My question is around the bond - if you're a cleaning business owner that subcontracts the cleans will a bond cover the subs, or will it only cover the business if a w-2 employee steals something on the job?
Best place to obtain said bond?
Thanks
Seems to be two types of leads:
- Direct Leads (prospective clients message your business specifically and you get charge)
- Open Leads (any business can reply to someone looking for a general quote from multiple providers)
Anyone using this? It seems Open Leads is a total waste of money? Why would I spend $25 to message someone when 3 other pros already did? I've done this several times and never got a reply back. What am I missing here?
I cant comment to anyonbody's post from my personal OR business account unless I pay over $100 a month for 'opportunity alerts'. Seems other people can't still reply to them however. Why?
wtf am I missing here?
Train (LIRR)?, uber, taxi?
Hey — I know there's a lot of controversy around this remote cleaning business model. There's a lot of self proclaimed 'gurus' out there teaching how to run this business that probably aren't. They might have built the backend and got a few customers and then decided it was too much of a headache to hire and manage cleaners and decided to just teach others how to do it instead.
I hired two cleaners and started running ads. Customers did start coming in and I started booking jobs, but my cleaners ended up not accepting them, or calling out sick, or whatever. This made me lose money on those leads (Google LSA) and in addition to that had to deal with annoyed customers.
I saw another post in here this morning about how good, reliable cleaners don't need or care about someone who manages a CRM, handles bookings, runs ads etc because they most likely have no issues getting booked without any of that stuff. How accurate is this?
And before you say "you're exploiting people off their labor" or whatever....I've had plenty of blue collar jobs in my day. I'm also prepared to put myself on the schedule and step in on weekends (I work a fulltime job M-F). So don't come at me with that nonsense please.
I want to hear from others who have started this kind of business — are you still doing it? did you give up? Are you thriving?
Cheers
What do you to in this situation? I've had two people in a row ask about deep cleaning only their kitchen, or only a single bathroom and nothing else in the home.
Hi, I 've spent the past few months building my backend for my cleaning business and have made a lot of progress. I've been shopping for insurance in tandem with everything else and have been running into issues with classification due to NY state labor laws and egregiously high premiums.
Anyone else here have this type of setup in NY state? I'd love to pick your brain to see how you got coverage and how much it was. Essentially they wont view me as a referral business, but more in line with a General Contractor, which has a higher risk profile and higher premiums.
Everyone I've spoken to in other states that uses contractors to do the work pays like $35 a month — the highest I heard was $90 a month. I'm coming in at $136/ month through Simply Business but I've spoken to local insurance companies that said that policy probably isn't correct and that something like this would run $30K a year!
Stuck and not sure what to do. I'm onboarding people right now and don't want to spend money on ads until this is sorted.
Cheers!