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Before I give you some tips on how to start your own house cleaning business, let’s think about why you might want to do this. It’s really quite a good money-making opportunity for a simple reason: most people dislike cleaning house. They like the results but not the work.

But as everyone knows, houses need cleaning on a regular basis. They just get dirtier each day till something is done. So despite economic woes or crazy schedules, people need to do something about the house, at least sometimes!

Since they aren’t keen on cleaning house, many people will be interested in hiring you. Start your own housekeeping business, do the work of getting started, and you can gradually get pretty much all the work you can handle. Some clients may be weekly, while others could be biweekly or just now and then. You can tell everyone what days you are willing to work also.

These steps should get you started:

1. Consider your cleaning supplies. You may have everything you need already. In any case, don’t spend much getting tools and equipment at this stage… save that for when your business is generating the income to improve your gear.

2. Do a few house cleaning jobs for friends, in exchange for written testimonials they will give you, with permission to use their names or at least their first names. This step has two purposes: the testimonials will be good for advertising, but even more important, you will have a chance to be sure that you do in fact want to start your own house cleaning business.

Let me expand a little on that, because it’s important. Notice how you feel cleaning other people’s bathrooms and so on, and also notice how producing the results of nice clean houses makes you feel. If you find you really have to grit your teeth to get through the jobs, then this is not the ideal job for you and you will probably not have the emotional energy to make a success of it. Of course, you don’t have to love every moment of the cleaning process, but be sure you do feel some satisfaction in a job well done.

3. On your own computer or a borrowed one, make some flyers, with Word or something like it. List your name, your phone number, and you email if you use it a lot. Define what kinds of cleaning you do. Use those testimonials, and edit them for the best effect. Also give your rates. Incidentally, before you decide on your rates, do some research into what is usual in your area. Print out the flyers — colored paper makes them easier to notice — and put them on every bulletin board you can find.

4. Find out if you need a business license or other legal requirements and take care of them. This is not usually all that difficult.

5. Keep good records of what you earn and what your expenses are. You do need this for taxes, but you also want to know how well your business is coming along.

These tips only scratch the surface of what could be said about starting your own house cleaning business. For more, do come visit my website!