How to start a home-based housecleaning business
From the Publisher: Everything you need to know to run a successful housecleaning business from your home Have you ever thought about starting your own home-based house-cleaning business? Have you been hesitant to put your plans into action? This comprehensive guide contains all the necessary tools...
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Guilford, Conn. :
Globe Pequot Press,
Ã2009.
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| Edition: | 3rd ed. |
| Series: | Home-based business series.
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| 505 | 0 | |a Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Why a home-based business? -- 1: Considering A Home-based Housecleaning Business -- Staring a business: the reality -- Is a home-based housecleaning business right for you? -- 2: Getting Started: The Legalities -- What kind of business am I? -- Choosing and registering a name for your company -- Applying for a business license -- Setting up a business bank account -- 3: Getting Started II: Getting Your Business Off The Ground -- Setting fees -- Getting the first client or two -- How to get a business logo -- 4: How To Plan And Develop A Service Manual -- Presentation -- Cover page -- Mission statement -- Consultation -- Clientele -- Services -- Confidentiality and security -- Client mailing list -- Safety -- Rates -- Scheduling -- Cancellations -- Billing and payments -- Contract renewal -- Community and charitable causes -- General information -- Room plans -- Sample service manual -- 5: How To Screen Clients -- By telephone -- In person -- Just say no -- Follow through -- 6: Cleaning -- Well-stocked cleaner -- Cleaning play-by-play -- Stains -- Safe transport of cleaning products -- Scheduling -- Taking care of yourself -- 7: Green Housecleaner -- What is green? -- Why green? -- Getting started -- What's in your cleaning bucket? -- Green tools -- Green cleaning resources -- 8: Understanding And Serving Customers -- Five essential elements of customer services -- Housecleaners and pets -- 9: Setting Up The Home Office -- Basic equipment -- Privacy -- 10: Record Keeping -- Cash or accrual? -- Business checkbook -- Mileage records -- Income records -- Expense records -- Monthly net income statement -- Client records -- Invoicing -- 11: Taxes -- Deductions for the home-based business -- Deductions for the housecleaning business -- 12: Insurance And Bonding -- Liability insurance -- Bonding -- 13: Marketing -- Internet -- Yellow pages -- Newspapers -- Flyers -- Business cards -- Magnetic car signs -- Networking -- Word of mouth -- Funding-raising and community outreach -- 14: When Bad Things Happen To Good Housecleaners -- Inappropriate behavior -- First aid -- 15: Future -- Becoming an employer -- Becoming a specialist -- Appendix 1: Checklist of start-up requirements -- Appendix 2: Resources -- Where to get your business questions answered -- Where to get your housecleaning questions answered -- Green housecleaning -- Support and sanity for entrepreneurs -- Appendix 3: Blank room plans -- Index -- About the authors. | |
| 520 | |a From the Publisher: Everything you need to know to run a successful housecleaning business from your home Have you ever thought about starting your own home-based house-cleaning business? Have you been hesitant to put your plans into action? This comprehensive guide contains all the necessary tools and strategies you need to successfully launch and grow your business. Laura Jorstad and Melinda Morse combine personal experience with expert advice on every aspect of setting up and running a thriving home-based housecleaning business. They explain how to get started, develop a service manual, screen clients, serve customers, select cleaning products, learn from the competition, and set up a home office, as well as how to use the Internet to grow your business. This new edition also addresses the benefits of cleaning with "green," ecofriendly chemicals, both from an environmental and a marketing perspective. Use these special features and workbook pages: Sample service manual ; Room-by-room home-cleaning plans ; Sample invoice ; Service and payment record ; Checklist of start-up requirements. | ||
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