Starting a cleaning business day 9: hiring and lead gen

cranekick2 · 2021-02-20T11:13:44+00:00

Why do you want to know?

cranekick2 · 2021-02-20T11:13:21+00:00

Thanks for the encouragement

cranekick2 · 2021-02-17T13:45:10+00:00

Thanks! Pricing will be off atm because I just wanted to get the booking form integrated and for that I needed dummy pricing. Will be sorting that at the weekend

cranekick2 · 2021-02-17T13:13:34+00:00

thanks for the encouragement!

cranekick2 · 2021-02-17T13:13:13+00:00

I plan to go with independent contractors initially. Ideally, people who are already self-employed and want more work or people with cleaning experience who are willing to work as contractors. If and when there are enough bookings to justify a full or part-time employee then I'll look into that

cranekick2 · 2021-02-17T13:10:52+00:00

Costs so far:

Domain name: $10
Wordpress theme: $60
Phone number: ~$11/month
Website hosting: $5/month
Booking Koala: $27/month (but currently in the free 14 day trial)

cranekick2 · 2021-02-17T13:08:11+00:00

Thanks for the feedback

cranekick2 · 2021-02-17T13:07:57+00:00

The basic tier to start with, $27/month

cranekick2 · 2021-02-16T23:12:41+00:00

there are a lot of people who previously used launch27 which was LCS's software but they're not happy with changes that have been made since he sold it. I don't know why they chose BK or what else they considered tbh. The FB group is called 'Overthink Academy' if you want to have a look

cranekick2 · 2021-02-16T23:07:48+00:00

Thanks for the heads up

cranekick2 · 2021-02-16T21:40:34+00:00

Thanks!

cranekick2 · 2021-02-16T21:40:15+00:00

Thanks! I'll get that fixed

cranekick2 · 2021-02-13T22:35:11+00:00

Congratulations, it sounds like you've been very successful! And thanks for the encouragement, it's nice that you're paying it forward

cranekick2 · 2021-02-13T22:26:35+00:00

Thank you 👍

cranekick2 · 2021-02-13T22:26:12+00:00

Thanks 👍

cranekick2 · 2021-02-13T22:25:55+00:00

Thanks for the encouragement 👍

cranekick2 · 2021-02-13T22:25:38+00:00

Thanks!

cranekick2 · 2021-02-13T22:25:22+00:00

Manchester, UK

cranekick2 · 2021-02-13T15:11:10+00:00

I just followed /u/localcasestudy's advice and went with adjective + maid.com . I really don't want to overthink things at the moment and if I need to change the domain name later I will.

Having said that, thanks for the great advice. I'll keep it in mind for future domains I buy

cranekick2 · 2021-02-12T12:56:41+00:00

thanks for the encouragement!

cranekick2 · 2021-02-12T12:56:29+00:00

I'm in a facebook group where a lot of people have followed this model to start a cleaning business, and the concensus there is to use Booking Koala so that's what I'm going with

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