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@ahhh I'm in the US and just starting out in a lower cost of living area. Other FB groups I'm a part of: The commercial cleaners forum, janitorial business mastermind, cleaning quotes residential and commercial. I'm a part of a few other residential groups but it sounds like you're just focusing...

@liamdude5 I'd say about 5% of my customers are like this. Ironically my first customer was also like what you described

@ahhh Not sure if you are a part of any cleaning business owner facebook groups but I'm a part of about 10 of them and they are really helpful. "Zenmaid mastermind" and launch27 domination" to name a couple. There are also a lot of commercial/janitorial groups as well

@kaynic I own 2 Robotic mowers and love them! They aren't able to do all areas of my yard so I still have to do a bit of push mowing and of course edging. Neither one is super smart and 1 can be printer-level frustrating at times. I know this is not helping you feel better but I would highly...

@613jono Not really, the margins with employees is usually 15-25%. From what I've heard the 15% is about what franchises make, larger local companies make around 20, maybe a bit more. Then smaller local companies are around 25%, maybe more. I didn't have an office or any office staff so my...

@roostercogburn There was an event through my Chamber of Commerce that helped early stage businesses. A part of that wad a presentation in front of 150ish people. One of the people attending lived in 1 community and used to live in the other so she was close with both. Unrelated, but I also...

@silvergreyeagle Hiring wasn't going well and I didn't want to clean for the next 30 years so it was time to move on. I'm a business development officer for a credit union now

@rls I never did mu h on nextdoor but I've heard it can be very useful. I forgot to mention local Facebook groups but I never had much success there. For Craigslist I only received requests for topless cleaning or naked cleaning...so nothing there either. Although I'm a man so it probably...

@proverbs31an I think my suggestion was something pretty high too but like I said it never actually went high. I'd say give it a try and see how much they actually charge you. Even if it costs 50 per lead and you close 50% of them it costs you $100 to get a client. For a move in/out clean...

@proverbs31an I think about 25 per lead but it was literally always $16 because the competition doesn't invest too much in it in my area.

@jayjaydee Google my business has helped some with my service business. Google Local Services ads is REALLY effective and absolutely worth the investment.

@leclaireroger I tried both. In my experience, employees were really flaky and contractors were really really flaky. So I focused my on employees

Google Local Services: This was by far my favorite method. Cost per lead was $16 (depends on your city and how competitive it is). I would close probably around 50-60% of leads. I've done phone and messaging leads and closed 0 leads from messaging so I turned that function off for the ads...

I recently hired someone for tree trimming and this was my experience with conpanies. I reached out to 6ish companies for quotes knowing not all would respond. Person 1 responded quickly and came out when he said he would. He quoted what I thought was a fair price for the job. Person 2...