Start a Profitable Blind Cleaning Business

Blind cleaning is one chore that few people have the patience or equipment to do themselves. Yet, it is something that must be performed on a regular basis if you want to keep your home looking good. Most people hate cleaning blinds in their homes and at commercial establishments as well – this is to your benefit. You can provide a service that others do not like doing and generally don’t do well.

If your blind cleaning business can serve a lot of customers quickly and do a good job, your business is going to see success very rapidly and you will build good repeat business.

With an investment ranging anywhere from $2,000 to $10,000, your blind cleaning business could successfully take off. All you need is some cleaning equipment, dedication and proactive efforts to get people to hire you to clean their window blinds. With a blind cleaning business, you could easily be earning $20 – $30 per hour. If, alternatively, you wish to charge by the number of blinds cleaned, you could charge up to $15 per blind.

Let us look at the two operating modes of a blind cleaning business:

1. You could go to customers’ homes or offices, remove the blinds and take them to your cleaning center, bring them back to your customers and install them in the respective locations. This is only advisable in special circumstances, however, as it involves a lot more work and is rarely worth the added trouble.

2. This is a better way of operating a blind cleaning business and we’ll see why below.

Buy a cube van or an enclosed trailer to offer your blind cleaning services. What you would ideally do is mount an ultrasound cleaning tank on the back of the truck or the trailer and offer on-site cleaning anywhere.

Think your blind cleaning business is starting to shape up? Well, here’s another good reason why you should operate it as a mobile operation. Think of the amount of time you would save while cleaning window blinds on-site, compared to going to one customer at a time, going back to your cleaning location and then returning it to the customer. By taking the first route of operating your blind cleaning business, you’d not only waste a lot of time, but it would also cost you more – you’ll need more gas for the truck, expensive blind cleaning equipment, regular maintenance of the equipment, etc. And, we still haven’t mentioned the opportunity cost that saving time could help you to profit from. Besides, when you’re a mobile business, a prospective customer could spot you anytime from their window and call you to clean their window blinds. You could advertise your business for free, and your entire community can always get your name and phone number from the advertisement on your truck.

The other ways to promote your blind cleaning business is to advertise using several of the following options.

• Classified ads in the most popular local newspapers

• Inserting leaflets in the newspapers

• Featured advertisements in telephone directories

• Community bulletin boards and web forums (geo-targeted forums)

• A door-to-door flyer campaign.

The cleaning equipment needed, depending on how you plan to operate your blind cleaning business, comes in a variety of forms. So, once you’ve decided how you want to take your blind cleaning business off the ground, you can check with equipment dealers in your city. To make the most money from your blind cleaning business, try to negotiate a good deal with corporate offices – you can even enter into long-term contracts to ensure that every month, or every 2-3 months, your blind cleaning business has a set amount of revenue flowing in. Having several clients in one location like an office building can really boost profits by saving you a great deal of time.

Still think you’re not ready? Well, that’s easy to tackle. There are a lot of online training programs to help you set up a successful blind cleaning business; all you need to do is search, learn, execute, succeed and become the preferred blind cleaning company in your city.