Cleaning Business

7 Tips For Starting A Successful Cleaning Business (2024)

Pat Walls

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Updated: January 19th, 2023

Want to start your own cleaning business? Here are some tips you should know:

Learn more about starting a cleaning business:

Where to start?

-> How much does it cost to start a cleaning business?
-> Pros and cons of a cleaning business

Need inspiration?

-> Other cleaning business success stories
-> Marketing ideas for a cleaning business
-> Cleaning business slogans
-> Cleaning business Instagram bios
-> Cleaning business Instagram captions

Other resources

-> Profitability of a cleaning business
-> Blog post ideas for a cleaning business
-> Cleaning business quotes

We've interviewed thousands of successful founders at Starter Story and asked what advice they would give to entrepreneurs who are just getting started.

Here's the best advice we discovered for starting a cleaning business:

#1: Neel Parekh, founder of MaidThis Franchise:

We chatted with with Neel, founder of MaidThis Franchise ($100K/month). In our interview, Neel says:

Learn which 1-2 marketing avenues work best for your specific local market and hone in on those. Once you optimize those, move on to the next and next and keep going from there.

Additionally:

If you can time collapse your progress simply by paying to learn from someone else’s successes and failures, do it. You’ll save yourself a lot of time and money on trial and error.

Read the full interview ➜

#2: Jeffrey Krentzman, founder of The BBQ Cleaner:

We chatted with with Jeffrey, founder of The BBQ Cleaner ($70K/month). In our interview, Jeffrey says:

Get a firm understanding of what benefits your potential customers would get by using your business and then find the best way to communicate that in a way that your client feels a sense of trust.

Read the full interview ➜

#3: Neel Parekh, founder of MaidThis Franchise:

We chatted with with Neel, founder of MaidThis Franchise ($100K/month). In our interview, Neel says:

With any first product or service launch, you’re almost guaranteed to get some aspect of it wrong. You might be priced too low, not be addressing the right target market, or have the package all wrong.

Read the full interview ➜

#4: Jeffrey Krentzman, founder of The BBQ Cleaner:

We chatted with with Jeffrey, founder of The BBQ Cleaner ($70K/month). In our interview, Jeffrey says:

Surround yourself with a network of people who have found success previously. Surrounding yourself with people that know what they are talking about is a tremendous advantage to solving problems.

Read the full interview ➜

#5: Jeffrey Krentzman, founder of The BBQ Cleaner:

We chatted with with Jeffrey, founder of The BBQ Cleaner ($70K/month). In our interview, Jeffrey says:

Surrounding yourself with people that know what they are talking about is a tremendous advantage to solving problems.

Additionally:

Continuing to allow people to live their entrepreneurial dream and doing everything we can to get them to make that dreams successful continues to be the goal.