Spring season is a long waited season for some parts of the country. It is the season after winter, which is the best time for all of us to do a thorough cleaning of houses and living spaces in order to get rid of all the dust, soil and build-up that has collected over the winter months.
Springtime can also be a good time to rake in some extra cash for your cleaning service business. You can promote a special “spring cleaning” service. For example, this is the best opportunity to remind your residential and commercial customers that you offer carpet spotting and carpet cleaning services.
This is can work out to your advantage if your cleaning business operates in an area of the country where the long winter has caused snow, sand and ice melt to be tucked in (and ground in) to building or residential carpets. Hard wood floors may also have suffered throughout the winter months – with sand and ice melt coming in off shoes and boots. This is now the perfect time to get everything sparkling clean, and shiny floors make a great impression.
Alternatively, some cleaning services offers “spot cleaning” services for the inside windows because customers often ignore windows throughout the winter. Throughout the long winter months, a building’s or apartment’s windows may have accumulated a build up from melting snow, dust, dirt and other debris. The season of spring is a great time to pitch your window cleaning services – both inside and out.
As an added bonus, don’t forget to offer to clean window screens.
Some residential homes and offices leave screens on the windows during the winter months, so these will also need to be cleaned. You can ask for a separate charge from the window washing price, or throw it in as a special bonus when they avail of your spring cleaning package.
In addition to carpets, floors and windows, spring is also the perfect time to remind your clients that you can deep-clean microwaves, refrigerators, and ovens. Always bear in mind and remember that in a commercial setting, you should post the date when you last cleared out the inside of a refrigerator, and remind the owners that you will toss out any old food, containers, or half eaten sandwiches left inside. Don’t let your customer call the day after you cleaned their refrigerator and ask you what happened to their lunch!
Still on the spring cleaning streak…
* Most home owners and office workers enjoy barbeques during the warmer months. Barbeque grills should also be thoroughly cleaned at least once per year, so remind your clients that this is one messy job you can handle for them.
* Conference rooms or meeting areas may also have hardwood tables that are due for a good polish. This may already be part of your regular cleaning routine… but if not, now is a good time to remind your clients that those tables are looking a little dull and are in need of some good polishing.
* Always check if your customers have any upholstered couches or chairs, spring is the best time to offer upholstery cleaning. You can make a minimal charge of around $5.00 for standard office chairs, and around $7.00 per linear foot for fabric couches. These small appliances you may multiply that by the number of chairs and couches in the office, that’s quite a tidy profit.
Here’s an important tip: most of your clients may not even be aware of all the special services that you provide, so give them a call or put together a flyer and pop it in with your next invoice or newsletter.
Affordable Spring Cleaning Service for $100 A Day
If you don’t have a cleaning service company, don’t fret. There are also ways for an individual to make some profit out of everyone’s compulsion for spring cleaning. In fact, business is so good that you can target to make $100 a day on a personal spring cleaning quest.
How do you do that?
All you have to do is talk to your friends, neighbors, and family about taking care of their spring cleaning needs. Because they know you, they will feel assured that you will do a great job on whatever it is that they need done. Most people also feel more comfortable about letting someone they know into their homes, rather than complete strangers.
And at the end of the day, when you do a great job, they will most likely tell their friends and their family about you. Before you know it you are going to be getting phone calls because these individuals are going to duplicate the same spring cleaning feat for them as well.
But don’t just be content with spring cleaning. While spring does have a great ring to it, providng a great cleaning service this season would already pave the way for you having more customers in the months to come.
Prepare a flyer or a business card with your contact details and you will most likely have people calling you all year round to take care of their cleaning needs. Some of them may decide in the winter that they need their attic cleaned or their basement cleaned. They might as well decide this coming summer that they have a storage building that needs to be cleared out.
No matter what it is, you can earn and make at least $100 every single day that you go around doing cleaning service work. Always remember that this is a great job and quiate possibly a great source of living for you.
If you render your cleaning services 5 days per week, you have easily made $500 for that week… and that does not include tips and repeat cleaning requests from customers. Indeed, there is much to be gained from spring cleaning!
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