Start Your Own Business for Less Than $100 in Eight Easy Steps
Want to be your own boss? Earn extra money? Not qualified for todays jobs? Do you own a vaccuum and your own car?
If you have a vacuum and your own car – you can start your own business for under $100 ~ Today!
There are some jobs which are economy proof. House cleaning is one of them. Right now you might be thinking that no one has money to pay for house cleaning, right? Wrong! The wealthier people still pay for their house to be cleaned. With tighter alien laws in place these people need you. Marry maids, Kelly services, and other cleaning services cost a fortune. And these people still pay for it!
However, with the current economy – even the wealthy are looking to save money! This is where you come in. They are not going to lower their pride and wash their own floors — they will pay you to do it — and save.
You make a buck ~ they save a buck!
***Make sure to research going prices for cleaning services, then make your price well below that. To begin a business among competitors you must be lower priced or you will not get a client. ***
But where do you start?
Step One
First make sure you have all the cleaners you think you will need, all the supplies (broom, mop, bucket, etc.) Most of this can be used right from your home to start – just don’t tell them that. Next you will need to start with your vacuum (or you will have to buy one making starting price higher). Of course you will need your own car. No one wants to let a cleaner into their home who got out of mom’s car. It might look like a ruse. Make sure you shine your car up! Do not pull up to a wealthy house in a broken down hooptie. Make sure you detail your car too. Cleaners must have clean cars!!!
Step Two
Go to print vista.com and order your 250 free business cards now! (shipping – only $10) or make your own. Go to local sign shop and price up simple magnetic decal for car door and self stick decal for car window. You can come back and purchase these items when you are sure this business is going to work for you. Meaning that you have what it takes to be a cleaner and follow orders.
Step Three
Call a Friend or family member who knows someone wealthy. (We all know people who know people.) Call local church and meet with pastor – give him your number (or card if you have then already). Post bulletin about your cleaning business at nearby store.
Step Four
Take first person to bite your hook. Call them, speak professionally. Tell them you have experience in cleaning houses for (as many years as you have been cleaning your house). Your reference letters (if needed) can be from friends, relatives, and neighbors who’ve seen your clean house. Go to meet them. Listen to them, do not talk too much. Do not accept a job you do not know how to do. Make appointment for whenever it is convenient for them – not you. They are your boss now, even though you are your own boss, they pay you.
Step Five
Pass out business cards in wealthy areas. (Market places, leave some in doctors offices, the local gyms, any where high profile where you can leave the cards or rub some elbows.)
Step Six
Do a good job. Soon you will have a few clients once word of mouth gets around that you do good work and are trust worthy.
Step Seven
Buy a business license. As soon as you have 5 regular customers or so, go to the local office for business licenses and buy a fictitious name license. The cost is typically $15. You need one of these to legally have a business.
Step Eight
Save your profits and buy a cheap used van – say $800. Transfer decals to the van, or buy 2 more and leave them on both vehicles. After your clientele numbers climb into the “I can’t do it all” area – hire a helper. A part time helper can be the teenage neighbor girl , your own teen, or a trusty adult who is not working. You can pay them $5 per hour or whatever you two decide on.
Common mistakes NOT to make
1) Do not put sign on bulletin in your neighborhood - Put them up in wealthy neighborhood. 2) Do not write sign on binder paper - Type up nice sign on computer stationary – make it elegant. 3) Do not dress in your house cleaning clothes - wealthy people think your nice outfit is your cleaning clothes. 4) Do not dress up – you are there to get dirty after all - regular clean jeans and t-shirt are ok. 5) Do not bring kids or ask to bring kids – this is a business not day care.
4 Comments
Is this information coming from personal experience? The article title is misleading, in that you should be talking about starting any kind of business, but you’re specifically talking about a cleaning business. You should have added the word “cleaning” to the title.
I actually want to set up a business soon enough and this might be giving a few ideas. Storm Jackson is right in a way but I’m sure you could use some of the tips from the cleaning business to other business too like the business cards one. Some good ideas.
Great post! It is a little miss leading, but good information. I am passing this along to my sister.
Sorry to be missleading. And yes, this is from personal experience, so I know it works. When I started my business 12 years ago, it only cost about $75 to start out. But if you use your own cleaning products to start out, that can save at least $20, maybe more. My mom and I started this together, she kept it up after I tired of it. I don’t really like cleaning, I’m not much of an indoor girl. But I’d do it agian if I needed a job and could find one.