How do you compete with other house cleaners?
That's an excellent question and we're going to talk about that today.
Hi there, I'm Angela Brown, and this is Ask a House Cleaner.
This is a show where you get to ask a house cleaning question,
and I get to help you find an answer.
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On to today's show, which is a question from a woman who wants to know this.
Speaker 2: I Angela, I have a question for you.
I have friends who cleans like me, but they always tell me they do five, six houses a
day, I can barely do three houses, how can that is possible?
Angela Brown: Okay, so you are wanting to, if I understand correctly, you're wanting
to compete with other house cleaners.
All right that's not going to happen.
First and foremost what you need to realize is that you are your own business.
And you work at your own pace, and you earn your own money, and you pay your own bills.
For you to try to compete with another house cleaner, or another series of house cleaners
who have a different business model then you, it's going to be difficult, because we don't
know exactly what they're doing, and we don't know the ins and outs
of the houses that they're cleaning.
Now, I know it's easy to say, "Well they're cleaning five houses, and I'm only cleaning
three, what am I doing wrong?"
You're probably not doing anything wrong at all.
If you're cleaning three houses in a day, you're doing something right,
that is something awesome.
Okay, now first and foremost, you have to understand that a lot of house cleaners just
like everyone else, sometimes stretch the stories just a little bit.
If it's a single house cleaner, and they're cleaning five houses in a day, really?
Really?
Because if you clean houses, and you're working from sun-up till sun-down, and you're only
doing three houses, you kind of know, that might be a little bit of a fib.
All right, now they might have a team.
If there are two or three people, it is possible that they could do five houses
in the course of a day.
Maybe they were skipping some information that they were sharing with you.
Another thing we have to consider is not all houses are equal, right?
I live in a neighborhood where houses range from about 1600 square feet, all the way up
to 8800 square feet.
At the beginning of the neighborhood, there are these little ranch style homes, and then
as you go back to the back of the neighborhood, the houses get bigger, and bigger, and bigger,
and they have basements to them, and they're just much, much larger homes.
It's the same neighborhood.
Even if they're cleaning houses nearby to you, and the houses are kind of the same,
houses are hugely different even in the same neighborhood, so are they cleaning five houses
that are 1600 square feet, or are they cleaning five houses that are 8800 square feet?
Because you and I can both do the math on that, and go like, "Hmm, I don't think so."
Right?
Then it depends on what are the customers having them do when they're inside the house?
For example, we had a customer, and all they wanted us to do was to sweep and mop the floors,
that's it.
They had lots of hardwood, and they vacuumed all their own carpets, and they cleaned the
rest of their house, and they did the bathrooms,
and they did everything else, except sweeping and mopping.
To go to that house, and only do the sweeping and mopping, it would be irresponsible to
say we cleaned their whole house during a certain period of time, when really all we
did was sweep and mop the floors.
If you're comparing yourself with other house cleaners, which I recommend you not doing,
just don't do that, if you are the business owner, and you have other house cleaners that
are under your care, you can compare them, because you've trained them the same way.
You're using the same supplies, you're using the same system, you have the same customers,
and you can take a person from here to this house, and then a person from here to this
house, and they can clean the same area, and then you can compare the times.
So if somebody's doing five houses in the course of a day, and you're only able to do
three, chances are the houses they're cleaning are in better condition, or they are cleaner,
or they are better maintained, or it's more of a regular cleaning than what you're doing.
I'm not saying it's impossible to do five houses in a day, but it sounds like we're
missing a lot of information there.
First and foremost, don't compare yourself with other house cleaners, because that will
make you crazy.
Then when they tell you how much money they're making, that will also make you crazy, because
like I said, sometimes there's a tendency to stretch things a little bit.
There's no need to compare yourself with anyone else, you're your own business owner, and
like I said, you have your own rules, and your own systems, and your own way of doing
things, and you earn your own money, and you pay your own bills.
It's easy to get caught up in all the hype of what other people are doing, but don't
do that, just say, "Hey, keep your nose to the grindstone, this is my business, I'm doing
the best I can.
I'm making a good living for myself.
That's all that matters."
Don't compare, don't, it will make you crazy, I'm not kidding you.
All righty, that's my two cents for today.
Until we meet again,
leave the world a cleaner place then when you found it.
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