fitnessguy
Jun 29, 2012, 11:48 AM
Hi All,
A little about myself:
I work full time during the days and have always had an entrepreneurial spirit and lately I've been thinking about starting a small to medium sized office cleaning service because I love to clean and it's relatively cheap to start on a small scale. I've done it before, but it never grew to the size that I wanted it to and I have no sales experience. Now years later I want to try again. Most of my experience is in the legal and fitness industries, so running my own company and growing it is going to be trial and error for me. Ultimately I would like to get the cleaning business going, expand it, start an online personal training/nutrition website and become more involved in fitness and bodybuilding, quit my day job and live a life of leisure (just kidding). Anyway my questions are:
Other than cold calling what other ways should I advertise the biz? Before I used to get a local paper and cold call or walk around with flyers and meet face to face. I'll still do that, but is there any other methods?
Is there a way of getting a list of businesses other than the local paper?
Would magnets for the car work? I have two cars and the beat up bucket is going to be used for the cleaning.
Am I being unrealistic about starting it on the side while working full time? Before it seemed easier for some reason.
I'll have other questions I'm sure. Stringer come out wherever you are...
Thanks in advance.
fitnessguy
A little about myself:
I work full time during the days and have always had an entrepreneurial spirit and lately I've been thinking about starting a small to medium sized office cleaning service because I love to clean and it's relatively cheap to start on a small scale. I've done it before, but it never grew to the size that I wanted it to and I have no sales experience. Now years later I want to try again. Most of my experience is in the legal and fitness industries, so running my own company and growing it is going to be trial and error for me. Ultimately I would like to get the cleaning business going, expand it, start an online personal training/nutrition website and become more involved in fitness and bodybuilding, quit my day job and live a life of leisure (just kidding). Anyway my questions are:
Other than cold calling what other ways should I advertise the biz? Before I used to get a local paper and cold call or walk around with flyers and meet face to face. I'll still do that, but is there any other methods?
Is there a way of getting a list of businesses other than the local paper?
Would magnets for the car work? I have two cars and the beat up bucket is going to be used for the cleaning.
Am I being unrealistic about starting it on the side while working full time? Before it seemed easier for some reason.
I'll have other questions I'm sure. Stringer come out wherever you are...
Thanks in advance.
fitnessguy