im needing help as i am wanting to start my own business and dont no how?

Question

i am wanting to start my own cleaning business would anyone know what i need to get started

Answer 1

It's not really difficult!
Buy a copy of Exchange and Mart it comes out every week. go to the Business section, you can buy a ready made one for about £60, this includes registration with Co House.
Open an account with your bank, in the Co name.
Keep all reciepts and record all expences, including cost of employing people, you will need their P45 etc and sort all that out by a visit to Inland Revenue.
You can sort out the accounting bit later.
Thats all it boils down to really to get started, plus of course customers!
There seems rather a lot of cleaning firms on the go at the moment, and I assume you know how it works?
The workers get around minimum wage, to get the workers you need to pay a bit above that or you wont get workers. Then you charge a competitive price for supplying the workers and completing the job in hand. No need to be telling you this because if you dont know that already you shouldnt be starting.
Whatever, good luck to you, and to get started you need next to nothing.
Now having typed all that out, I see you may be asking about 'Self Employed' in which case a visit to In Rev will sort that out, but you will of course need a checkable UK tax record, for the past 5 years,before they will allow you to become self employed..

Answer 2

I assume you mean a house and office cleaning.
You need first to recruit one or two people who will work with or for you, or you could stay just working alone.
Prepare a 'flier' - a leaflet you can do on a computer- saying what you do and hand deliver it to offices in the area. You could also deliver it to houses in the area.
Look at the adverts in the local papers, people advertising for a cleaner to come in for a few hours a week.
Once you start employing people you could give your business a name such as Cleaning Angels or just Home and Office Cleaners.
It would be worth while joining your local Chamber of Commerce; there you can get plenty of free advice and make contact with many business people who employ office cleaners.
And good luck.

Look at the cards displayed in your local post offices and newsagents where people needing cleaners often post their requirements.
If you can afford it, take a small advert in the local newspaper.

Answer 3

I am wanting to do the same thing!!! I am planning to put a card up in the newspaper shop and word of mouth. the things that i am thinking of is: 1) use the persons cleaning stuff - or my own and charge a tad more! 2) liability insurance- incase i drop cleaning products on their carpet! - from the research I have done - it is best to go around the house and work out what they want done - ie: floor cleaned/moped, windows cleaned etc and then work out how long it will take - then quote them for that duration - then if it is quicker then thats a bonus to you and if it takes longer then they pay no more - you just work quicker next time!! i have been self employed before and tax returns are really easy! honest!!! also you can claim for mileage and cleaning equip etc so its not that frightening being self employed - have a word with your tax office they run free courses on being self employed - its really motivating - then you can make your mind up if it is for you or not! Good Luck from a fellow cleaner (hopefully!!!!) xx

Answer 4

you'll need to advertise in your local newspaper or free papers in your area. You could get a dba to name your company. Some time after you get on your feet you should start thinking about getting some kind of commercial liability insurance.( customers love it when they know they wont have to worry about their belongings) Word of mouth is the best advertisement so do a great job and it will be rewarded. If you are a minority or a woman you can call your local chamber of commerce and possibly get a grant to start your business! I dont have to get into all the tools you'll need cause of coarse you know. You will learn as you go along.

Good luck with it and god bless!

Answer 5

Hi...If you are a regular user of the internet, you would have heard about the concept of home working. This is an exiting one as you can earn money while at home and it is indeed true! Even if you do not know much about the computers and know only the basics you can still do a lot of jobs. You will find many types of jobs both technical and non-technical.Just take a look at the below link to learn What is technical and non-technical.
All the best

Answer 6

hello there;

dont hold this as gospel but from what i remember from uni is that you have to register with 'companies house' in order to start a business. Here is where you decide a company name e.t.c so i would maybe start there...look at there website.

if it was me i would then get a business manager and s/he will be able to guide you from there.

hope that helps

angelo

Answer 7

Getting Registred......

ok, assuming you want to go self employed, you need to register as self employed with the Inland Revenue, this can be done by going to www.hmrc.gov.uk and sticking "CWF1" in their search bar. This is the form you need to print and send off to them within 3 months of the end of the month in which you start trading, ie if you started in October 2007, it needs to be filed with them by the end of Jan 08, otherwise they will fine you £100.

also you will need to pay class 2 national insurance which if currently £2.20 a week until 5th April 2008, this can be setup by Direct Debit once you CWF1 form has been processed.

now having done this, you will now be setup on the Inland Revenues system as being self employed and you will now receive a tax return on 6th April 2008.

if your looking to employ someone then you need to setup a PAYE scheme in order to deduct taxes and national insurance from your employees and pay it over to the Inland Revenue on your behalf. there is a whole section on the website mentioned above that can help you get this setup.

thats the legal stuff sorted.

Getting Business....

well depends on what clients you want. do you want private homes? business premises (offices etc..), or public places like pubs, clubs etc....

depending on who you want to target depends on your advertising, obviously advertising in local shops, newspapers etc.. will get you private homes, but if you want business or pubs etc.. then you will need to produce a leaflet to be delivered to them, approach them by telephone or even write a letter to a whole bunch to potential clients in order to get their business. advertise in the yellow pages or try finding out about trade magazines for particular trades, say a monthly pub magazine and put an ad in their.

I assume you will know what equipment you will need so wont go into that.

one thing I would get, is public liability insurance or something similar to protect yourself against claims for injury or broken stuff from your clients.

hope this helps

Answer 8

Check out www.businesslink.gov.uk . We're in the process of setting up our own business, and I have found this website invaluable. x

Answer 9

Plastic bags, a scooper, a bottle for fresh water. And insurance on the dogs in case something happens while you are walking them.

Answer 10

Make up flyers detailing your services , rates and phone number .
Hand them out in the neighborhoods you want to work .

Good Luck !

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