Laura Jorstad, Melinda Morse

How to Start a Home-Based Housecleaning Business

* Organize Your Business * Get Clients And Referrals * Set Rates And Services * Understand Customer Needs * Bill And Renew Contracts * Offer "Green" Cleaning Options

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explains how to get started, develop a service manual, screen clients, serve customers, select cleaning products, learn from the competition, set up a home office, how to use the Internet to grow your business and more.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot
• 3rd Edition
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 191mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 402g
• ISBN-13: 9780762750146
• ISBN-10: 0762750146
• Artikelnr.: 25906994

Autorenporträt

Laura Jorstad is a freelance writer and editor. Melinda Morse started a successful housecleaning business in 1994 to help pay for graduate school. She has since earned a Ph.D., expanded her business, and launched a writing career.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
 
1. Considering a Home-Based Housecleaning Business
2. Getting Started I: The Legalities
3. Getting Started II: Getting Your Business off the Ground
4. How to Plan and Develop a Service Manual
5. How to Screen Clients
6. Cleaning 101
7. Understanding and Serving Customers
8. Setting up the Home Office
9. Record Keeping
10. Taxes
11. Insurance and Bonding
12. Advertising
13. When Bad Things Happen to Good Housecleaners
14. Becoming and Employer