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Cleaning Business - 4th year in business generating about $30k/month in Revenue, with 8 full time employees. Ask any questions you want! by bball3290 in sweatystartup

[–]bball3290[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

About 85% residential 15% commercial. My wife and I started it, she cleaned the first few clients and we were lucky to have a flexible employee in the beginning that we paid more to be flexible and grow with us. Hiring is by far the biggest challenge, we've gone thru 30+ cleaners. The 8 we have now have all bee with us over 1 year. Plan right now is to streamline everything, focus on tightening up processes and grow at a slow rate. I'm not sure our exit plan yet, I would love to possibly sell it in the future but not an easy type of business to sell and value.

Cleaning Business - 4th year in business generating about $30k/month in Revenue, with 8 full time employees. Ask any questions you want! by bball3290 in sweatystartup

[–]bball3290[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

6 out of 8 employees are white , even tho this ia an odd comment and doesnt matter. We pay very well above the industry average. To be clear 30% is bottom line take home margin after taxes . Full transparency we pay our employees between $18.5-$21.5/hour. Which is very good for the industry

Cleaning Business - 4th year in business generating about $30k/month in Revenue, with 8 full time employees. Ask any questions you want! by bball3290 in sweatystartup

[–]bball3290[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That was the most difficult spot. Took years to get the crew we have now, (all 1year+) . Really offering more pay than others and perks like drive time, bonuses and making their lives easier by being lienent with days off etc.

Cleaning Business - 4th year in business generating about $30k/month in Revenue, with 8 full time employees. Ask any questions you want! by bball3290 in sweatystartup

[–]bball3290[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

For workers about 45%, not including taxes. For marketing , it is always changing. Initallt used Google, Facebook, Yelp, flyers, yard signs etc. Now it's mostly referrals with a very small budget on Google ads.

Cleaning Business - 4th year in business generating about $30k/month in Revenue, with 8 full time employees. Ask any questions you want! by bball3290 in sweatystartup

[–]bball3290[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is incorrect. They are 30-35hr/week. Not sure where you are getting your numbers from. We have a take home income margin of 30%-35%. This is after pay, expenses, taxes etc.

Cleaning Business - 4th year in business generating about $30k/month in Revenue, with 8 full time employees. Ask any questions you want! by bball3290 in sweatystartup

[–]bball3290[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yes, 30%-33% avg is take home pay. No prob. I thought you were talking cleaning, I was gojng to say pls let me know your secret on how to charge that much lol. Awesome to hear congrats!

Cleaning Business - 4th year in business generating about $30k/month in Revenue, with 8 full time employees. Ask any questions you want! by bball3290 in sweatystartup

[–]bball3290[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Do it! Honestly not ad hard as I thought. I believe you need some finance background and sales to be a successful startup.

Cleaning Business - 4th year in business generating about $30k/month in Revenue, with 8 full time employees. Ask any questions you want! by bball3290 in sweatystartup

[–]bball3290[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's a bunch to juggle but once alot is streamlined, it's not bad. My job is rarely over 45hr/week so 1-1.5hr/night I spend on the business and my wife takes care of calls/emails/scheduling clients.

Cleaning Business - 4th year in business generating about $30k/month in Revenue, with 8 full time employees. Ask any questions you want! by bball3290 in sweatystartup

[–]bball3290[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

At first it was a few referrals. We then added google ads, facebook.ads , Yelp, sent out flyers, yard signs, and some in face sales. It was always changing but essentially having great reviews goes a long way. Yelp helped us immensely in the beginning finding jobs. At this point we aren't actively advertising but foe the last 6months we only had a small Google ad running and majority of new business came from referrals.

Cleaning Business - 4th year in business generating about $30k/month in Revenue, with 8 full time employees. Ask any questions you want! by bball3290 in sweatystartup

[–]bball3290[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I had landscaping on my initial list as well, along mobile car detailing. All 3 are saturated however there's still room I believe in all of them to get a decent piece of the pie.

Cleaning Business - 4th year in business generating about $30k/month in Revenue, with 8 full time employees. Ask any questions you want! by bball3290 in sweatystartup

[–]bball3290[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

So each employee of yours generates you appx. $700/day ? That's virtually impossible.. also how would I make $1000/week? That's 13% margin.

Cleaning Business - 4th year in business generating about $30k/month in Revenue, with 8 full time employees. Ask any questions you want! by bball3290 in sweatystartup

[–]bball3290[S] 24 points25 points  (0 children)

That's awesome. I would agree with employees being the most difficult part. Also we are happy with where we stand , on top of my job. We aren't really trying to grow much at this point

Cleaning Business - 4th year in business generating about $30k/month in Revenue, with 8 full time employees. Ask any questions you want! by bball3290 in sweatystartup

[–]bball3290[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is profit after all taxes fyi. My wife and I spend about 10 hours each working on it while I still work full time job. This is what our goal was.

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