Neel Parekh launched his cleaning business startup MaidThis in 2013 to achieve financial independence. A decade later, it’s expanded into a national brand with an average monthly revenue of $166,000–and run as a 100% remote digital business. Learn how to start a cleaning business following Neel’s model in this UpFlip interview.

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Neel’s goals when he became an entrepreneur were twofold: to have freedom to travel and to provide financially for his parents. He experimented with a variety of side hustles when he first ventured into entrepreneurship. He’ll explain what drew him to starting a cleaning business and what he learned from those earlier ventures that helped him launch MaidThis once he found his niche.

Most people think of a cleaning company as a local business, but Neel bucked that trend by launching MaidThis with a fullyremote model. Their team is distributed across 8 countries, and he’ll explain the advantages and challenges that come along with running a remote cleaning business. He’ll also share his strategies for communicating and managing the workflow with a remote team. Building that team has brought its own challenges, and he’ll explain how the business improved their recruiting systems during Covid.

One factor that drove MaidThis’s success is that they niched down into Airbnb cleaning. They were the first Airbnb cleaning franchise in the United States, with an automated scheduling system that integrates into Vrbo and Airbnb easily. He’ll share why this is such a great niche for a cleaning business and how they developed the systems they use in the business today.

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Timestamps:
00:00 START
00:54 Background
02:03 Home office
03:33 Clientele
05:42 Going fulltime
06:57 Transition from local to remote
09:02 Challenges
10:18 Revenue
11:15 Starting with nothing
12:42 “Remote” business model
14:20 Marketing strategies
16:06 Remote staff
17:02 Marketing expenses & ROI
18:21 Fan blitz
19:21 Customer reviews
21:32 What he’d do differently
22:48 Website demo
26:04 Customer engagement
28:16 Onboarding process
30:11 Book recommendation
31:52 Benefits of being an entrepreneur
33:36 Business goals
35:49 Biggest mistakes
36:43 Phone demo
40:49 Advice to fellow entrepreneurs
41:28 Outro

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