 Where do you start if you're going to build a house cleaning business from the ground up? Where do you start? We're going to talk about that today. Hi, there. I'm Angela Brown, and this is Ask a House Cleaner. This is a show where you get to ask a house cleaning question, and I get to help you find an answer. Now, today's show is possible by House Call Pro. This is the number one service software for service professionals. And if you're just starting your business, I want you to seriously think about automating as many steps as you possibly can so that you yourself physically don't have to sit there and do the mental anguish of reinventing the wheel every single time. So House Call Pro will help you with a lot of the details that go in the background of your business, as far as the scheduling and the customer details, the upsells on the jobs, the price of the jobs, the one-click credit card processing, and all the stuff that runs the automations of your business admin tasks. It saves on average about 10 hours a week for the small business owner. So check it out at housecallpro.com forward slash Angela. All right. Today's episode is a very interesting topic from a brand new house cleaner that called in and asked this question. Hello, hi, I am Harman speaking with you. I'm looking forward to build my cleaner production industry. So can you help me, like give me tips, give me like advice, give me like how much I have to put in my budget, like how much money I need for like build my cleaner production industry in Louisiana or in either states, like they have annual range in the money and they have any tips you can give me for like make like a case study for for my project. Thank you. All right. So where do you start a house cleaning business? This is really interesting because there are so many different places. My suggestion is that you sit down with a pen and paper or sit down in front of a computer and start making a checklist. You can even use like keep Google keep, which is just a checklist format. And then check items off as you go because there are a whole lot of things that you're going to do. And then the more you know, the more you learn and then the more items go on your checklist. So you will never be there as far as achieving your business in the sense that you will have done all the things you need to do. There will always be something new that you can work on. Okay. So what do you start on and what should be your first focus? All right. So what we've done over at the Savvy Cleaner Learning Library is we have created a business from the ground up. And the reason we did it is this, we get a lot of questions where people have already built businesses and they find that they're running 20, 30 employees and they have a whole bunch of houses and they're traveling all over and they have cars and they have all these different things, but some things have fallen through the cracks. And it's things that either they didn't know that they were supposed to do or they're things that they oversided because it didn't seem like it was important at the time. So what we do is we start over from the very beginning and even if you already have an established business, it's a great place to start because you will see very quickly some of the things that is required and you'll say, oh yes, we've already done that. Okay, we'll check that off your list. Then you're going to see some things that you haven't done yet and you're going to say, well, I was waiting for a rainy day, but because you did not do that one thing, it's causing a lot of other problems or even worse. There's one or two little things that you could tweak that would save a lot of time in reinventing the wheel with these other steps that follow it. And so when you start looking at it as a system, like if I did this, it equals this, it equals this, it equals this, it's like setting up dominoes in a row. And if all the dominoes are set up correctly, then when you push one domino, everything else falls into place. And that's where the automation comes from. It's setting up a little series of systems that then automate themselves or are easy to hand off to an employee or a manager or a lead or somebody that's on your team. And so once you have the system set up, and that's where the biggest challenges lie, is in knowing what are the triggering events. So if I set this up today, it will save all of these tasks moving forward. And we have a lot of business owners that are just grinding it away and they're spending days and nights and they're not getting very much sleep. They're eating the wrong kinds of foods. They're super stressed out because they're trying to do all of these extra steps that are actually part of a simpler system. So at Savvy Cleaner, we walk you through piece by piece of all the different systems and we help you create those standard operating procedures. So it is a membership where we have ongoing training. We have ongoing group coaching where you can ask your questions and get those problems resolved. And then we also have Facebook groups that allow for you to go in and talk with other business owners that are going through some of the same things that you are that are either setting up your business or there are members in there that have been around for a while that can say, but if you do this, expect this. And they can give you advice to help prevent you from reinventing the wheel or learning by trial and error. So you don't have to make the same mistakes all over again. It's a great investment in your business if you're willing to spend the time. And I say, willing to spend the time, this is one of those little systems. So you can either spend all the time reinventing the wheel, doing all these weird crazy things because you think you have it all figured out, or you can come over to the Savvy Cleaner training learning hub and you can figure out what are the systems I need to set in place and then shortcut those things and template them and then outsource them so that it is easier for you as you move forward. Because running a business has so many different moving parts that if you as a solo business operator feel like you have to run all of those areas yourself, it's going to be exhausting and overwhelming. So where do you start? There's no one place to start, but if you were going to start, I would say start from the ground up and build a foundation that everything builds on top of. Because if you don't have a foundation, we know this from just regular architecture. If you don't have a very strong foundation that's been dug deep and wide and has the proper structure in place, when you build something on top of it, it falls through and it crumbles. You get sinkholes and you get shifting and altering of the ground and then the structure falls apart because it wasn't set up properly. So where do you start? You start at the very beginning. So we have lots of YouTube videos if free is your thing. So I don't want to discourage you and say you have to spend money. If free is your thing, we've got lots of videos on YouTube. We have a podcast, it's also free. There's a free book that I wrote that is on Amazon that you can download and read on any device with a free Kindle app. It's called How to Start Your Own House Cleaning Company. So there are a lot of free options for you. But if you want the structure and the design and the systems, come over to SavvyCleaner.com and we will walk you through all of those different elements so you can build an empire. 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