By Ben Lobel on Small Business UK – Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs
If you are thinking about setting up your own cleaning business, there are a few things you need to consider before doing so.
First of all, you need to make sure that this type of business is the right one for you. In order to be a cleaner you need to have good physical health because cleaning can be hard and strenuous work. You will also need to have good customer relation skills as you are required to deal with clients on a regular basis.
You’re going to need to have a clear vision of where you are planning to place your cleaning business.
What you do need to know is that the cleaning industry is split into three:
Domestic: Consists primarily of residential or household cleaning
Commercial: Commercial cleaning is dominated by janitorial services, where they provide a much wider range of services over domestic cleaning. They tend to serve businesses rather than individual consumers/homes
Specialist: Specialist cleaning comes into play if it’s something more germinated or higher-risk to clean
Research all aspects of the cleaning service business world, from advertising to customer services, taxes, insurance, employees and how much