![]() ![]() moreġ4 4.3K 3 posts / week View Recent Threads 3. unning & managing your business, promote your start-ups, and find help & tips for growing your business as well. BizWarriors ForumĬonnect with other small business owners and entrepreneurs at the BizWarriors forum and ask all of your small business questions. moreħ posts / month View Recent Threads 2. h users on topics relating to entrepreneurship, startups, small business, and more. As soon as I return to Boston on the 20th, I will begin the process of converting my contractor to a employee and getting all the insurance, Nation's community forums encourage active group discussions with like-minded entrepreneurs sharing tips and valuable advice. Other than plan, there is not much I can do as I am country which heavily restricts internet usage making things very difficult. Next I am going to work out a break even analysis based on all my fixed and variable costs to see how many hours I need to clean to break even in a month. $6.6/hr benefits + insurance (based on 33.3% of pay) So I have come up with a pricing schedule based on frequency. So that way, initially the cleaner/s would be working for me part time just one full day a week until I can build them a full schedule. So when I start offering my service under the new employee-hourly price model, I was going to offer promotional cleaning with "$45 off your first cleaning!", which is effectively 1 free hour, and try and stack 4 cleanings all in one day (each cleaning being 2 hours), one after another. So as of now they are still using their own. When I get a better understanding of the cleaning materials needed, I want to supply only eco friendly green cleaning materials to my cleaners, then I can brand the business as doing "Green Cleanings". My cleaners are still going to use their own materials and vehicle. No its fine, I didnt touch upon cleaning materials yet. ![]() But I think you are right, maybe I need to have a more conservative lifetime customer value to better reflect the realities.either 4 hours a cleaning.or 12 times a year is too high. On the other hand some clients might get their home cleaned for more often than 1 time a month, maybe 2 times a month.or weekly. I am also starting Toastmasters when I get back to Boston. This is my first time posting here and I am just looking at starting a progress thread to get some useful advice. Follow up calls to see how cleanings went My own private label products.ex.air fresheners.put in clients home for freeĢ. Create promotions.ex.$45 off the first clean.ĥ. Outsource adwords to specialist, budget of around $750/monthĤ. Create and update policy.ex.minimum booking of 2 hours.cancellation policy.etcġ. All around improve website including about us sectionĦ. Update booking system Launch27 to reflect change from flat rate to hourlyĥ. Remove sliders from homepage, and add video along with a "book now" CTA buttomĤ. Get "easy to book" video made on upwork or fiverģ. ![]() Workers Comp (Can somebody explain how this works please)Ģ. Obtain Professional Cleaning CertificationĤ. I want to profit at least $9/hr, which is 20% of $45ģ. I want charge clients $45/hr per cleaner (usually I will just send in 1 cleaner) (minimum cleanings 2 hours) I have summed up all the points of which I need to change in the business or improve I learned a lot in the months I spent on building the business and the one month of operating it, but this was my first real "job" so I had to just figure out stuff on my own which made it very hard and stressful.Īnyway, over the next few weeks I plan on rebuilding the business using the employee model and charge hourly, getting all the necessary outsourcing ad words to a specialist. The biggest problems with the business were 1. Long story short I made around $700 in revenue in about a month of operating before I ran the company down as I was leaving the country for a month(Christmas holidays). The initial idea was to operate using the contractor model and use flat rate pricing. A couple years ago i stumbled upon the sub reddit r/entrepreneurridealong and after reading it for a 2 years, I decided that I was going to finally make the move to start my own cleaning business. ![]()
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