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...
| Main Author: | Jorstad, Laura. |
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| Other Authors: | Morse, Melinda. |
| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Guilford, Conn. :
Globe Pequot Press,
Ã2009.
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| Edition: | 3rd ed. |
| Series: |
Home-based business series.
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| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- 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.