Office Cleaning Home Based Business
Is Big Business!

Start your home based business in the cleaning industry, the cleaning industry in general, generates over 35 billion dollars every year in the United States alone and you can have your share of this growing business.

This guide describes practical, proven methods. It will provide you with the necessary guidance and know how that will help you to obtain your own home based business office cleaning accounts and the financial gain that comes from it.

Cleaning offices is big business and it is a recession proof business. Many people have used the information from this guide to get their own cleaning home based business started.

Cleaning offices and maintaining their appearance is a service business like none other. I know of no other business where customers will pay you hundreds to thousands of dollars every month, for just a few hours of work.

Will you really earn yourself $30 to $40 dollars an hour or more for cleaning offices? The answer is yes, and I'm going to explain to you exactly how to get started with this home based business plan in this guide.

Cleaning is big business! The cleaning industry generates over 35 billion dollars every year in the United States alone and you can get your share of this growing business. From all the different types of cleaning services out there, office cleaning is the icing on the cake.

The U.S. Department of Commerce reported that over 11 billion dollars was spent last year, specifically on commercial cleaning services and the cleaning service business is increasing every year. Office cleaning or janitorial service, is a very profitable business service.

This is a recession proof service and you now have the information you need to profit from it. Within a few miles of your home, there are tons of monthly office cleaning contracts waiting to be had.

There are some large franchise companies in the janitorial business. The people who run these companies are just like you. They've just been in the business longer and have more employees and customers than you do.

Most people in the office cleaning business started out as a little mom and pop home based business, working out of their car. Most of them do a much better job then the larger cleaning companies and they get paid just as much money for doing it. In fact is, you have a big advantage over the larger cleaning companies.

When you're just getting started with your home based business, you will be on the job supervising the cleaning job. A smaller cleaning company can do a much better job than a larger cleaning company. Many office managers understand this and are very likely to hire your cleaning service instead of a larger company for this reason.

There is a big miss understanding that a lot of people have about the office cleaning business. Janitorial work in general, is thought of as a low paying dead end job. You don't have to be a college graduate to empty trash cans and most employees of cleaning services are paid a low hourly wage.

In contrast, the owner of the cleaning service, the one who put in the bid and got the account is getting paid a fixed amount of money every month. This steady income usually turns into around $40 dollars per cleaning, for an average of one hour of work. You are not some kind of low, hourly paid janitor. When you own your home based business cleaning service company, you are considered to be a cleaning contractor.

There is no special license that you will need. A cleaning contractor is a job title for people who own their home based business cleaning service. If you have someone work for you and help you clean the office, then you will make a little less, but it's still a lot of money for up to a couple of hours of work for one office. There is a lot of work out there for anyone who wants to get it.

All things considered, office cleaning is a good repeat service business, people are makeing money from it and you can do it too. It's a profitable home based business to get into, even if you don't want to do it full-time. Most offices close around 5:00 PM. Then the cleaning can be done anytime after that.

If you have enough confidence in yourself to apply for a job working for someone else, then you have what it takes to get your own office cleaning home based business accounts that will earn you $40 dollars an hour or more.

A lot of the smaller offices that only want a cleaning service to come in and clean, once or twice a week can earn you around $400 dollars every single month! You obviously wouldn't need many of these jobs to be making a full-time income from part-time work.

A lot of the larger offices or office buildings, usually consist of different types of businesses or tenants under the same roof and they are usually handled by a property manager instead of an office manager. This type of account is normally cleaned Monday thru Friday evenings each week and typically pays from one to three thousand dollars a month or more.

The larger type of account is usually an office building consisting of two or more floors. It sounds like more work than it is. The amount of time it takes to actually do the routine office cleaning associated with the price range of $2000 dollars a month can easily be done by 2 people in 2 hours.

If you only had one of these 5 night a week accounts, it can instantly produce a $24,000 dollar a year income for you from only working part-time. Isn't that worth trying to get yourself started in your own home based business?

With only a couple of accounts which are cleaned 5 evenings each week, you and one other person, can realistically work only 1 or 2 hours each evening and bring in 1 or 2 thousand dollars every month!

So, whether it's a large 5 night a week account or a smaller account that only gets cleaned once or twice a week, either type of account is well worth trying to get because they can earn you $40 dollars an hour or more for your time and effort.

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A big benefit in this home based business, is that you can pretty much set your own schedule. There is no specific time that you have to start work and its up to you if you want to work on the weekends because all offices are generally closed then.

This guide provides valuable information for anyone who wants to start their own office cleaning home based business. For someone who already has an office cleaning business, this guide will help you to expand your business and become more professional.

You really can work part-time and make a full-time income. You can clean offices part-time and make a tremendous amount of extra income. All you need is one account to get started. You'll want all the small accounts you can get because they are very profitable. It all adds up fast. Just one customer will produce an immediate and ongoing monthly income for you.

Traditional advertising is not very effective and it is expensive. Use the material in this guide to get customers yourself. Now assuming that you have little or no money to spend for cleaning supplies and equipment, and you do not own a vacuum cleaner, used vacuum cleaners are cheap, you are still ready to get started. You don't need anything to place a bid, except the service agreement which is included in this guide.

Remember, you're not offering a product for sale, you are providing a service at a price that makes it well worth doing. Many people have started out using their own vehicle and $200 to $500 dollars for some equipment and supplies. I'll explain to you later, how to get started in your own home based business with no money at all.

It dosen't matter what kind of vehicle you have, thats not what they are going to be paying you for, so make it work. Put your cleaning supplies in the trunk of your car or get permission to leave your cleaning supplies at their location. There is usually some kind of janitorial closet at each location.

Get a monthly account lined up and then concern yourself with getting what you need for your home based business. In this way, you are risking nothing and you will know that you already have your first monthly paying customer.

Opportunities for you to get office cleaning account are literally everywhere! Every town is full of small offices and small one and two story office buildings that need to be cleaned on a regular basis. All you need to get started is one of them.

After you have submitted a few bids, using the material in this guide, your chances of landing your first account are very good. It's a numbers game and you control the numbers. At worst, you might submit 10 bids before you get one account, but it's still well worth it, because of the monthly repeat income.

You'll either get notified through the mail that you got the job or your phone will ring and one of the office managers you gave the service agreement too, would like for your home based business to start cleaning.

You'll always have a few days notice before starting the job. When you do get your first office to clean, they don't expect you to start on the day you put the bid in. Even if you are hired right away, you'll usually have at least a couple weeks notice before actually starting the job.

Always remember to get a copy of the key to the office and ask where they keep the toilet paper and paper towels for the restrooms. Also, write down an after hours phone number contact for that office in case you need it.

After you get your first home based business office cleaning account lined up, its time for you to decide whether you want to do the office cleaning by yourself or have someone helping you. In the beginning you should be on the job yourself, even if you have part-time people doing all the cleaning for you.

After all, that is your big selling point. The fact that you will be on the job. That is why you are in a position of doing a better job than a larger cleaning company. It's a good idea to have some business cards made up. You can get some simple looking black and white business cards made up for your home based business for around $20 dollars.

You'll need to think of a name to call your cleaning service. Before you ever use up that first batch of business cards, you may very well have all the business you want from using the material in this guide. So only order the minimum amount of inexpensive business cards.

You could just make use of your service agreement without having to purchase business cards. After all, the bids will have your company name and phone number on them, just like a business card does. You'll also want to get some simple white envelopes with your company name in the upper left corner.

With the 2 page service agreement in your guide, Someone will hire you and your home based business cleaning service and you'll make good money every month from only working part time. You'll also enjoy the independence of owning your own profitable home based business.

Your bid form is very professional in its appearance and detailed in it's description of what's going to be done. Office managers like it very much and they are impressed by it.

It indicates to them that you are professional and it gets their attention. But they will never see it, if you don't convince them to let you fill it out and give it to them. When getting started, your main objective is to submit bids, not just to hand out business cards.

Remember, you're not paying for an expensive yellow page ad in the phone book. You have not rented an office for your home based business because you don't need to.

So consider the inexpensive cost of your bids to be a minimal advertising expense and give them out freely to office managers who are willing to look at your free estimate. One thing leads to another. You have to put out a bid to get a job. You may get your first monthly customer after only putting out 4 bids.

Even if you put out 10 or more bids before you get your first customer, it will be well worth it, to get the monthly repeat business you'll receive from having only one office cleaning account.

Someone will hire you and your home based business cleaning service and you'll make good money every month from only working part-time. You'll also enjoy the independence of owning your own profitable home based business.

So have some copies made of the service agreement and sales letters with your company name on them. This is very inexpensive to have done. Especially if you can do it yourself on your own computer. All you need is a few of these service agreements.

By the time you submit first few bids, you may very well get your first account. You will at least have a lot more confidence in getting one and you will now have some experience in estimating a job and submitting a bid.

Before you start to obtain customers, you need to have an understanding of the nature of this home based business. In the next section, we get into the various ways, to "Proven Methods Of Getting Customers", but first, let's talk about the business in general.

The best way to get an account is the direct approach. This is the best way to get results. By going direct, I mean either calling to speak with an office manager on the phone or walking into the nearest office in person.

Either way, it costs you nothing at all and you have nothing to lose but a service agreement. You don't need to be a fast talking salesman. They are not hiring a salesman but a service, to clean their office properly.

If you try the direct approach of walking in off the street, just dress nice and convince the office manager to hire you and your cleaning service. Understand, that you accomplish this, by getting them to allow you to give them an estimate using your service agreement, That's your goal.

But as far as convincing them to hire you and your home based business cleaning service, it is totally how you present yourself. You would have to make the same kind of effort to get a job anywhere. After you get 1 to 4 customers, you may not even want any more.

Sometimes you meet an office manager who currently has a cleaning service that is doing a very good job for them. Usually thats not the case because there are more bad cleaning services out there than good ones. In any event, regarding the direct approach of contacting office managers, you would simply say the following:

"Hello, my name is Tom with ABC Cleaning. Could I speak with the office manager? I'd like to submit a competitive office cleaning bid for you to keep on file. If they are agreeable to it, then take a quick walk through the office and look at it. Walk around briefly, look in the restrooms and fill out the bid. You need to submit a bid as often as possible.

If they are not interested in looking at your home based business service agreement at the time, then they are probably a waste of time. Go to the next office manager. There are hundreds of offices around you. You only need a few of them to be making a good living from.

This is what is taking place, you are out to convince the office manager to let you and your home based cleaning service be the one to take care or their cleaning.

This individual office manager needs to be convinced that it is better to have your service clean it for them, rather than someone else. They need to be convinced that your service is better than the other cleaning companies who may have called on them in the past.

They are already convinced that it needs to be done and they are probably already paying every month to have it done. They usually have learned from experience, that they get what they pay for and they are already happy with the cleaning service that they have now or they are not happy with it.

Remember, you don't need to be the lowest bidder to get the job. They will hire you and your home based cleaning service, based on the quality of service they think they are going to get, not on a low priced bid.

Especially if they are not happy with the service they have now. If that is the case, then they are willing to pay more money for a better job. The decision to hire you and your home based cleaning service is made before you ever clean the office.

You can convince them to make this decision and hire you, simply by using your phone script, your sales letters, your service agreement and other various methods for getting customers, explained in your home based business guide.

So what is the difference between 2 people who both own a cleaning service and both do a good job of cleaning, yet one of them brings in $20 thousand dollars a year and the other one brings in $200 thousand dollars a year?

The difference, is in the ongoing marketing methods that is or is not taking place. In this type of service business, persistence wins, when all else fails. If you are after one monthly account or one hundred monthly accounts, the key to getting them is the same.

Research has proven that an advertising message must be repeated to be remembered. Don't expect your phone to ring off the wall from doing just one mailing. It just doesn't work that way. To promote your home based business by mail, you need to send a variety of mailings on a regular basis.

Your objective is to be in front of the customer when the need arises. To be in the right place at the right time. So, use a variety of direct mail promotion on a regular basis.

Start accumulating your own mailing list (one by one) of specific individuals in your area who employ a private cleaning service. You could collect the business cards of these office managers or you could simply hand write the information down on index cards. Either way would be just fine.

Start mailing to them every 2 or 3 months and personalize your mailing with an individuals name on it. Don't just mail something to ABC Office or to the attention of the office manager. You want to get your message to the decision maker, so be sure and write down the correct persons name on the office business card or on your card.

This direct mailing method is effective and very economical compared to other forms of advertising. Your advertising dollars for your home based business are well spent when you deal direct. Office cleaning accounts are acquired one at a time, so stick with it. Persistence is the key to success.

This is an excellent way of getting started in this home based business. You could contact some of the larger more established cleaning companies in your area about doing sub contract work for them. Offer to take over the cleaning of one or more of their monthly accounts for them.

You will make less money than you would if it were your own account but many large cleaning companies do this sub contract arrangement because they are simply too busy. Quite often they will pay a sub contractor to take over an account rather than hire another part time employee.

Explain to them that you are just getting started with your home based business and have a business card ready to give them. It could be well worth your time when you are just starting out and provide you with a reference to use when submitting your own bids.

Even if you work entirely through the mail with professional letters, your potential customers still like to see the face behind the business. A personal visit or an occasional phone call also helps to show friendliness and it builds confidence in you and your home based business from the office managers perspective.

On the other side, you should keep in mind that, there is a face behind every office and office building. The decision maker. This is the only one, you are trying to influence. You must make contact with these individuals. Remember, you want to be in the right place at the right time.

Keeping in touch on a regular basis with the right people causes that to happen. Simply talking with the right people and keeping in touch with them is the best way to build your home based business.

You should still mail your introduction letter and other items on a regular basis. It's all part of your overall marketing strategy. Don't look at this as a chore but a challenge. To a great extent, being in the right place at the right time is important.

The more bids you put out, the more business you will get. Other types of advertising are very expensive and not nearly as effective as dealing directly with office managers.

Increase the number of contacts you make, one at a time. Develop a list of names, addresses and phone numbers of office managers who do use a cleaning service in your area. Keep in touch with these people and your income will increase as a result.

Generally speaking, the more office managers you contact, the more likely you are to find people to do business with. The more you keep in touch with them, the more likely you are to find people to hire you and your cleaning home based business.

Spend some time visiting office managers in person, face to face. You could walk in or just stop in to see the ones you have already mailed a letter to. If you do walk in, so to speak, be sure to get one of their business cards while you are there, to add to your own mailing list.

Many offices are not satisfied with the cleaning service they currently have, because some people are never totally satisfied and because many cleaning services do not do a good job of cleaning. There is not any employee of any cleaning company who cares as much as the owner of the cleaning company does, about the quality of work that is done.

This is what gives you a real opportunity to submit a bid and get the job. So count on your personal visits or direct phone calls to get your home based business started, but your mailing program to a targeted list will most often be the key that opens the doors and should not be neglected. As far as how often should you mail something to the same office. At least once every 3 months is good.

Be sure to take a look at all the other home based business opportunities on my web site, you might be interested in doing several of these businesses to increase your potential income. So lets get started making money and have the financial freedom that you deserve!

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