Best 5 Figure Weekend Business To Start as a Beginner

We have found the best way to generate 10k per month with very little risk, aka not a ton of cash that no one seems to be talking about. Drum roll please. Cleaning. Trust me, the next 20 minutes will be well worth sticking around to see how the cleaning industry mops up nearly $90 billion in revenue each year and how you can steal a piece of it. Disclaimer if you're thinking about get rich quicking, this is not it. You're gonna get your hands dirty. That's how the money and the fun is made. Number one, window cleaning. The very first business. By 2028, window cleaning as an industry is going to grow to 3.5 billion. But they're actually only 12,244 to be pretty much precise window cleaners in the US so that tells me that there's a pretty big opportunity. So I know these two guys, maybe you've seen them before. Johnny and Sergio, who at 19 turned $150 into $65,000 a month from window cleaning. Let's break this business down so you can steal their homework. Startup costs. What do you actually need to get started? Water fed poles 180 bucks. Extension poles with T bar handles. 40 towels 40. Ladders 80 to 400. Cleaning solution 30 buckets. 30. Squeegees and scrapers 10. Water purification system 100 to 2000. A little reverse osmosis DIY to save money. You could buy one for 50 bucks. So total, let's call it somewhere between 500 bucks. If you're doing it the cheapy version. Quick start. I kind of like that. Up to let's call it three to five thousand dollars. Now most homeowners spend about ten to fifteen dollars per residential window with an average cost cost of two hundred and fifty for their property. Commercial owners pay five to fifteen bucks per pane which means that they can be a lot bigger. So with somewhere between three and ten houses you could pre sell and already have your money back. Sergio and Johnny started small quoting per pain prices going door to door. Over time they realized, wait a minute. They could make way more by expanding with staff and more services. The pros here why I like this recurring revenue. The windows will get dirty again. No one likes cleaning windows including myself. Very little training or supplies involved and high demand in residential and commercial areas. Before you do anything, I want you to get knocking. You don't even have a business yet, but I want you to see if people will buy your sh t in your neighborhood. There's no more effective way to get started than this you may get business on the spot or future work when the neighbors envy these sparkling windows of the people that you clean. This is called a route strategy and you're gonna do it. First up, Neighborhood watch. You're going to sweep up the businesses and the houses in your neighborhood. I want you to call every window cleaner in the area and find out what they're charging. You'll quickly know if there is competition and how much you should be charging. Just steal their homework. Then you use this to get an idea of how much money you could make and how many residential and or commercial properties that breaks down to per month. Step 2 Put pen to paper make the world's fastest plan on an Excel spreadsheet. So I guess not exactly pen to paper, but you guys get what I'm talking about. You need three things. Who you'll serve, what you expect to make startup costs and ongoing expenses. Pro as you set your prices, protect your time investment. Quoting a flat fee without a good sense of how long it will take to do the job. That's tough. Don't do that. Our services businesses are really smart on how they do this. You're going to kick yourself after you've worked for hours on a big job for pennies in return. You might start with per window costs and then move to flat fees in the future. Number three Don't f up the boring stuff. Yes, it is boring. To register your business. To look into necessary licenses and permits and insurance to choose a name for your business. You don't need to do this before you sold your first customers. Not at all. Just go sell something, get some money and then do this next step. Also I think keep it stupid simple. You can get cute with naming of it later. But you could also do a lot like this guy did which is create a billion dollar business that's called 1-800-GOT junk. Not a crazy name. You basically know exactly what it is. Number four Time to get shopping before you make money. I like you to sell a few things so I would really like you to start small. You can always use future sales to get fancier equipment or branch into commercial projects. Once you're making money I would quickly invest in some software. Not anything crazy but basically billing so you're not doing it like this. A CRM to follow up with customers and get repeat business. I would do this consistently. 5. Get online so Sergio and Johnny did the door to door game. But they didn't stop there. Then they built their online presence with one word. That's all that matters. Reviews. This means you need to set up a profile in Google business with your full name, credentials, all that. Then a business website that makes it easy for people to see. You can do that for like five bucks on Squarespace. Then you can eventually do social media profiles. I don't even think you need that up front. A pro tip is if a customer likes your service, get them to leave you a Google review right then and there. In fact, this whole video is about how to do that. If you want to do that. These reviews boost your business. Build trust, build. They're going to get you to close more. More people who trust you, the more people who pay you. Number six, get out the way. This is when you start hiring and training a team after you already have clients. You don't want to stand in the sun cleaning windows anymore. You want to make some cash, but you have enough revenue for somebody else to do the work. That's basically what business is. You do the work, you make some money. They do the work, you do the work. They do the work, you do the work, they do the work. To sum it up, you got to keep it clean. You're going to choose your target market, you're going to launch your business plan, you're going to establish your business properly, you're going to actually find out who wants your shit. You're going to nail your delivery. We're not going to repeat the clean strategy for all of these. As we go into these four other businesses, I'm going to break down pro tips for each of these types of businesses, hopefully that you've never thought about. But don't forget clean. So if you go from cleaning windows to pressure washing, take the clean with you, start there and then add on these pro tips. Now, after you've implemented the clean method, when starting your business, there is one other important thing you need to consider after starting your business and that's you got to protect it. Now why would you go through all of this work to build a business business that can support you and your family if you're not going to take the extra but super necessary step, ensuring that your family is supported if something happens to you, you've got enough on your plate to worry about then first researching the best life insurance policy, then figuring out how to actually apply. I got my first life insurance policy at 25 when I was in finance. But back then, you know, I kind of died at the thought of confusing, expensive, ridiculously time consuming processes to do that. I just felt like I was going to live forever. I instead did the work for You I found a partner that helps with that. They're called Ethos. I'm all about making more money and I want you guys to also. But even more, I want you to protect the house. Here's how it works. You answer a few health related questions, you get an online quote in seconds, you apply in minutes and in most cases get coverage in the same day. Now the truth is that according to Investopedia, rates can increase 8 to 10% each year. You wait. So I try not to wait. I think you should lock in your rate today. Get your own personalized free quote by clicking on my link below. Thanks Ethos. We put a lot of time into this video and that means that I'd like you to dust off that subscribe button. You know, just get it a little tap. Nice and smooth, easy like pressure washing. Using this bad boy, people basically pay you to remove paint, mud, dirt, I don't know, children's drawings from driveways and buildings. And you can make a lot of money doing it. I don't think I have to explain this in huge depth because we also have this power washing video that you guys can go back and watch if you decide to go this way. Let's get right into the cost of this bad boy. Most solid gas powered pressure washers on Amazon go for 300500 bucks. Start there. Also a ladder 80 to 400 hoses and nozzles 80 cleaning solution 220. You're gonna need more as you do more houses. You get it if you pick a high end pressure washer your all in business costs a total of 880 to 1000. TIP. Don't pick junk that will break and delay your job and cause you other headaches. You can also rent stuff from Home Depot. The numbers how much money you gonna make? The average driveway costs 258 bucks to pressure wash either three driveways at a flat $300 fee or four at 250 startup costs for your initial investments. But try to add in the back or front porch the price per service costs with a slight discount. This is how you earn more by doing siding, patio fit, pavers, patio furniture, you name it, you could start earning 800 to $1,000 per job. Pros, you don't need to buy anything up front. Plenty of businesses require you to get the equipment or sellable goods up front. Just one example. Amazon. You got to buy a garage full of crap. Keep your fingers crossed that it will sell. Not the case with a power washing company. Let's say you want to start with Zero. You make some flyers, you hit the pavement and you pre sell a few customers on your power washing service. With a few prepaid gigs, you can cover the cost of a decent pressure washer from Amazon. I'm not trying to say that this is incredibly easy. Anybody can do it. You can do it with $0. I'm saying it is possible. You can spend more if you want to. You'll be able to scale a lot faster. My point is the world's hard out there right now. I was just at a conference today with hundreds of people who are in real estate who are losing their shirts. My point with these videos is to try to show more people that you can make money without a bunch of permission. So we're starting at the low end and then we're going to talk to you about how do you scale these bad boys aggressively. This industry in particular is interesting. It's growing by like 5.7-ish percent a year. I also like it because you don't need a lot of prior experience. 54% of pressure washer technicians only have a high school education. And by the way, most of them make more than marketing majors. They it's also very scalable. The only part that's not scalable is the hot sun, the dirt, the concretes, the cracks. It's going to make your hands dirty and chafed. You have to think about that. But if you're willing to put in the work, it's going to be hard for AI to automate it. Now the next thing you have to think about is what we talked about before. It was team up, get other people to do the hard work with you. You'll have to pay 20, probably 25 bucks per hour for somebody to do this job alongside you. Be aware. Outsourcing sounds easier, easy. But one of the hardest parts about when you start a business is finding labor people who are going to do the work. Maybe you've already got the jobs, the operations, marketing and accounting on your plate. Trying to figure out how to find people to work for you seems easy, but it's serious work. If you want more ways to do that, comment below and I can put together a video for how you guys can attract people to your small business is super important. Let's talk about cons really quick. One, hard work outside. This is going to be the same for all of these, so I'm not going to keep repeating it. The second one for this is that there's a little bit of talent involved in pressure washing. I mean a lot of talent at the high, high levels, but a little bit of talent to make sure you're not like stripping the paint off the house. That's why we start with driveways, which are a lot more forgiving. Driveways, sidewalks, et cetera. Then you can level up to the varying levels to make sure that you understand how to not strip a fence completely, but get that gray off of it. The third con in this type of business is there's a lot of entrance that could come in so you could have a bunch of people trying this exact same thing. The good part though is the competitors in this space are not that good. You're not competing with the Amazon of pressure washing. There are so many things that need to be done that aren't being done. The fourth con is there's not an easy way to get clients. It's not like, you know, you can go online and just post on social and people are going to see your pressure washing and then they're going to double click on it to buy. This is still, in my opinion, a boots on the ground, door knocking, handing out flyers, hanging out in neighborhoods, talking to neighbors, asking for referrals. So we're talking hand to hand combat. Pro tip. If starting a pressure washing business is your goal, go viral, baby. Like, look how good it looks to see the before and after pressure washers use the best before and after shots. Or do what these guys do, which is like incredible marketing overall and everything in their business. Pinks also make it look professional. How you show up is how people are going to think you are priced. So show up, look in Lux, they're gonna think, huh, I should probably pay these guys more. The other thing that you could do is you could create a YouTube channel. Now I don't actually know how much this converts, so I'd be curious if any of you guys do this. Does this convert to users? Big, big deal is related keywords, search engine and reviews. So I want you to obsess on that more than almost anything else. I call these walking billboards, which is basically sign or decal on your car and also sign or decal on your body. It's like a walk in business card. People really underestimate how much this works. And then have a little fun. Do some drawings on somebody's driveway. Make it pretty incredible if you know they have kids. Now if you want to make more cash, I would pair this with another service. So let's say power washing plus, in the winter you do hanging Christmas lights, or maybe in the fall in a place with a bunch of Trees, you do gutter cleaning. Pair these two together and you can have a business where you can basically double your revenue while having only one person on site and really decreasing your overall cost. Let's talk about carpet cleaning. Turns out 51% of floors in American homes are carpeted, which is wild. And you'll have a hard time finding offices with bare floors. Now, while they kind of make you feel warm and cozy, they're kind of disgusting. They're filled with like dander and dirt. So let's start with the startup costs. Commercial vacuum cleaner. Not cheap. 300 to 400 bucks. A specialized carpet cleaning machine, either hot water extractor or steam cleaner. Expensive, but you can rent it. So like 2000 to 3000 if you're going to buy cleaning chemicals like shampoo for carpet spot stain, carpet rake and brush, furniture protectors, cleaning towels and rags, you get the gist. Carpet cleaning chemicals can get nasty. So you're probably going to want some ppe, respirators, gloves, coveralls. All in all, this is going to run you. Let's call it 2000 to 5000 bucks. The numbers may shock you. It did me this. Carpet cleaners as a whole is a big industry.5 billion in revenue and they charge about $0.20 to $0.40 per square foot for the jobs. So on average that means residential clients will pay around 180 to, let's call it 500 bucks to clean the carpet. In Austin, it's way more than that. So I think you could try with pricing. A good profit margin for a small business tends to be between 10 and 20% normalized. Let's make you higher because that gives you wiggle room and try to go for 30 to 50. A lot of the profit margins in this space are 50 to 60%. So what are the pros? Grows by like $1.5 billion. Industry overall is under saturated. There's not enough carpet cleaners, especially in burgeoning markets like Austin. We do not have enough vendors. The next pro here is you don't have very good competition. There are really good commercial companies that go out and get big contracts, but for single family residential homes, not so much. There's also something in common. Incredible about the before and after of clean carpets. So I think you can push on this now in higher income areas. Carpets are not as normal actually in their houses. Typically wood, some sort of like marble or something. But guess what, they have expensive rugs. Do you know what it costs to clean a rug? The answer is a lot. Now there's some important parts about Rug cleaning and you could really screw this up. But if you partner with somebody that knows how to do it, you can actually charge a lot for individual rug cleaning. Let's do some pro tips. Look at this. This Guy has over 3 million followers on TikTok. People apparently like to watch carpet cleaning. Imagine if just 1% of these viewers wanted your service. You could also just be the middleman, taking the viewers and pushing them out to local carpet cleaners. Another thing you could do in this space, partner up with another company that's new and growing that does a different type of service. So remember that window washing company or Power Washington, ask them if every client you get, you could refer to them and if they would do the same thing back to you. So you basically go, hey, I'm happy to clean your carpets. Also, the outside looks a little dirty and so do the windows. Do you want me to have my guys come? We'll give your house an entire facelift during this process. Now, here's what's going to happen. You're going to partner with a few people, and those original people are not going to send you great referrals. That's okay, because you're looking for the person who sends you a bunch of referrals back. I've basically done doubled one financial business, only through referrals, because I had a great accountant. The accountant sent my financial team great referrals. I sent them back to him. We both doubled our business without doing more work. Pool planning. Turns out over 10 million residential pools exist in America, which is like a lot, but if you guys have ever owned one, they're a lot of work and it's not that much fun to take care of. Which is why actually most American pool owners don't even clean their pool and they don't know how to use the chemicals. So guess what? That's where we come in. Taking care of their pools on regular maintenance contracts. The fascinating part, and I own part of a pool cleaning business, is that there's only 75,000 pool cleaning businesses in the U.S. there's a lot of money to go around. Plus, we're starting to buy more of these. The interesting part about pool cleaning businesses is they don't cost a lot to start. Your standard job includes skimming, vacuuming, checking pumps, testing chemicals, adding chemicals to water as needing, and then backwashing to like take out debris and dirt if it's been there for a long time. So what do you actually need? You need brushes, a good vacuum, telescoping poles, skimmer nets, you Need a bunch of chemicals, strips and kits and you need to make sure that you know what to do with those. So it costs you somewhere between 5 and $12,000 to start this business with the chemicals. Underrated hack here. Buying the pool cleaning business instead of having to start it and build it from zero. We had three people in our community buy a pool cleaning business explicitly. In fact, we did a video on one of them. Great businesses to buy, not very expensive. You can scale it up from there. And if you want to learn from our community with a bunch of other business buyers live, hit this link. It'll take you to figure out if you're a right fit. So the cool part about pool cleaning services is that they're another recurring revenue and they offer weekly or bi weekly cleaning, which means that you can sit, stay busy, and have consistent cash flow. The thing is, getting your pool cleaned is expensive. I pay more than 300 bucks a month in Austin. Depending on where you are, it could be like 150 all the way up to 500 plus a month. What's interesting about this is you can set your own schedule. You can have solid cash flow, you can have a business that you can sell afterwards. There are a bunch of aggregators right now actively buying businesses, including this company called Splash, which I actually invested in. They just bought two new pool companies, so that could be yours. They're looking for people to scale them up right now. The other interesting part that I like about pool cleaning businesses is it's a great segue as a feeder business for bigger services. What do I mean by that? Well, you go and you clean a pool for 300 bucks a month. But the interesting part is you see that the pool kind of needs to be redone a little bit. The outside doesn't look so good. Maybe there's some chips on the inside. So you actually do a referral to somebody that restructures or resurfaces pools. You don't have to do it. You can just take a referral fee for everyone that you do. Or you could use it as a way to get landscaping services. Or you could do it as a way to get pool hybridization services for the winter. Lots of different ways for you to make money. What's also great, really, no prior experience needed. Like, 53% of pool cleaners only have a high school diploma. So the industry is growing by 16% every single year. And most pool owners love the idea of outsourcing to somebody else. There's some cons to this business. It could be seasonal Pool cleaning businesses also don't have huge margins and the chemical prices can fluctuate up and down a lot. What are the pro tips for starting a pool cleaning company? Let's just do a few of them really quickly for you Google Maps. You'll quickly work out how many pools are in your area, which is such a hack. Then you could do something interesting like get environmentally friendly products. Us little millennials love that unique differentiator and could help earn you more business. Plus you can charge more. 3. Get friendly with gardeners. Partnerships with landscaping, lawn mowing companies or even realtors open up the door to more referrals and you could do it both ways. You could actually pay them for that. I love the pool cleaning business as a starter gateway drug business. Cleaning dead bodies is our next one. Yeah, you did hear that right. Doesn't get dirtier than this one. Even me, the dirty business boring business queen doesn't love this idea. But some of you psychopaths out there love this and think unconventional money making opportunity. Sign me the f CK up. So here's the business model. I was scrolling through TikTok and I saw this scene of a bloody murder in a meth lab. It was a train wreck. I couldn't stop looking at it. And the video was here from a pro crime scene cleaner. Along with murders, she does raw sewage, animal hoarding, disgusting smell removal, just to name a few. So I watched a couple of these videos and I figured out that she can make up to 50k even more depending on the state for one cleaning job. And she's not alone. Like there's this one 29 year old trauma cleaner spent 300 bucks on cleaning equipment like gloves, trash bags, Costco sized bottles of disinfectant and turned it into a $300,000 a year business. Another started with 15k and now does $12 million a year. We have a great video on this too, but let's break down what it would cost for you to start if you need to start bagging bodies. I don't know, can we make these jokes? Let's definitely start with personal protective equipment. If you freaked out with the rest of us in the world in the beginning of the pandemic, maybe you have a bunch of this lying around, but you probably need some bigger versions. Got to have gloves, you have to have a hazmat suit, respirators, a face mask, many of them. I don't know. You're talking 80 bucks to a couple hundred bucks. All things that can be found on Amazon by the way. To Start, then you can get commercial heavier duty. Then you're going to need the cleaning supplies. This is where it gets messy. You're going to probably need a lot of different tools depending on the occasion. So to start, let's have some of the essentials, which is a shovel, mops in a bucket, medical grade disinfectant, industrial deodorizer, sponges and cloths, hazard waste disposal bags. So all in, we're talking about a couple hundred bucks. You're also going to need a van or something to haul this around. Probably $3,000 for a down payment on a $30,000 van. Or you could rent one. All in, you're looking at spending, let's call it 3,000 to $7,000. But let's make sure you walk around with like a business card, a permit or something because otherwise people might think you're up to some weird shit. And I don't want you to get arrested. That seems like it's not good for cash flow. Crime scene cleaners make roughly $600 an hour doing a job that in a lot of states requires no degree or certification. Wild. Let's assume it's $200 an hour and a part time gig. Call it five hours a day, three days a week. That's $3,000 in revenue in a week. 300 to 500amonth for gas and supplies. We're talking about 10 to $11,000 a month in the bank. And that's an earning potential of hundreds of thousands of dollars for a part time cleaning gig. But you do have to deal with blood and dead bodies. So here's the benefits. Low upfront cost, not a lot of barriers to entry, high earning potential. I know multiple businesses that have scaled this to 1 million and beyond. You're always going to have customers. Death is one of the two things assured in life. The other is that you'll want to subscribe to see our next video. Massive potential to go viral. And I think this is a really interesting business for all of those reasons. The cons is, I don't know, how do you market yourself in this? You know, it takes a toll to clean up dead bodies for a living. So you're really going to ask yourself, do you have it in you to market this type of business? Now some pro tips to increase your body count and probably not the type you're thinking you're gonna want to hire some people. For instance, Sadie's company ballooned from just her to 100 employees since the pandemic. And now she's suffering from a horrible disease called phone constantly ringing with new customers, which is wild, but you do have to hire for that. The second is go viral for lots of cash. I mean, 80 million people on TikTok know who Sadie is, which has led to more and more customers because again, it's even somebody in your neighborhood who wants something cleaned up. You're basically the intense I don't want to do it too dirty crew. So take advantage of the Internet's obsession with true crime and cleaning videos. For you, that means firing up TikTok, Instagram, YouTube shorts, even Facebook reels for all your boomer friends. And Sadie has plenty videos of her cleaning up everything like this. There is actually not much stopping you from a cleaning business this weekend that could change your life. It all comes down to keeping it clean, choosing your target market, launching your business cheaply, efficiently with a plan, establishing your business properly, actually finding out who wants your shit, nailing your delivery. And it's not really that hard to clean. But it is hard work. And as a result, it's amazing how many aspiring entrepreneurs overlook the basic and the boring businesses that people will always need. There will always be a profitable business opportunity in any business. But I think in cleaning, you just have to ask yourself, am I willing to put in the work that others won't? It turns out if you want to make unreasonable levels of money, you have to have an irrational work ethic. High competence leads to high profits. And in this business, you don't have to be that competent to start. Just got to outwork the other guys, be a little bit smarter.