Start & Run a Home Cleaning Business

by Susan Bewsey

Learn how to start your own home cleaning business with the knowledge and insights of an expert. Get started and keep organized Target your market and assess competition Polish both your business and cleaning techniques Home cleaning is one of the fastest-growing service businesses in North America. A good cleaning service brings comfort and order into people's lives and in today's world, these are highly sought-after commodities. A home cleaning service can start out small, but it has the potential to grow to be a multi-million dollar business with branch offices and franchises. Your business can grow to the point where you need to lease office space, hire staff, purchase a fleet of vehicles, and develop your own products and customized services. With the help of this book, you can get your business up and running, and survive that essential first year. The book answers questions such as: Do I have what it takes to run my own business? What are the legal requirements for running a business like mine? How do I find and keep clients? How much should I charge? What equipment do I need? What other services can I offer? How do I hire and train staff? How does commercial cleaning differ from home cleaning? This updated new edition comes with numerous forms and examples to get you started and keep you organized, now all included on CD-ROM. You can modify the supplied forms in MS Word format to include your corporate logo and identity, and produce copies as you need them.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1551807661
• ISBN13: 9781551807669
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Self-Counsel Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.4" x 9.7"

Customer Reviews

Excellent resource

I've read and re-read Bewsey's book, Start and Run a Home Cleaning Business and she's done a fabulous job. There are lots of ideas for people generally in business for themselves working out of their homes. She has great goal-setting questions and really tries to focus the reader on thinking, not just about cleaning homes, but providing a service that clients will call upon again and again. Bewsey has wonderful customer service ideas, marketing and pricing your service. She's done a great job and this book has already become a very usable resource.

Wonderful book to get you started...

This book got me started and is wonderful! For even more information check out the global cleaning association site and housecleaning pro site also google Suze and Ev. I've read it all and these are the best I've found!

Well Written - Very Helpful

This book is very well written and an excellent guide if the reader is looking to build a successful, profitable home cleaning business. Susan Bewsey does a good job of outlining the steps you need to take to get this business off the ground, and to maintain the business. She also gives a good general idea of what all the business involves. As far as holding your hand to go get the license, bonding and insurance...no, she doesn't do that. But she does tell you what you need, and where and who to check with to obtain them, and to get more information on them. After all, different country's, states, and even city's requirements differ. If you're going to make it in a business of your own, you need to be able to do some things for yourself.

Good Book

This is a good book, not too original or with the times though, times are changing fast. I would recommend augmenting it with the Suze and Ev method for starting a cleaning business, which is available online. Google it!

A Training Manager's Review

The book explains, in simple to understand processes, the methods in commencing a small home based business. The concepts are applicable to any service industry. Susan is to be congratulated on taking it the distance she did. We could use more pioneers like her. Well done! ageless to date.