You have to clean your air ducts sometime
I entirely started our cleaning business before the pandemic, & it wasn’t going well.
There was too much competition, especially from Molly Maid franchisees, so the future looked grim.
Surprisingly, the COVID pandemic was a shot in the arm for our business, because demand for deep cleaning & disinfecting grew, & competition dwindled! I started to quietly promote myself on social media, & friends & neighbors started discretely hiring me to mask up & come clean their homes clean. I would make a home immaculate down to every nook & cranny, however there were still sites I could not reach. Since people were distraught about air quality, I realized that cleaning the outside of the air vents wasn’t enjoyable enough, however people needed to have full HVAC duct cleaning done, so I started reaching out to other small business owners to form a partnership, then when I was in a home that could rest to have the HVAC duct cleaned out, I could give the owners a business card for a local independent Heating, Ventilation, & A/C tech, all of the Heating, Ventilation, & A/C workers I spoke to loved the idea, however most of them didn’t offer me anything in return. I guess our purchasers deserve to have clean HVAC duct, however if I am going to hand out referrals I guess it’s fair to get something in return, right? Finally one of the Heating, Ventilation, & A/C dealers gave me a “finders fee” & any business I generated I would get some cash for. This way everyone wins, the dealer, me, & our purchasers, who get clean air ducts & superior air quality.