Five Sure-Fire Cleaning Company Killers

1. Not marketing

Sitting in front of a keyboard on the web all day long is not marketing, it is sitting. Subcontracting from other janitorial companies or buying accounts from franchise companies makes you a janitor not a cleaning company owner.

Marketing your services with no money is hard. Whoever said you could open and start a cleaning company with no money, any more than you can open a restaurant or a gas station with no money, lied to you. You can market your services with no money to a point, but getting rich is highly doubtful and you have to work ten times harder.

Checklist for Success in the Janitorial Business

You are being lied to! Inc. Magazine, Entrepreneur Magazine, Home Business Success Magazine, and a bunch of business opportunity magazines have told you that you can be rich and famous in your own cleaning business. If you are reading this then you have read one or more of these articles.

There is the story of some smiling Mr. and Mrs. Average holding a broom, posing with one foot on a mop bucket who are now millionaires with a successful janitorial business. The story is true but then the article goes on to say that, you can do the same thing.

Here is the truth, you CAN, but you may not.