A New Adventure

After leaving the corporate world, I spent a lot of time doing research on this new adventure that I was about to embark on. It was a bit scary at first, leaving everything you've known all your life behind to go out on your own without a safety net. To my surprise, it wasn't all that hard to accomplish once you put your mind to it. We can come back to this at a later time, because it is interesting and it can be educational to those who might be interested in starting your own business. It will be a lot easier and less pressure if you know in advance what to expect.

I decided that I would start a business that: 1) would not take up too much of my time and make me money as well. Hey, I was semi-retired! 2) be a business that would survive the bad times as well as the good times, a business that encompassed the idea that there is always someone that is willing to do something that someone else can not do or want to do.

For me, the cleaning business, both residential and commercial , needed to be different then everyone else out there. As a selling point, there are no teams of 2 or 3 people coming to your house, no buddy system - just ME. I sold the most important fact to my future clients: "Trust and Security" and my ability and guarantee that I could bring a shine to the worst of any condition.

Now cleaning someone's home or office, you have to do something that they don't have the time to do or want to do. Everyday is Spring Cleaning! I clean houses in Central Florida close to 1000 times a year.

Within 17 years, my residential and commercial cleaning business has grown into a Concierge Service Company that includes:

• Home Care Management
• Pet Care Management
• Errand Service
• Referral Service
• Personal Shopper Service

An evergreen, recession-resistant business that is and always in demand. My mission statement: "Doing what it takes to make your life comfortable."