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Saddle up – learn how to start a cleaning business in Texas

Let’s discard the standard yee-haw cliches of an article about Texas and get down to the brass tacks of establishing a house cleaning business in Texas, y’all (I couldn’t resist). From choosing the right business structure to ensuring compliance with state and local laws, we can help you navigate starting a business in the lone star state.

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Sales & Marketing

Printable Holiday Cleaning Flyers & Door Hangers Now Available and Ready for You to Customize!

Why Flyers for House Cleaning Businesses? Because they’re the best way for you to control your marketing dollars. Instead of advertising to everyone in a zip code (like you would with postal mailers), you decide where to place them. This is the perfect way to connect with your target market. Customize Although the flyers are […]

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Startup

What to Charge for Cleaning Houses

  What Should You Charge for House Cleaning? New business owners routinely ask how much they should charge to clean a house. That’s a very hard question to answer because someone in Arkansas can’t charge the same price a business in California charges, simply due to location. Your rate is also dependent on your business […]

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Startup

Start a Successful Cleaning Business with No Experience

Even with no experience, you can create advantages that will help you start and run a successful cleaning business. There’s lots of qualities you’ll need that are unrelated to experience, from physical fitness, to mental toughness, to a customer orientation and a drive to work. So let’s dive in and learn more.

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Operations

Why You Need to Use Work Orders in Your House Cleaning Business

You’ve heard of work orders, but maybe you think they’re for large businesses or maybe you don’t really understand the purpose and how they can help your house cleaning business. Make no mistake, work orders should be part of your daily work.

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Frequently Asked Questions How to Start a House Cleaning Business

How to Start a Cleaning Business with No Money

  Many people today want to transition from their demanding 9-5 job into a business of their own. They’re already living on a budget and wonder what it would take to start a cleaning business for free or with no money as an investment. This is like asking, “Is it possible to get something for […]

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Operations

Is Your Small Business Struggling? 10 Issues to Fix NOW – Before You Fail

Chances are you’ve heard the statistics many times before. According to the U.S. Small Business Administration, only seven out of ten “new employer” firms survive at least two years, and only half will last five years. And these numbers refer only to businesses that have hired employees – if you consider one-person work at home […]

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Startup

Start a Business: The Top 6 Reasons to Start a House Cleaning Business

If you’re like a lot of people, you have a desire to quit the rat race of your current job and start your own profitable business where you’re the boss. One way to make this desire real is to sit down and make a list of the businesses you’d like to own and the reasons why.

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Licensing Startup

How to start a house cleaning business in Florida

Starting a new cleaning business can be a daunting task, no question. It’s important to have a plan of action, and to have a guide to help you navigate Florida’s rules and regulations. That’s why we put this article together – to help you quickly understand what’s required to start a business in Florida, and how to get set up quickly so you can land that critical first paying customer.

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Startup

Types of Business Entities for Your Residential Cleaning Business

There’s many ways to build a residential cleaning business, but the type of business entity you define can protect you or leave you exposed:

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HR

Hiring, Managing and Motivating Cleaning Employees

One of the best things you can do before you hire workers is to assemble a process for hiring, training, and managing employees. If you think you can  hire subcontractors, research how contractors are managed differently than employees to comply with IRS guidelines before you make the  commitment. When you hire workers as employees, you […]

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HR

8 Steps to Transition From a Solo House Cleaner and Hire Your First Worker

How to Hire Employees for Your Small Business Once you have started your business doing the work yourself, it’s a daunting task to consider bringing in workers. You’re used to working alone and your clients are used to you and how you provide the service. You have invested everything you have in nurturing your clients […]

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HR

How to Terminate an Employee in Your Residential Cleaning Business

In this post you’ll learn: The legal aspects of terminating an employee What you need to have before hiring employees How a review process is used to validate the termination How to reduce the emotional impact for the employee Making the decision to terminate an employee is hard, but actually sitting down and telling the […]

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Operations

Developing Training Manuals for Your Residential Cleaning Business

Creating training manuals for your house cleaning business is one of the best decisions you can make if you have made the decision to hire workers. This creates a system new hires can follow to perform the work to your standards. These manuals don’t have to be huge at all, but they do need to […]

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Finance

How to Value Your Cleaning Business When it’s Time to Sell

Deciding the value of your cleaning business when it’s time to sell is what many small business owners want to know. In reality, the fair selling price of a business is what a buyer is willing to pay and what the seller is willing to accept. Sounds easy, but is it really? When selling a […]

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HR

Setting Up an Employee Recruitment Plan

blank line How to Hire Employees for Cleaning Business Before you start recruiting, read this post on how to hire employees for your small business. These eight things must be completed before you hire your first worker.blank line This article will explain what you need to do to setup a staff recruitment plan: – What […]

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Startup

3 Business Lessons You Should Know Before Starting a Cleaning Business

In this article, I’ll share 3 things you should do before you start a business Before you start a new business, you must know that there are many people who are already doing it successfully. In order to compete with those experienced people, you have to know the rules of the business really well. Take […]

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Sales & Marketing

How to Add New Income Streams to Your Residential Cleaning Business

In this article, you’ll discover how to create additional income streams for your house cleaning business No matter how you have configured your residential cleaning business, you can always increase sales from your existing clients. This works by offering additional services on a regular basis your clients can use. Many clients won’t ask unless you […]

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Operations

5 Tips to Raise Your Residential Cleaning Prices

One of the hardest thing to do is to make the decision to raise your price for house cleaning clients. If you don’t, you could risk losing money and in the long run – your business. If you do raise your price, you run the risk of losing a client. In this article, I’ll explain: […]

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HR

Effective Strategies to Reduce Interview Cancellations and No Shows in Your House Cleaning Business

One of the top issues in residential cleaning is the hiring process to grow your business. If you haven’t managed people the process will leave you shocked and frustrated with a lot of questions. One thing you want to avoid is sitting around waiting for interview candidates who never show! In this article I’ll share: […]