Rick and Shorty covered all the fine points and I agree with all of them but thought i'd bring up a couple of things.
1. I started in my mid 50's after retiring from another job also, doing both commercial and residentiaL in
Atl, Ga. I found residential during the summer takes a lot out of you , I mean ALOT. I quickly decided commercial
was the way to go. It doesn't give you a lot of walking around money but once you. Build up your customer list the checks come in regularly.
2. For me it was a much easier sell, as i'm very comfortable meeting with high levels in accounts and selling to them in residential everybody is spending tons of money trying different programs to get business along with 300 other cleaners. I found it's best to target accounts schedule a meeting and try and get their business.
no doubt this is the best thing i've done and it's worked out extremely well. Now I have a couple of trustworthy, good people doing the work and I handle the customer end and invoicing and it's like having a real nice pension. Been doing that for two years while travel around in our rv seeing the country.
1. I started in my mid 50's after retiring from another job also, doing both commercial and residentiaL in
Atl, Ga. I found residential during the summer takes a lot out of you , I mean ALOT. I quickly decided commercial
was the way to go. It doesn't give you a lot of walking around money but once you. Build up your customer list the checks come in regularly.
2. For me it was a much easier sell, as i'm very comfortable meeting with high levels in accounts and selling to them in residential everybody is spending tons of money trying different programs to get business along with 300 other cleaners. I found it's best to target accounts schedule a meeting and try and get their business.
no doubt this is the best thing i've done and it's worked out extremely well. Now I have a couple of trustworthy, good people doing the work and I handle the customer end and invoicing and it's like having a real nice pension. Been doing that for two years while travel around in our rv seeing the country.