitting my job to do this to my husband,
but he was so supportive, and we worked out a financial plan that made
sense. If my business weren’t income positive in six months, I would go
back to the “real world” and get a “real job.”
I was making money
my first month. Not a ton, at first – it took a while to build up a
reputation, to build clients, and to really work out the kinks of
running a business. But at six months, there were zero talks of me
‘going back’ anywhere. I was where I belonged, and I was happy.
Whether
you’re looking for extra money, a side hustle that accommodates your
life, or you’re like I was and want to escape a job, and a life that
makes you unhappy, starting a cleaning business can be your way there.
There
are no shortcuts to success, of course. You need to go into every
single job and dedicate yourself to it, providing the best service that
you can to your clients. In exchange, of course, you have not just a new
job, but a new business, helping people and making a real impact in
their lives – while making real, actual money for you and your family.
- Why Cleaning Business?
- The Legalities of Starting Your Business
- Business Banking and Bonding
- What is Branding? Does it Matter?
- What is Branding, anyway?
- Do I Need a Business Plan?
- Building Your Home Office
- Policies, Rules, and Regulations
- Choosing Your Business Model
- The Tools of the Trade
- Marketing Basics for Newbies
- Let’s Get That Money: Strategies for Making Real Money
- The Best Business Practices of a Cleaner
★Best Kept Secret: Commercial cleaning is much easier with better pay than house cleaning, just trust me on this.
Lastly,
I talked about how and when to expand your business. Not everyone wants
to grow, but there are some who want to scale their business and make
it big, really big. The sky is the limit here. With the right commercial
contracts, you can make this a million-dollar business.
