A BUSINESS MODEL WITH MULTIPLE ENTRY POINTS

There has never been a better time than now to begin working for yourself. With 30,000,000 Americans unemployed halfway through 2020, it's clear that the only way to really find financial stability and peace of mind is to work for yourself. Even during a pandemic, there are essential businesses that must stay open to keep the world working. A cleaning business is one of them!

This course is basically a toolkit, providing you with everything I wish I would have known before I started my own cleaning business, and you stand to save hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars by utilizing it. (Seriously...I mismanaged labor, wasted money on the wrong supplies, and lost thousands by underbidding. I stopped counting how much I would have saved if I had this toolkit when I got to $10,000, so it's probably worth even more!)

What's more, this toolkit will explore three distinct streams of cleaning income, teaching you a business model that:

• Dramatically increases your chances of obtaining long-term cleaning contracts through intimate knowledge of the space and materials before the business is even open.
• Allows you to be paid by one company to advertise your services to the next, in order to secure continued business.
• Naturally puts you in front of decision makers for businesses that are looking for cleaning companies for a new space, before other cleaning companies even know it's on the market.
• Targets projects and businesses that pay double or triple the amount of average construction cleaning, with ways for cutting cost through proven techniques and suggestions.
• Secures multiple long-term streams of income by building relationships with the right people.
• Saves you 90% - 99% of the cost of purchasing a cleaning franchise!!

Your tools include 35 lessons, 13 templates (bidding, invoicing, marketing, cleaning protocols, and more!); strategies for building business (both within the business model and outside of it); real-number examples of cleaning accounts; supply lists and ways to reduce supply cost; specific bidding suggestions you can't find ANYWHERE online; cleaning methods and suggestions that save time and money; and much more! Whether you're looking to expand your cleaning business, you're an entrepreneur looking for a new project, or you're a first time business owner thinking of making the jump into working for yourself, this toolkit is a valuable resource.

Purchasing a cleaning franchise will certainly give you resources and stability, but they come with an extraordinarily high price tag (the lowest I could find was around $10K, with the average price landing around $100K. I saw several that were over $1M...). What's more, most of them still require you to purchase your own equipment, marketing materials, insurance, and more. This toolkit will help you navigate much of the headache that comes with learning the cleaning industry, but with strategies to help you quickly ramp up and start making money with a fraction of the cost!

THE SWEET SPOT--Why you bought this toolkit!

The sweet spot that hardly ANYONE exploits is the transition period between construction and occupancy. This toolkit teaches you to utilize construction cleaning as a method of generating janitorial accounts...whereby the construction company pays you to advertise your cleaning services to the new business that moves in. In other words, you get paid to develop a cleaning plan of action for a new business and then showcase directly to those new clients before they're even on the market! With this strategy, you have access to the new tenants, business owners, or managers before other cleaning companies even have them on their radar. Since you’ve been in the space since construction, you’ll be familiar with the layout and the materials, significantly reducing the ramp up time to training your cleaners. By approaching construction cleaning with this mindset, you can develop cleaning protocols for the space while you complete the construction cleaning and be ready to take over nightly cleaning from opening day. These advantages are all strong selling points that, when coupled with the opportunity to meet the future managers/owners before the construction is even complete, significantly increase your chances of regular janitorial contracts. This is especially true for restaurant construction and restaurant cleaning! You can charge nearly TWICE as much for restaurant construction cleaning (as opposed to retail or office construction cleaning), and regular restaurant cleaning provides its own profitable advantages. The insight you need to be successful lies in the sections ahead!

WHO IS BEST SUITED FOR THIS BUSINESS?

It’s important to note that no matter your background, experience, size, age, fitness level, or financial acumen, ANYONE CAN BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS BUSINESS! Even if, like me, you have ZERO experience in the construction OR cleaning industries, don’t worry! This toolkit will give you the shortcuts to quickly start and ramp up a successful cleaning business that took me months and thousands of dollars to figure out. 

If you’re looking for a head start, here are some industries that lend advantages to starting a construction cleaning business:

• GCs, Site Superintendents, Construction Trade Professionals - If you already work on a construction site but are looking for more freedom for yourself and your schedule, starting a construction cleaning company could be an excellent option. You’re already familiar with the flow and feel of a construction site and already have connections with companies, vendors, and other subs for business. You’ve probably already worked with cleaning crews as well, so you have even more insight into what works and what doesn’t, and possibly even bid numbers. 
• Janitors and Cleaning Professionals - Even if you’re unfamiliar with the construction process, janitors and cleaners also enter this game ahead of the pack. Your familiarity with cleaning equipment and supplies, as well as proper techniques for using them, cuts down on the learning time up front (that can quickly become expensive). If you have connections/accounts with janitorial supply companies, you also stand to benefit early on with discounts, leads on used equipment, and proper maintenance. For you, it’s simply a matter of adapting to the type of cleaning on a construction site and leveraging the model to build more clientele.
• NOTE: This business is also perfect for people that already own a cleaning company and want to add additional revenue streams to their business!
• Restaurant & Service Industry Professionals - From dish washer to GM, the restaurant industry is the perfect training ground for a cleaning business. You’ve been cleaning every day already, and higher end restaurant workers tend to have a greater sense of detail than most. What’s more, the industry lends itself to connections of all kinds, from people to tap for your cleaning crews, to a constant influx of people you can ask for connections. As an industry veteran myself, I got some of my first crews, business opportunities, and connections from restaurant regulars and coworkers.  
• Couples and Families - Some of the few financial challenges of this business can be eased if you have a partner or family that wants to join you in this endeavor. Early jobs are easier to knock out without startup funds if you have friends/family that will wait a month to get paid when you do. Smaller jobs can also be accomplished by you (and a few people if need be) to save labor, rather than paying for a larger crew. Lastly, a family business can sometimes offer you stability, as well as give the impression of stability to the companies that hire you. Eventually, the GCs and superintendents you work repeatedly with can start to feel like family too!
• Minority- and women-owned businesses have unique opportunities in this sector, including local, state, and national funds specifically withheld for them. Check out this article for more: https://www.growbusiness.org/what-is-the-women-owned-small-business-and-minority-owned-business-certification/

Even if you don’t fall into one of the above categories, you’ll gain more than enough inside-information in this toolkit to make you successful. It’s much more important that you’re open to learn, willing to work hard, and stick with it.