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You can buy books telling you what a low investment Wholesale NFL Jerseys Online , high growth opportunity residential house cleaning can be. We believe that the house cleaning's 50% per annum failure rate speaks for itself. It is an attractive industry, but it is the potential for limitless scale and profits from cleaning nice homes, not the misconception about low investment, which makes it attractive. Most certainly the industry does require a low level of investment relative to many specialty retail, restaurant or manufacturing industries, and it has fantastically greater potential for scale, but it is irresponsible for experts to tout prospects for high growth and profits based on an operating model of operating from home with a cell phone and a bucket.


We are not saying that entry into our industry requires investment. In fact, for those cleaning themselves, or employing just one or two others to clean with them Wholesale NFL Jerseys Free Shipping , it is possible to get into the industry with just a hundred bucks, and we have nothing against someone else taking such an approach. It's just that we don't consider the growth or profit potential for such endeavors to be interesting. Rather, we believe that (in addition to typically damaging the industry's price structure) such entrepreneurs really end up just buying themselves a job cleaning houses, a job they will weary of before their enterprise reaches anything remotely sufficient in scale to become financially interesting.


Think of any such an enterprise as being the equivalent of Alice, the Maid, of Brady Bunch fame. I can imagine that the Brady's paid her, not like an architect mind you but nevertheless, reasonably well. Even so, was she really in business Wholesale NFL Jerseys From China , or did she just have a job as a maid? What if she had bought herself a cell phone and dashed around the neighborhood during her lunch hours trying to line up work for herself and her sister for Saturdays-would that then have constituted a business? We like Alice just fine. It's just that we don't think of her as having been in business and, even when she worked for the Brady's, given her inability to scale, we didn't feel horribly threatened by her, as a competitor. If you intend to get into business for the cost of a bucket and start out by cleaning yourself, then imagine yourself as being Alice. If you are as committed and competent as Alice, have no further aspirations for growth and profits, and would be satisfied with her wages, insurance benefits and retirement plans Wholesale NFL Jerseys China , then the endeavor will be a success for you (as long as you find a family as nice as the Brady's).


I'm not trying to discourage you, but on the other hand we wouldn't want everyone just stumbling into our industry with their eyes closed, making a mess of the place. We dispute a lot of the hype being sold today--that a bunt through some miraculous metamorphosis results in a homerun, in the maid service ballpark. We already have enough companies in our industry bunting their brains out. If someone wants to start another maid service, let them bring their money and swing for the fence. To start a real scaleable maid service enterprise from scratch, expect to spend $50,000 (paying yourself zero) over the course of the first 12 to 18 months. Over that time, with some skillful management and a healthy dose of luck you likely will have passed operating break-even (not full payback of your investment), built a referral bank of 100 to 120 fantastic well-paying customers Wholesale NFL Jerseys , and gathered a troop of 8 to 10 exceptional, well-paid, well-trained, loyal employees. A foundation will have been established, and round two can begin.


It certainly can be done a lot more cheaply over a longer period, but really it comes down to what value you put on your own time. For Hanna and I, we were both investment bankers prior to embarking on this venture. So we weren't really willing to go slowly for three to five years, paying ourselves a pittance cleaning houses ourselves, whenever necessary Wholesale Jerseys Cheap , while we were waiting for the company to grow. I know some believe you should do some of the cleaning work yourself when you first start out, but we never resorted to becoming fill-ins, even though opportunities presented themselves almost daily. It wasn't a matter of not wanting to get our hands dirty, it's just that our hands were already quite full, managing the monster. Given the chance to do it over, we could avoid some of the mistakes we made then and could have spent less than we did, but fundamentally, we wouldn't now take any less brazen approach to growth, or quality of service.


If we had it to do again Wholesale Jerseys Online , as a first step, we would try much harder to locate and buy an unprofitable maid service-one with at least OK prices, a half dozen employees, and about 50 to 100 customers clustered as best they could be in several nice neighborhoods. The only problem with such an approach is that you have to be opportunistic about it, or you will grossly overpay. Before we started Denver Concierge, we looked and actually found one such company, but luckily we refused to pay the $100K being asked for it (the price should have been just $30K). We hadn't yet learned that for such a company, the involvement of a business broker in and of itself, makes a transaction at any reasonable price untenable.


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