How to Start a Home-Based Housecleaning

This comprehensive guide provides all the necessary tools and strategies one needs to successfully launch and grow a business cleaning homes. The authors combine personal experience with expert advice on every aspect of setting up and running a thriving home-based housecleaning business. In addition to the essentials common to the series, this volume also includes information on franchising, selecting cleaning products and treating stains, and much more.

Laura Jorstad is a freelance writer and editor.

Melinda Morse started her successful housecleaning business in 1994 to help pay for graduate school. She has since earned a PhD, expanded her business, and launched a writing career.

Considering a Home-Based Housecleaning Business
Getting Started I: The Legalities
Getting Started II: Getting Your Business off the Ground
How to Plan and Develop a Service Manual
How to Screen Clients
Cleaning 101
Understanding and Serving Customers
Setting up the Home Office
Record Keeping
Taxes
Insurance and Bonding
Advertising
When Bad Things Happen to Good Housecleaners
Becoming and Employer
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How to Start a Home-Based Housecleaning Business * Organize Your Business * Get Clients And Referrals * Set Rates And Services * Understand Customer Needs * Bill And Renew Contracts * Offer "Green" Cleaning Options

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