Now, you opened your cleaning services company and decided what kind of services you are willing to provide. You have your web page is up and your advertising is running online and offline on the newspapers. You are by the phone and expecting customers to call you. However, the first thing comes first, the advice of your accountant and your insurance agent about your new company, its operations and business.
This is the best time to talk to your accountant regarding your taxes, workers compensation, that every aspect related to your company required by private and governmental organizations. It is also very important to talk to an insurance agent after your accountant. You have to have your insurance papers ready before planning to clean, such as office cleaning, after - post construction cleaning, carpet cleaning, window cleaning, etc. Why ? On a job site, an un-expectable dangerous situating might arise and somebody might be injured. In this case, the least papers you will need are your Insurance and Workers Compensation. In another case, you are trying to do your best to provide the best carpet cleaning service and/or hardwood floor installation, sanding and refinishing service to your customer. In case of damaging your customer's carpet, hardwood floor, etc. , you are going to need your insurance desperately.
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Now, it is time to invest your money to business needs; machinery and supplies. On my opinion, there are 3 different ways to buy machinery. First, you can buy, second you can lease, third you can rent, as far as I know there are no other options. When it comes to cleaning supply, either you can go to your local supplier and buy based on your needs; such as each job or you can find a good competitive supplier of cleaning stuff, and buy in large quantities. Keep in mind that janitorial supplier stores have different discount packages of cleaning stuff when you buy a lot from them.
Planning is the heart of every business, if you don't do a good planning, you will more likely have problems in the later stage of your cleaning services business. There are two types of planning, short term, and long term. I advise you to do your first planning shirt term and once your cleaning services business meet its shirt term plans, you can slowly go ahead and do more detailed and long term oriented planning. This is where you should see that your business is growing.
Conclusion; You need to get your papers ready, you need to decide what kind of machinery and how to buy , and you need to do your planning as soon as possible! Not to forget, in every business a hard work and knowledge is a must. If you want to include carpet cleaning [http://www.anycc.net/carpet_cleaning_brooklyn_nyc.aspx] services to your operations, the least stuff you need to know are the carpet types, chemicals, how to remove stains, and how to wash carpets. People say, Knowledge is the King. I improve this saying and changed to this, "Knowledge is the King, and a Hard work is a Must". Even if you open a Laundromat, which is a very profitable business, you need to know its expenses; such as cost of electricity, cost of laundromat machines and parts. If you are not a handyman person, and don't know how to fix laundry machines, then you will need a laundromat service provider. However, in case of a failure of a washer If you know how to repair and order of a specific laundry parts such as ipso parts or wascomat parts etc. the only thing you need in your packet is your capital.
On my next article, I am planning to write about Organizing, and hiring part of the cleaning business from my experiences.
You Open Your Cleaning Services Company - Now What to Do?
Robert Demirsoy is working for ANYCC INC as a Sales Manager and, one of the duties is to take care of internet marketing for the company.