You have to clean your air ducts sometime
I really started our cleaning contractor before the pandemic, and it wasn’t going well; There was too much competition, especially from Molly Maid franchisees, so the future looked grim, but surprisingly, the COVID pandemic was a shot in the arm for our business, because demand for deep cleaning and disinfecting grew, and competition dwindled… I started to quietly promote myself on social media, and friends and friends started discretely hiring myself and others to mask up and come clean their homes clean. I would make a beach house immaculate down to every nook and cranny, but there were still sites I could not reach. Since people were concerned about air quality, I realized that cleaning the outside of the air vents wasn’t nice enough; People needed to have full air duct cleaning done, so I started reaching out to other small contractor owners to form a partnership; When I was in a beach house that could sit to have the air duct cleaned out, I could supply the owners a contractor card for a local independent Heating and A/C tech. All of the Heating and A/C workers I spoke to loved the idea, but most of them didn’t offer myself and others anything in return. I guess our customers deserve to have clean air duct, but if I am going to hand out referrals I guess it’s legitimate to get something in return, right? Finally a single of the Heating and A/C contractors provided myself and others a “finders fee” and any contractor I generated I would get some currency for. This way all the people wins, the contractor, me, and our customers, who get clean air ducts and superior air quality.