I started my business 3 years ago. After my daughter was born, I was only 18 and didn't have the heart to leave her every single day and work some job making $7/hour. I would have to work, all day, every day, to just even afford our essentials. Luckily, I had the help of my family who provided everything for us, but I wanted to look at our things and think "I provided this."
One day my mother brought up the subject of house cleaning, and how my aunts were also thinking about cleaning homes. In my area, cleaning a home for 2 to 3 hours, I researched that I could charge at least $100. So I began cleaning a couple of houses a week, and a couple of years later, here I am running a business and managing 4 employees.
One step that I've been taking recently is automating my business. After hiring my employees, I found that I wanted to stay home with my daughters more, but wasn't able to because of always being on the phone, having to fill in on cleaning homes, and chasing down clients for estimates and billing.
Here is how I fixed all of that:
