How can your make your office cleaning business a success? I think it was Oscar Wilde who said, “Be yourself – everyone else is already taken”. Your intentions are a powerful force as you build your office cleaning business. Imagine you’re an Olympic athlete, trained and ready to compete. See yourself crouched in position at the starting line with all the other competitors. All your senses are alert, listening for the crack of the starting gun. In the final pre-event moment,

In my previous post I looked at some of the elements (customer accounts and ‘goodwill’) that make up an existing business: If your interested in more information about a business, start digging deeper- Key questions you must ask before buying an established janitorial business: Why is the company for sale? Where are the accounts located? What is the monthly gross billing? What are the monthly expenses, and what is the monthly net income? What kind of salary is the owner payin

Besides starting your own business from scratch, there are three other ways of getting started in the contract cleaning business: One of them is to buy an existing janitorial business - When you buy a cleaning business you usually don’t get much in the way of physical assets – some cleaning equipment supplies, inventory, etc. What you are really paying for are customer accounts and goodwill. Customer accounts – this is where the true value of any janitorial service exists. Th

I get emails from folks wanting to start a contract cleaning service, and one of their biggest fears is challenging the already existing “competition”. Their concerns usually go something like this… “Rod, I would love to start an office cleaning service but there are so many companies already in the business! To a start-up business person this would seem to be a big problem. However, the opposite is true: Because, when you see a lot of other companies, that means THERE IS A L