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Before I give you some tips on how to start your own house cleaning business, let’s think about why you might want to do this. It’s really quite a good money-making opportunity for a simple reason: most people dislike cleaning house. They like the results but not the work.

But as everyone knows, houses need cleaning on a regular basis. They just get dirtier each day till something is done. So despite economic woes or crazy schedules, people need to do something about the house, at least sometimes!

Since they aren’t keen on cleaning house, many people will be interested in hiring you. Start your own housekeeping business, do the work of getting started, and you can gradually get pretty much all the work you can handle. Some clients may be weekly, while others could be biweekly or just now and then. You can tell everyone what days you are willing to work also.

Here are some tips on what to do:

1. You may have all the cleaning supplies you will need already, but if not, be frugal in how much you spend on equipment until you get the business off the ground.

2. As a trade for testimonials, clean a few houses of friends at no cost to them. You will use their written words and their names (with their okay) in advertising but there is an interesting other benefit in doing this step. It gives you a chance to be sure that starting your own cleaning business is what you want to do.

This is important, so I will explain a bit more. You may find that you feel a real satisfaction in producing a nice clean house, but you might discover that you really can’t stand to wash out other people’s toilets, to take what might be the worst of it! Naturally you don’t have to love it all, but this is a “moment of truth” about whether this work is a good match for your personality. If you hate it, you are not likely to be a success.

3. Using a word processing program, make and print out some flyers. If you can get some colored paper for them, they will stand out better. Things to put on the flyer include your name or business name, your phone and maybe your email, what if anything you specialize in cleaning, and those testimonials, or at least their best parts. Give your rates, and before you decide on them, find out what the going rates are locally. Post the flyers on bulletin boards and wherever else you think of.

4. If you will be required to have a business license, get it. Find out if there are other requirements and if so, do them. This can sound daunting but it is usually pretty easy.

5. People generally realize that they need to log income and expenses for eventual income tax purposes, but there is another good reason to get a notebook and write it all down. This will show you how much profit you are actually making.

There is a lot more to say about how to start your own house cleaning business, so do take a look at my website!

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