| Opening a carpet cleaning business is a great way to | | | | that require cleaning more frequently. The equipment |
| earn money as your own boss. This is a relatively | | | | needed to clean both residential and commercial |
| simple business to start, with low overhead, and little | | | | locations are not much different and most carpet |
| experience required. Start up costs can be minimal, if | | | | cleaning services will routinely take care of both |
| you shop around. Additionally, there is a steady | | | | types of clients. |
| market for quality work. | | | | Advertising will be an expense worth spending some |
| Most carpet cleaning equipment can be purchased for | | | | money on. Word of mouth can be counted on locally, |
| around two thousand dollars. If you already own a | | | | but if you want to cover a wider area than your |
| vehicle that will carry your equipment, then you are | | | | own neighborhood, you will need to invest in some |
| on your way. Researching shampoo machines and | | | | advertising. Yellow pages business prints and local |
| other equipment can be done easily on the Internet, | | | | billboards will be a great place to start. Both of these |
| as there are many web sites dedicated to carpet | | | | options will let you be known to a great many people |
| cleaning supplies. | | | | and will not be initially expensive. |
| Carpet cleaning equipment is getting revolutionized, | | | | Going to businesses with carpets and inquiring the |
| much like other industries. Newer and more powerful | | | | manager about the carpet cleaning service he |
| shampooing machines are available online. There are | | | | employs is also a good start. Remember not to |
| also better shampoos and better drying systems | | | | undersell yourself. Always dress professionally on |
| that will leave the carpet cleaner longer. Customers | | | | these occasions and conduct yourself in a |
| will pay for quality, not for someone to have to | | | | professional manner. Most managers are continually |
| come back two or three weeks later. You can even | | | | looking for ways to decrease their expenses and if |
| get machines that mount to a truck and are more | | | | your services are less expensive than someone |
| powerful than the portable kind. | | | | else's, you may indeed get the job. |
| As with any small business, you will need to research | | | | While researching the web for supplies and |
| licenses for your area for your carpet cleaning | | | | equipment, do a little research on Internet advertising |
| business. Check state and local governments to make | | | | too. More and more people are looking local services |
| sure you will not need permits or licenses. Some | | | | and businesses up on the Internet and it is beneficial |
| areas require that companies who do interior work | | | | to be listed in local directories. There are also the |
| be bonded as well. You will need to make sure you | | | | yellow pages online, which is a useful resource to be |
| have all of your legal requirements met when you | | | | listed in as well. |
| start your business. | | | | One thing about starting a carpet cleaning business |
| Now you will need to choose which type of carpet | | | | that you will have to remember is that it is not a |
| cleaning services you are going to offer. Typically, | | | | glamorous one. Anytime you clean something; you |
| households will not have their carpets cleaned more | | | | usually end up getting dirty. However, if you don't |
| than three or four times a year, if that often. You | | | | mind the dirt, you will see a career of fulfillment. |
| will have to grow a large residential clientele list if this | | | | Rooms will literally transform just by cleaning the |
| is the sole direction you wish to go. | | | | carpet. That fact in it self is a selling point to gleam |
| Also there are the retail and commercial businesses | | | | over. |