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Starting my own business - Cleaning Services?

I have decided to go back to school and do not believe that I will be able to continue my full time day job and be a successful student. One idea that I have come up with is starting my own business. The business that I think will work the best with my schedule would be a commercial cleaning service. I'd like to find maybe 4 companies that I can clean once or twice a week in the evenings. Do any of you have any suggestions or have experience in this industry? I'd love any advice you could give me. Thank you I completed high school with a 3.4 gpa in 2001 and I am only just now looking into going to college.

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1. I don't have any experience personally, but I knew a couple different people that juggled a cleaning service, along with other jobs. So I don't see why you can't do it with school... Good luck...
2. You didn't say what school you were dropping out of - college? or is it high school? If it is high school - I would highly suggest you NOT do it. Stay with it until you finish. Most likely that is less than 4 years! I would also suggest you take a class in starting your own business BEFORE actually doing it. We have a community college that offers these courses - and sometimes they are offered through the Small Business Association. It is a wealth of info that you just don't think about. Also consider that in cleaning- you will be dealing with a lot of nasty chemicals. Consider environmentally friendly products. Email me privately and I will tell you where to find them. Good luck.
3. You should list it on flugpo.com I hope this helps....good luck!
4. ---------------------- Firstly, if you have no experience in the commercial cleaning business, I'd advise that you work in one for the next six months or so doing everything possible toi get the necessary work experience that you'll need to understand and run a cleaning service profitably. If this is your first business venture, I would strongly recommend that you talk to a business counselor before you do anything especially spend money. I'd call the local office of SCORE (go to http://www.score.org and input your zip code to find the chapter nearest you), the advice is FREE. Ask for someone who has a background in cleaning services and they'll try their best to match you with the right counselor. The counselor at SCORE will most likely advise you to write a business plan which is very good advice because it will force you to dig out all of the start up details and the costs of starting a cleaning service and force you to also understand all of the aspects of this business including the customers you'll concentrate on (your market ) and how you'll get them to find out and want to use your services. You also have to have the right state registration, the right zoning, the right city and county licenses and permits. You also have to worry about the normal business planning and management issues related to starting up any business. Take a look and read some of the articles at: http://www.ychange.com/small-business-consulting-articles.html especially the ones about a business plan and starting a business. Also try their Blog and their Bulletin Board. Hope this helped.
5. depending on how fast you want to graduate, i would keep a job and go to a community college in the evening. most business fail - and if you are paying for college yourself, it's better to have a steady job than a potential job that you have no idea if it will work or not. so instead of going to work in the evenings, go to school in the evenings.