Domestic/Commercial Cleaning

Hi

Get in touch with the local council in Nuneaton and get some info on how to start up, i think the chamber of commerce will be able to help....

Drop me a line for any marketing ideas, i will help.

danielusah@yahoo.com

Cheers

Daniel

One of the best things to do is give the local business or science park a bell, many of the businesses within there will have a special deal as they will all use the same cleaning firm. If you can get them to bring up a discussion at the next tennants meeting you can land yourself a big contract as your startup contract.

Hi there,

I help run the scsf (small cleaning services federation) all non profit and all run by volunteers, its mainly a referral group used by over 200 small cleaning companies, but we have a forum to help people starting out in the industry, for more info go to:

http://www.scsf.co.uk

Chris

I had and sold a cleaning business.
We generated business by sending out mailers. Explain you are a new enthusiastic business looking to build a business in the area and would be interrsted in providing a no obligation quote.
We got LOADS of calls from doing this because in the main cleaning companies are very unreliable.
So people are always ready to change their current supplier but can't be bothered to do anything about it....so if you go to them it makes it easy for them to change.

Also, use the Yellow pages. DEMAND a good position....right hand page and make sure you are early in the listings.....so your company will need to begin with A-C ideally!

We did these two things and grew our business to 10 people in 3 months!

In terms of costings then call existing businesses and say you wanted to know ruoughly what they charged by the hour. Price a job on the job....not per hour...sometimes you may be there for 20 mins, sometimes 1.5 hours so an hourly rate, we found, was most often not the best route.
We charged around £13 an hour as a guide......but it depends on where you are.

Ideal businesses to go after are: Office blocks, estate agents, car showrooms, doctors surgeries, dentists, pubs

Oh, and dont let people down or the business will die a quick death!

Best of luck....if you want more advice etc. then drop me a line!