How to be your area's number one house cleaning service. How Much Money Can I Make? | Franchise Help. What Do You Need to Start a Home Cleaning Business? How to Start a Cleaning Service. Editor's note: This article was excerpted from our Cleaning Service start-up guide, available from Entrepreneur Bookstore. If it can get dirty, chances are someone will be willing to pay you to clean it. And that's why few industries can claim the variety and depth of opportunities that professional cleaning can. The cleaning industry has two primary market groups: consumer and commercial.
The consumer arena consists primarily of residential maid services, along with carpet cleaners, window cleaners and a variety of other cleaning services required on a less-frequent basis. The commercial arena is dominated by janitorial services, which typically provide a wider range of services than maid services, along with other cleaning companies, such as carpet and window cleaners that target businesses rather than individual consumers. Before you leap into the cleaning business, it's important to look at it with 20/20 vision.
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