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Inside the Janitorial Business: How to Start from Scratch and Succeed in Professional Cleaning

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This book covers every aspect you need to know about starting a business, even if you know nothing to start with. It was my bible in starting from scratch,with no previous business experiance, a home based janitorial business that has grown to over one million in revenews and 100 employees in five years. A must read and have for referance as you grow.

If you thinking about entering the professional cleaning industry but are unsure of how to start. This is book is where to start! Estimating, bidding, taxes, employees, sample forms and sample business letter's are included. I have found that most books don't live up to there reviews. I found this book to be the exception.

This is an excellent book that will take you from the planning stages and well past the initial startup. It gives a valuable outline of the many obstacles you will face as well as offering excellent advice on every aspect of the business. I will refer back to it for years to come.

I had never performed nor bid for commercial maintenance work and this book helped tremendously. The author has obviously been "in the trenches" and explains real-world solutions and answers to real-world situations and questions - not just theory! In fact, although the book (which I refer to as "the bible") advises against it, I recently started out by landing a nice 30,000 square foot job with a competitive bid (arrived at by using the book's extensive methods for bidding). Well worth every penny! The only negative point one might consider is that the latest revision was published in 1989 so it's a bit old, but one can easily extrapolate and infer to make up for that.