| Name |
Heliany Resende |
| Name of your business: |
HMR Quality Clean |
| When did you open your business? |
Started cleaning in 2008. |
| What services do you offer? |
Residential Cleaning Services |
| Why did you start the business? |
Hoping for more money than working in the restaurant business. |
| How many people are in your company? |
1 |
| What has been the biggest surprise, good or bad, since you started? |
Feeling really tired after years of cleaning houses. It's a hard job. |
| What is the toughest part of running your business? |
Working in the field. |
| What is the best part of running your business? |
Being my own boss. |
| Is there anything that you would have done differently? |
Yes, investing in myself and asking for help. |
| What is the most important thing you will be adding, doing, changing in the next year for your business? |
Investing in marketing and learning how to delegate. |
| Where do you see your business in 2 years, 5 years, and 10 years? |
In the next 2 years, I want get out of the field and have more clients and 4 employees. |
| What advice could you give others and please don't hold back! |
Invest in yourself. |
| How do you use MyHouseCleaningBiz.com to help you with your business? |
I want to learn how grow my business, learn how training my people, and delegate. |
| School - high school, college, technical school: |
Some college |
| What are some of your prior jobs or businesses? |
In Brazil, my last job was at American Express credit card. In the USA, I worked in restaurants. |
| Is there a specific person or event in your life that made you decide to go into business for yourself? |
Yes, a good friend was going back to Brazil and she was trying to sell me her business. However, I did not have the money to invest at that time. She convinced me that I was going to make a little more money and have weekends off. She gave me 7 clients and that's how i got into the cleaning world. |
| Web Site: |
http://hmrqualityclean.com |
| Email Address: |
[email protected] |
| Your Social Network links (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc): |
https://www.facebook.com/hmrqualityclean |