The Top 6 Reasons to Start Your House Cleaning Business
Author: Gail Metcalf
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.
To make this list usable, you have to be honest about the pros and cons. If you're thinking about a storefront, then you need to also consider how flexible it will be for the lifestyle you envision for yourself. In reality, owning a store is just like going to a job; but to make it worse, it you're sick or late to work, you might end up with customers waiting at your front door or spreading the word that you're never there. You're actually stuck in the store long hours without a break, six days a week.
But a house cleaning business gives you options. This business can be run to fit any lifestyle and restrictions you have. Here's a few that may have you wanting to get started in your own house cleaning business right now!
1. A Never Ending Supply of Customers
The house cleaning industry has seen tremendous growth. The percent of change between 1965 and 1995 in the number of households that pay for cleaning is 53%. And it is still increasing with the number of dual-income families, affluent single parents and retired workers that are unable to do the cleaning themselves. People are living longer which continually increases the demand for quality house cleaning. Imagine all the customers that are looking for you!
2. Start a House Cleaning Business for Under $100
There are many ways to get started in a house cleaning business. Many have started with only the amount needed to copy and distribute flyers in the neighborhoods they want to work. Will this make you an instant success? Probably not but I guarantee that you will get a steady stream of customers for your new business.
I could write another book on all the different ways to get started, but if you want to guarantee your success as quickly as possible, you need to learn from someone that has actually built the business. Many people write about it but have never done the work. Don't be mislead; there are just as many ways to immediately ruin your new house cleaning business. Make sure you choose the right person as your coach or mentor.
3. Schedule Your Jobs When You Want to Work
This is the perfect business to setup as a part-time or full-time venture. Schedule your jobs 5 days a week or only 2 days a week; after all, it's your choice. And the best part is, when you're ready to increase your hours, you have customers waiting to be scheduled.
4. Work From Your Home
What better way to start your new business wihout having to pay a lot of overhead? Start the business in your home with an area to store your equipment and all you need is a desk and a telephone. I'm sure just about anyone can start this business with these requirements. By fulfilling a few legalities, you're ready to go.
5. Get Your Physical Activity On-The-Job
We're all juggling multiple tasks and your exercise is usually the first to go in a crunch. In the house cleaning business, you're on the move and burning calories. And later on when you're business is thriving with employees and clients, you'll be out performing in-home estimates. Just park down the street from your appointment, and you'll get in your daily walking quota.
6. Work Normal Hours
There are many different types of cleaning businesses, but those that contract with other businesses must schedule their jobs during the off- hours; nights and weekends. With a house cleaning business, you're working during the day and most of your clients will be at work. In today's market, 75% of the houses you clean will have nobody home. This allows you to work as quickly and efficiently as possible and enjoy the "comforts of home". No back entrances and dark doors to enter in lonely industrial parks and empty corporations. And your clients appreciate your hard work and are willing to show it with bonuses!
How much longer will you have your job before it's outsourced? And what about retirement? Most companies are finding ways to get around that and in some cases make it obsolete before you can collect. Stop dreaming about what you want and start doing something about it. You don't have to spend months and years getting started. You don't even have to make all the usual mistakes people make trying to make a profit. There is plenty of information you can rely on to build your dream when you know the right people to go to.
About the author:
Gail Metcalf built her house cleaning business into a thriving enterprise with teams of employees. She developed The House Cleaning Pro turnkey success system to use her procedures and techniques for time efficiency and maximum profit. Learn more at
http://HouseCleaningPro.com
Start A Sewing Machine Repair Business
My name is Tony Asef and I start my own sewing machine business 21 years ago with little knowledge of repairing sewing machine at that time. I remember very good when I was looking for someone to teach me all trick in sewing machine repair business. But unfortunately no books were around! After 21 years in this business I decide to write all my knowledge and trick in this step-by-step book to teach other people how to do their sewing machine repair at home for themselves or as a business.
As we know Sewing-machine repair is one of the fastest growing businesses in the world today. Newspapers, women’s magazines, dry-goods stores, high schools and colleges are going all out to encourage the millions of American women to do their own sewing, not only to make their own clothes, but also slacks, suits, shirts, sweaters, etc. for their husbands, sons, or boyfriends. Statistics also show that the number of women who now make their family wardrobe has grown tremendously. Now is the time when a sewing machine specialist can write his or her own ticket. Never before have the money-making opportunities been so great in this field, if you know what you're doing. This is also one very prestigious occupation. The latest figures show that over 89 million American women, because of high costs of ready-to-wear garments and undesirable workmanship of store-bought clothes, are now making almost all of the clothes for their families.
That is not all. Most of these women find true enjoyment and satisfaction in making the family wardrobe on their own sewing machine. So it is only natural that the demand for excellent service on these sewing machines is on the upswing and growing by leaps and bounds. Think of it! Eighty-nine million or more sewing machines, not including another 10 million sewing machines in schools of all sorts, such as grade schools, high schools, colleges and universities across the land, schools for the deaf, the handicapped, the children’s homes and old folks’ homes, just to name a few. Plus, the sewing machines in hospitals, prisons, homes of correction, tailor shops, women’s shops, and the list could go on and on.
All of these sewing machines need service at least once a year and quite possibly four or more times each year. I'm well aware that some women are forced to return their sewing machine to repairmen time after time trying to get it fixed properly. Not all, by any means, but many so-called sewing-machine specialists simply do not have the knowledge or the know-how to set up, adjust and retime the modern sewing machine. I've seen sewing machines come out of a repair shop in worse shape than they were when they went in, and I am sure that thousands of women could say "Amen" to that statement. So for the above reasons, I decided to write a complete guide to sewing-machine repair and teach people how to repair their own sewing machine at home. On the very first day, you will find that our simple training method is amazing. I assume that you have had no previous experience with the repair of sewing machines. However, if you have had experience, you will learn how to use your knowledge to the best advantage. Your training will be practical from the first page on through to the end of the book. It is based on proven methods of top sewing-machine technicians.
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How to Start Your Own Machine Quilting Business
Dear Quilting Enthusiast,
If you've ever thought about starting your own machine quilting business on the right foot - saving hundreds or thousands of dollars by learning from our mistakes - all while learning specific advertising and marketing strategies to rocket your sales, then this might be the most important letter you'll ever read.
Here's why:
"How to Start Your Own Machine Quilting Business" is a powerful, info-packed business guide written by Kathy Marshall and Judy Turner, veterans in the machine quilting business who learned these valuable lessons the hard way - by running a successful machine quilting for more than eight years.
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How to Make Money Growing Rooted Cuttings and Selling Them Wholesale
Author: Michael J. McGroarty
Once you know how to effectively propagate landscape plants, you will soon have more rooted cuttings than you can use. At that time you can decide whether or not you should quit growing cuttings, since you have all you need, or maybe you’d like to sell some of your cuttings to a wholesale grower.
Let's discuss how easy it is to start a business selling lining out stock. That’s what nurserymen call the little plants that they buy to plant out in the field or in containers. Lining out stock, or liners for short.
“Nurserymen buy plants?” you might be asking.
Yes they do. Nurserymen probably buy more plants than any other group of people in the country. Why would they buy them if they know how to grow them?
Because sometimes they can’t grow them fast enough to keep up with the demand. Or maybe they would like to grow a certain variety of plant, but can’t grow it themselves because they don’t have any place to get several thousand cuttings. So what they do is buy in rooted cuttings, plant them in the field or in containers, and then they either grow them on to sell, or they grow them on and just keep them around a year or two longer so they can take cuttings from them.
Then once they have a supply of their own plants they can sell the ones they bought in that are now landscape size. Does this make sense?
Let’s say that Mary the nursery owner buys 1,000 Variegated Weigela rooted cuttings at 50 cents each. She plants them in the field in the early spring and they take off growing like crazy. That summer she goes out and takes 3 cuttings from each plant (they need pruning anyway, right?).
She sticks those 3,000 cuttings under intermittent mist and in about 5 weeks she has 3,000 rooted cuttings that she can plant out that fall, and she does just that. The following summer she can get about 6,000 cuttings from the original 1000 plants that she bought, plus another 9,000 cuttings from the 3,000 she planted out last fall.
That’s a total of 12,000 cuttings.
She continues to plant her rooted cuttings out in the field and keeps taking cuttings from them until she has all she wants to grow. From then on she can take as many cuttings as she needs from the plants that she has in the field.
By now the original 1,000 plants that she bought at 50 cents each are large enough to dig and sell, and they are worth $10.00 to $15.00 each wholesale. That’s $8,000 from a $500 investment, plus she can produce as many variegated weigela as she wants without buying any more cuttings.
Does it really happen this way? Yes it does. I was recently talking to a friend who grows and sells all kinds of plants and he told me that he has been buying Dwarf Alberta Spruce cuttings and growing them on and selling them. He doesn’t even root any himself, he just buys 5,000 every year, pots them up and sells them wholesale. How many other nurseryman across the country do you suppose do that?
To get started you can either buy a stock plant or two, or buy several hundred cuttings of the variety that you would like to sell. Instead of planting them out in the field, I would plant them in beds. Make each bed 4’ wide so you can reach the center to weed and take cuttings, and place the plants in the bed 10” apart.
As long as you keep taking cuttings the plants will remain fairly small, and compact. Then after two or three years dig them up, put them in pots and sell them. By then you will have thousands more coming on that you can take cuttings from. Start out slow until you know what there is a market for.
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