One of the hardest and most expensive things for small business owners is marketing and advertising.  With a janitor service you have the advantage of setting up a monthly service contract with your customers.  This gives you an automatic residual stream of income.  Just make sure that your service is up to par every month.  Think of ways you can go above and beyond to keep your customers wowed month after month & you will get strong referrals and never lose that customer.

When you run a janitor service, you will not be trying to work for homeowners. You will be marketing to small – medium businesses, and real estate property managers. It is a little harder to get into this market in the beginning, but it has its real upsides. Business owners want 2 things – the job to get done properly, and to get a good deal. If you can provide outstanding service for a great price, you will have all the work you can handle.

Homeowners tend to be picky, because they have cleaned their house before & they know how they like to be cleaned. But business owners don’t really notice how a space is cleaned so much that it is and meets their expectations.

A janitor service offers what most other small business start ups don’t offer, the ability to keep your day job until your new business takes off. Most janitorial services are done at night while the businesses are closed. So you can work your day job and do the janitorial work any time you are not working. You will still have to spend a small amount of time during working hours for your marketing plan to get accounts etc. But you can be creative with this like spending most of your lunch hour calling potential customers, and you can also use the internet to do a lot of email and online marketing. For starters you can check out this basic online marketing plan.

Although a janitor service doesn’t sound very “cool”, it can be of huge benefit to start & continue to build in the future. Please comment if you have any other ideas!