| Name |
Jorge Leiva |
| Name of your business: |
Bee Maids |
| When did you open your business? |
2009 |
| What services do you offer? |
Residential Cleaning |
| Why did you start the business? |
My wife and I started this business in 2009 as a way to look for extra income and flexibility for my wife to spend more with our little ones. |
| How many people are in your company? |
11 |
| What has been the biggest surprise, good or bad, since you started? |
Well, at first we thought that cleaning homes was just about cleaning. Our belief that by providing a quality cleaning each and every time, we were going to grow really fast and we were wrong. There are many other factors in place besides cleaning to operate a grow a healthy cleaning company. |
| What is the toughest part of running your business? |
Education is key. We discovered this the hard way. No matter what we do in life we always have to be educating ourselves. |
| What is the best part of running your business? |
We love the flexibility that the business provides, the daily challenges and rewards. |
| Is there anything that you would have done differently? |
We would have invested in educating ourselves even before we started the business. |
| What is the most important thing you will be adding, doing, changing in the next year for your business? |
Improving marketing, SEO and our processes. |
| Where do you see your business in 2 years, 5 years, and 10 years? |
In 2 years we see ourselves working smarter and achieving more of what we have done in the past. In 5 years we definitely want to be as absent as possible and in 10 years we want to be able venture in other businesses without abandoning our cleaning company. |
| What advice could you give others and please don't hold back! |
Education is key as I mentioned before. Before, during and every time. I find myself learning more now than in my previous careers. and I love it! |
| How do you use MyHouseCleaningBiz.com to help you with your business? |
We come here to find answers to common questions, to find answers to daily struggles that could happen to anybody else. |
| School - high school, college, technical school: |
My wife and I were born in Colombia, so the major part of our education was there. I hold a Bachelors Degree in Architecture. I also have a degree in Bilingual Education from University of Saint Thomas. My wife is an accountant in Colombia. so obviously she is in charge of the numbers in our company! |
| What are some of your prior jobs or businesses? |
I was a planning chief for a small town in Colombia I had a design office in partnership with a fellow architect. I work as a bilingual teacher for 13 years. I also tried to start a photography business and my wife and I tried to start a bookkeeping company which of course weren't successful. My wife work in the financial industry in Colombia and here she worked for a food broker as an account executive. |
| Is there a specific person or event in your life that made you decide to go into business for yourself? |
We have always wanted to be entrepreneurs. I have always though that in corporate America we are just another piece of the puzzle that can be replaced whenever. We didn't want that for ourselves. |
| Web Site: |
https://beemaids.com/ |
| Email Address: |
[email protected] |
| Your Social Network links (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc): |
https://www.facebook.com/beemaids/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/bee-maids https://twitter.com/beemaids |
