I want to know where can i find clients who needs a house/office cleaning services?

Though the total market for cleaning services is tremendous, you must decide on the particular niche you will target. If you want to do residential cleaning, do you want to clean private homes, condos and apartments, or empty rental units? If you're starting a janitorial business, will you focus on offices, retail operations or manufacturing facilities? And will you target small, medium or large customers? As a carpet cleaner, will you clean residential or commercial facilities--or both? And what services other than shampooing carpets will you provide?

Once you've decided on a market niche, you must then look at the geographic area you want to serve. If you're starting a maid service, you want to be able to schedule cleanings in a way that keeps your travel time to a minimum. The same applies to carpet cleaners. Janitorial crews that must move from building to building have a similar concern.

After you've identified what you want to do and where you'd like to do it, research the demographics of the area to be sure it contains a sufficient number of potential customers. If it does, you're ready to move ahead. If it doesn't, you'll need to reconsider how you've defined your niche or the geographic area.

Part of your market analysis includes your costs to serve that market. A densely populated market allows you to serve a greater number of customers because your travel time is minimal, but it also means you'll be consuming more supplies. This needs to be planned for as well as factored into your rates.

You can build a very successful cleaning business on referrals, but you need those first customers to get started. Where are they? Indianapolis-based Bane-Clene Corp. suggests you start by contacting the following groups:

friends and relatives
your neighbors
former co-workers and employers
social groups and clubs, including card clubs, bowling teams, athletic leagues, lodges, fraternities, alumni groups, and neighborhood associations
church or religious acquaintances

Post your ad on craigslist.org (for your local area)

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direct mailing usually works, design a fl yer and mail to prospects
in your area, look in the phone company's yellow pages for apartments, real estate offices,property management offices, and many business listings, from a to z, on your computer make a large list of them, and there is your prospects for new business. [ i suggest you only mail 1000. at a time, and expect 3% res ponce from the 1000... you can pick and choose, usually start at small business, fast foods tec... wait for the big buildings and banks, etc...until you are ready for them....also a good source for prospects [before the established companies find them] is to keep a watch in the papers for business's that file a dba, it gives you the name to contact, address of business, either send a fl yer or make a personal business visit to them, they might be interested while they are starting up and need your services... good luck