From idea to replacing full-time salary in 4 months
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Re: From idea to replacing full-time salary in 4 months
#2From a business standpoint this is absolutely brilliant. Everyone should be doing this, doesn't matter if you're a SaaS or selling real-world goods & services.
> 2) Having Extras at checkout. When we first started, you would checkout online and just order your home cleaning and pay. Then I had the brilliant idea (seems so basic now) to have other options for people to choose extra stuff at checkout like "cleaning inside the fridge", "cleaning inside the windows", "cleaning inside closets", it was just extra money that I was leaving on the table. It took my average profit from about $45 to closer to $60 per client.
Re: From idea to replacing full-time salary in 4 months
#3From a business standpoint this is absolutely brilliant. Everyone should be doing this, doesn't matter if you're a SaaS or selling real-world goods & services. > 2) Having Extras at checkout. When we first started, you would checkout online and just order your home cleaning and pay. Then I had the brilliant idea (seems so basic now) to have other options for people to choose extra stuff at checkout like "cleaning ins…
100%! You'll find a lot of the PSDtoHTML companies do this extensively.
Re: From idea to replacing full-time salary in 4 months
#4He's essentially figured out that cleaning is one of many services which would have lower barrier to entry if it were not regulated. He is, of course, right. I sincerely hope for his sake that he reinvests profits into bringing himself into compliance with e.g. employment taxes, workers comp, etc.
Re: From idea to replacing full-time salary in 4 months
#5He's essentially figured out that cleaning is one of many services which would have lower barrier to entry if it were not regulated. He is, of course, right. I sincerely hope for his sake that he reinvests profits into bringing himself into compliance with e.g. employment taxes, workers comp, etc.
Are you saying you think it's illegal for the maids to be 1099 workers?
Re: From idea to replacing full-time salary in 4 months
#6From a business standpoint this is absolutely brilliant. Everyone should be doing this, doesn't matter if you're a SaaS or selling real-world goods & services. > 2) Having Extras at checkout. When we first started, you would checkout online and just order your home cleaning and pay. Then I had the brilliant idea (seems so basic now) to have other options for people to choose extra stuff at checkout like "cleaning ins…
Up-sells aren't exactly new, but it can definitely be creative.
Re: From idea to replacing full-time salary in 4 months
#7It's a nice personal achievement, but I can't help myself cringing at business models of this kind. It's plain old extraction of surplus-value, adding very little to the economy as a whole. The workers would be better off operating as a cooperative, I wish they had the education to know that from the outset, and the means to implement it.
Re: From idea to replacing full-time salary in 4 months
#8He's essentially figured out that cleaning is one of many services which would have lower barrier to entry if it were not regulated. He is, of course, right. I sincerely hope for his sake that he reinvests profits into bringing himself into compliance with e.g. employment taxes, workers comp, etc.
Are you saying you think it's illegal for the maids to be 1099 workers?
They're unambiguously employees - classifying them as independent contractors is illegal, and both the IRS and their state's labor board will take violent exception to it.
This isn't the only problem: the post would make a great issue spotter for an employment law class.
Re: From idea to replacing full-time salary in 4 months
#9He's essentially figured out that cleaning is one of many services which would have lower barrier to entry if it were not regulated. He is, of course, right. I sincerely hope for his sake that he reinvests profits into bringing himself into compliance with e.g. employment taxes, workers comp, etc.
Also...
• he seems to be comparing his prior 'take-home' (after-tax) pay with his new venture 'profits' (monthly pre-tax).
• as another redditor points out, he may be in for a painful 1099-reclassified-as-employee showdown with the tax and employment authorities
And yet, good on him. He's found a niche and will now rapidly get to learn the tax & employment law details.
Re: From idea to replacing full-time salary in 4 months
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are you saying you think it's illegal for the maids to be 1099 workers?
They're unambiguously employees - classifying them as independent contractors is illegal, and both the IRS and their state's labor board will take violent exception to it. This isn't the only problem: the post would make a great issue spotter for an employment law class.
I haven't read every comment he's made yet, but skimmed many of them...
Why can't they be contractors? He said they're providing their own transportation and supplies. So he's just handing them clients and appointments, and a checklist of cleaning tasks to complete and a few limitations on the supplies used. Isn't that analogous to handing a contracted software developer a requirements document and a deadline?