Professional cleaners now make anywhere from $20 to $50 an hour. If you have had experience, such as cleaning at a hotel, restaurant, etc. you need to get in on this! Place business cards and flyers for your cleaning services in affluent areas of your locale. Most wealthy people simply do not have the time, or do not want to, clean their own home. You can clean once a week, which would usually take about 3-6 hours, depending on how large the home is. If the latter were the case, and you charged $20 an hour, you would make $60 in just three hours. Add clients for each day of the week and you are in business!

Most of the businesses you find around you call for a hefty investment. However, if you are a person who is rather particular in cleanliness then the best option for your own business would be a house cleaning service. All that will be required will be a bucket of cleaning supplies and some rags. Perhaps, a vacuum, a broom and a long handled duster too would be additional benefits in helping you run your business.

There are many wealthy people around who either do not have the time or maybe do not want to clean their homes. You can offer your services of house-cleaning to these people. It is not necessary to clean their houses everyday; once a week would be sufficient. Your charges could be on an hourly basis; as larger houses take a longer time to clean than smaller ones. Hourly charges can range from $20 – $50. Houses generally take about 3-6 hours to clean; it all depends on the house. So if you charged about $20 per hour, you can easily make $60 per day. Imagine how much you could earn if you worked about 6 hours a day; six days a week.

It is not that you only have to clean houses; you can also clean offices. Or if you can enlist a few more volunteers to help you with your cleaning, you could also consider starting a janitorial business that services the larger commercial establishments. You can also reap more profits by specializing in a particular type of cleaning. You could offer to clean rental homes and apartments after tenants move out. Instead of enlisting others, get your spouse involved; there are many successful husband and wife teams around making lots of money with their cleaning services!

To expand on your cleaning business, you may need some form of advertisement. Instead of only placing an advertisement in the newspaper, you could also create flyers to place in affluent areas around you. Print business cards to distribute in your neighborhood or a neighborhood shopping mall. This way, more people will get to know about your services, and thus use your cleaning services. You can also consider advertising on the radio; who knows there may be someone out there listening to the radio, and in need of cleaning services.

Currently, not only the wealthy seek cleaning services. Most of the families of today have both parents working where there seems to be insufficient time for housework. Children, cooking, and office duties leaves the parent too exhausted to do any cleaning; and so to overcome this hassle of cleaning the house, they too turn to cleaning services. Instead of the burden of cleaning of the house, they will gladly pay $20 – $40 per week to have their houses cleaned.

You could pay visits to your supply store to get some expert advice on winning new customers also. Merging with other cleaning services proves to be beneficial for you on your slow days. Or perhaps, you could get their help when you are busy or too sick to work too!

Resources:

www.amazon.com/How-Start-Home-Based-Housecleaning-Business/dp/0762738766

www.smallbizbooks.com/

www.homebiztools.com/