Now, you opened your cleaning services company and decided what kind of services you are willing to provide. You have your web page is up and your advertising is running online and offline on the newspapers. You are by the phone and expecting customers to call you. However, the first thing comes first, the advice of your accountant and your insurance agent about your new company; its operations and business.

This is the best time to talk to your accountant regarding your taxes, workers compensation, that every aspect related to your company required by private and governmental organizations. It is also very important to talk to an insurance agent after your accountant. You have to have your insurance papers ready before planning to clean, such as office cleaning, after – post construction cleaning, carpet cleaning, window cleaning, etc. Why ? On a job site, an un-expectable dangerous situating might arise and somebody might be injured. In this case, the least papers you will need are your Insurance and Workers Compensation. In another case, you are trying to do your best to provide the best carpet cleaning service and/or hardwood floor installation, sanding and refinishing service to your customer. In case of damaging your customer's carpet, hardwood floor, etc. , you are going to need your insurance desperately.

Now, it is time to invest your machinery and supplies. On my opinion, there are 3 different ways to have machinery; such as, carpet cleaning, and/or vacuums for office cleaning. One, you can Buy, Second you can Lease, Third you can rent. As far as I know there are no other options. When it comes to cleaning supply, either you can go and buy based on your needs , from job to job, at your local supplies store or you can find a good competitive supplier of cleaning stuff, and buy in large quantities. Usually cleaning suppliers will have discount packages when you buy a lot.

Planning, it is now time to make yourself a shirt term plan. Planning is the heart of each business, if you don't do a good planning, you will more likely have problems in the later stage of your cleaning business. There are two types of planning, shirt term, and long term. I advise you to do your first planning shirt term and once your cleaning services business meet its shirt term plans, you can slowly go ahead and do more detailed and long term oriented planning. This is where you should see that your business is growing.

Conclusion;

You need to get your papers ready, you need to decide what kind of machinery and how you will have, and do your planning as soon as possible. Not to forget, in every business a hard work and knowledge is a must. If you want to include carpet wash services to your operations, the least stuff you need to know are the carpet types, chemicals, how to remove stains, and how to wash carpets. People say, Knowledge is the King. I improve this saying and changed to this, “Knowledge is the King, and a Hard work is a Must”. Even if you open a Laundromat you need to know what kind of laundry parts you need and where to order depending the brand name of your machinery; such as your ipso parts or wascomat parts etc. in case of your machine's failure.

On my next article, I am planning to write about Organizing, and hiring part of the cleaning business from my experiences.