How Start Your Own Janitorial Services Business

There are two ways to start your own janitorial services
business – the easy way and the hard way.

It probably won’t be a surprise to you that we think buying
a Stratus
Building Solutions franchise is the easy way. You’re reading
this on the Stratus blog, after all. But we think we have a strong case to
make that if you want your own cleaning business, the best strategy by far is
to become a Stratus Building Solutions franchise owner.

True, we really shouldn’t suggest that
it’s easy to become a Stratus Building
Solutions franchise owner. Running any business is hard work. But we do think
Stratus makes it easier, far easier, to be a
business owner.

Here’s why, and how you can become a Stratus Building Solutions
franchise owner.

Why Stratus is worth looking
at. When you run a cleaning business, you aren’t only
cleaning. If you’re starting out, you may be the one doing all, most or at
least some of the cleaning. But even if you’re doing all the cleaning, you’re
also hopefully growing your business by constantly finding and adding new
clients. Which means that eventually you’re hiring employees because you
can’t clean everything on your own. Eventually, you aren’t cleaning anything
because you’re running your business.

That’s the dream.

But that’s hard to achieve on your own. Often what happens, when
you start a cleaning business on your own, you’re working so hard on cleaning
commercial offices or residential homes that you never have time to grow your
business – because during your precious down time, like after your kids have
gone to bed, you’re sending out invoices to clients who haven’t paid you.
You’re ordering cleaning supplies online. You’re paying bills, like
insurance, or maybe you aren’t doing that, and you’re working uninsured or
underinsured.

Starting a cleaning business on your own, without any support, can
be a stressful life.

What Stratus does is take away the time-consuming work like
invoicing and chasing down invoices and marketing your business, which can be
mentally exhausting to work on when you’re physically exhausted. In fact,
every Stratus Building Solutions franchise owner is guaranteed to receive
clients. You can find them on your own, too, if you want, but if that’s not
what you want to do, you don’t have to. Stratus will take care of that for
you.

Either way, just being part of Stratus Building Solutions should
make it far easier to find clients. When you’re in charge of making sure an
office building is clean, a car dealership, or any commercial building,
managers tend to not hire some random cleaner who isn’t well known. Business
owners and managers know Stratus Building
Solutions is reliable. That is another big
reason to become a Stratus Building Solutions franchise owner – to become
part of a reputable, trusted brand.

When you become a Stratus franchise, you’re also insured, and you
work with Stratus Green
Clean products.

That’s another huge selling point and why we hope you’ll consider
becoming a Stratus franchise business owner. The Stratus Green
Clean products really has nothing to do with you making more
money. It has everything to do, however, with your health. Instead of breathing
in toxic cleaning chemicals day in and day out, you or your staff will be
working with environmentally friendly cleaning products. It’s completely safe
for you to work with, and for your clients to be around later when they come
into a freshly cleaned workplace. That’s not hype or being
alarmist. A
fast food worker tragically died in the fall of 2019 from
breathing in a strong chemical agent that was being used to clean the
kitchen. There are some seriously dangerous and harsh chemicals out there,
and we want nothing to do with them.

How to become a cleaning franchise
owner. It’s easy. All you need to do is ask yourself a
few questions.

Am I ready for this? And all that means
is – are you at the point in your life where you want to be a business owner,
and you feel you have the time and desire? Many of our franchise owners were
in the cleaning business before, working for somebody else and thinking,
“Someday I’m going to work for myself.”

If that’s your mindset, then, well, maybe today is someday. But
plenty of people don’t want the responsibility of owning a business – or they
want it, but not yet.

So, there’s some soul searching that any future business owner should
do before taking the leap.

Do I have the funding to start my
business? Any business you start – even a lemonade stand in
your parent’s driveway – needs to be seeded with some startup capital. The
kid with the lemonade stand may not spend a dime, but his or her parents
likely bought the glasses, the table to put the lemonade on, the lemons and
the pitcher and paid for the water coming out of the faucet and so
on.

When you buy a franchise, it’s the same deal, on a much bigger
scale — as you know. Now, the biggest franchises often require hundreds of
thousands of dollars or a fat line of credit in order to purchase one. But
Stratus Building Solutions prides itself in being one of the lowest cost
franchise models in North America. The total
investment ranges between $3,450 to $50,350, depending on the size
of the territory and other factors.

But if you’re feeling deflated by those numbers – we’ve had many
business owners get started running their franchise for as low as a $1,000
down payment.

So, if you at least have that, and you have the will and desire to
work for yourself, then you probably have enough startup
capital.

Obviously, you’ll want to talk to somebody at Stratus, which leads
us to the final question.

Do I have a phone? Because if you
contact the closest regional office, which you can
find by clicking here, you can talk to somebody at Stratus who can
answer all of your questions about being a franchise owner – and let you know
if there’s a territory open in your neck of the woods.

Again, running a cleaning enterprise isn’t easy. But we do our
best to make it far easier than creating a janitorial services business from
scratch and running it on your own. If you’re excited to become a business
owner, we’re excited to help you make it happen.