10 Reasons to Start an Office Cleaning Business
January 2nd, 2012Office cleaning may not be a very glamorous job, its physical, repetitive and low paid. People look down their noses at you, don’t appreciate your hard work, blame you for things that you haven’t done and leave their dirty dishes lying around. However on a more positive note, if you fancy the idea of being your own boss and don’t mind a bit of hard work, cleaning can be a very profitable business. No need to rent offices, just run the business from home.
Be Your Own Boss
Being your own boss, allows you to charge the customer the going rate for the services you provide. The better quality service you can offer, the higher the rate you can charge the customer. Before you know it, you will be able to take on employees to do the work for you.
Set Your Own Hours
Cleaning can be done early in the morning, evenings, at the weekends or during working hours. Once you have staff working for you, it’s easy to be flexible on your own hours. Remember you’re the boss! Just keep your phone switched on to enable you to deal with any emergencies!
Work Never Dries Up
There is no shortage of work in the cleaning industry, daily or weekly cleaning will always be an essential requirement for commercial office space, shops, leisure facilities, factories and more. Provide a good cleaning service and work will come flooding in from recommendations and referrals.
Earn a Regular income
For you as a business, the cleaning industry means regular scheduled contract work and a regular income for you. All you need to do is provide a good service and keep the customer happy. They will continue to use your business if you keep your standards high.
Provide Additional Services to Increase Your Profit
As a cleaning business, there are so many added services that you can provide e.g. carpet cleaning, window cleaning, computer cleaning, product supply to name a few. Your clients will come to you first for these services if you are their core cleaning provider.
Quick to Setup
Buy some cleaning products and you can start immediately! It’s hard work at first, especially if you decide to do the work yourself but in time, you can employ staff to help you, take on more contracts, expand and increase your profits!
Low Budget Start Up
Some cleaning materials and a vacuum cleaner is all that’s required for daily office cleaning. A vehicle will be required at some point as your business grows.
Expand Your Business
As your business grows and you gain more cleaning contracts, you may need a vehicle, equipment such as a portable vacuum cleaner and more specialised equipment dependant on the services you decide to offer. You can employ staff, look for more contracts and grow your business.
No Cleaning Experience Required
Cleaning is largely common sense, if you are a sensible person, it’s a straightforward business to choose. If it’s dirty, clean it. If it’s not dirty, don’t. Use the correct cleaning products and materials, be aware of health and safety and offer a quality service. We all clean our own homes so we all have a certain amount of experience already but it is very physical work so a certain level of fitness is required.
Sub Contract
If you don’t have the resources to do the job, find someone who can and sub contract the work to them. You invoice the customer and add your mark up on to the price.