Woody,
you will have your hands full for a while.
Obviously you have staff handling skills from the restraunts,which you will
need. My feeling is cleaning is a skilled but poorly paid job, an unskilled
cleaner can put the wrong cleaning product on a fiberclass surface [modern
shower] and ruin it, or spill a bucket of window cleaning liquid on a carpet
and you are up for a carpet cleaning bill.
Women are generally better for domestic
cleaning and men for industrial, vet your employees, a cleaner who steals or
takes liberties like for example haveing a swim in a home owners
pool can cause the loss of a good contract and give you all a bad
name.
It is something I would do "full on for 2
years" and then get out of.
Allan.
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Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 10:42
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Subject: [sharechat] Cleaning
Just a side bar here. I am in the process of purchasing a
cleaning company. It is cheap to buy, low overheads,very profitable a great
cashflow business. I am going to have to work it for a couple of months
until Ican increase my cliental.
I am a Chef by trade and have owned many restaurants,
however a cleaning business is new to me. I have even taken a partime job
with another cleaning company to gain experience. Question to any chat
member that has expertise in this area. How can I increase my cliental and
any tricks of the trade would be appreciated. I plan to build it up a larger
company then put in a manager.
Woody
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