New cleaning company - advice needed

[buttonmoon78]

Hello all

I'm setting up a new cleaning company in Sept (to coincide with dc3's start at FT school). I've worked as a cleaner on and off for about 5 years. I want to eliminate all the usual gripes about cleaners (ie not reliable, don't move sofas etc). But there's a couple of things I could do with advice on:

1. If you were to employ my company would you find it intrusive to have me ring say every 2 wks for a couple of months then every month just to check that you were happy with the service etc?

1. Name - does 'The Gleam Team' sound professional enough? Other suggestions welcome!

1. When I had dc3 I had a cleaner just once or twice after he was born to keep things kicking along nicely. How would you phrase this on publicity material? Post-natal or new mum cleans sounds like something a midwife would offer not a cleaning co!

1. How much would you / do you pay? We're in a pretty deprived area (Stoke on Trent) so I'm fairly confident I know what to charge. I guess this one's more nosiness than anything else...!

Thanks for your input.

I have used several cleaning companies over the year. Things that are important to me are:

1. same person every week as they get to know what I like.
2. being able to leave notes to them and them to me about anything I need or want differently.
3. Personally I would hate a call every couple of weeks , if I had a problem I would call you.
4. I would just call them one off cleans as I know people with children who have them for a variety of reasons and you don't want to restrict the market.
5. I am in west berkshire cleaners like gold dust and good ones even rarer and I pay £15 per hour. They are the best I have ever had my house is left pristine every week.