How much is a janitor paid? You may not be sure but the biggest they can get is 300,000UGX but the biggest number earn between 180,000UGX to 230,000UGX. Truth be told if a cleaner is working for a company, that company is paid over 1.5 million which it picks less than 300k and pay the real service deliverer (Cleaner). You will tell me that the company has other costs like taxes, rent and others, yes it’s true, but how much do they remain with? In this era, as a small nest entrepreneur you can operate on less with no rental space but only position yourself well on the internet. As an entrepreneurial trainer and serial entrepreneurial, I can tell that as a janitor or any other hand skilled person you can act as an entrepreneur. Now, we tend to see entrepreneurs as people who think in a pretty specific way forgetting that you can also think that way. If there was an entrepreneur club today, you would be more likely to get your membership card based on how you think about things rather than what you do for a living.
The way entrepreneurs think is called the entrepreneurial mindset. At our organization LEGACY PEARLS – AFRICA , we’ve been teaching people how to think like entrepreneurs and as we share the concepts with more and more people, we are learning more and more about what the mindset is, how it works, how to teach it and how it can be applied.
Today let’s look at someone who has been unemployed for a time and decides to settle for a cleaner job. That is kind of limiting if you stay on that job for more than a year. You should use it to secure a foundation. Now statistics show that most small corporate offices are always looking out for small and medium cleaning companies to offer cleaning services to them, they fear giant companies due to high charges and they hate hiring direct individuals for specific reasons like labor benefits and monitoring all time. So how do you tap into this opportunity?
In your own means register a company/business and secure a Tax identification number, set up online platforms for your company e.g. on Yellow pages, Yellow.ug, Facebook, Google maps and etc. These corporate offices look for cleaning companies online, so position yourself well and lay your traps better. Set up a company profile and write short proposals and keep them smart and deliver them to your desired clients and keep following up. Now you may be thinking am crazy, yes I am, great things to happen there must be some stage of madness about situations.
After all is set, whenever you deliver your proposals, don’t apply as a cleaner but apply as a cleaning company. Come small as you are and portray as big in that big boardroom. Once you get lucky and land a gig, you will be paid as a company four times more than a normal individual cleaner would be paid. Sign an agreement (most contracts go for a year or more) buy very few specific equipment which cost less than 100k (MOPS, BUCKET AND Brushes) and start cleaning by yourself, giving yourself a title as a cleaner under ABC company (you formed). Remember here you will be earning least 1.5m per months. Minus small operational costs, you through your company name /business you can save more than 1m ( few managers earn that unless they are senior managers). In this era where landing a job is a job itself of a kind that never pays, the only remedy is to think and act as an entrepreneur. You lay traps to catch more through a certain maze-full road. It may be daunting but it’s worth the effort. Are you looking to earn seven figure yet you are a janitor or nay other small skill person? Think like an entrepreneur. At NBK-BUSINESS SOLUTIONS AND LEGACY PEARLS – AFRICA we guide you to make this come true, just with ease.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Nicholas Katushabe is an Author, Serial entrepreneur, performance peak trainer and consultant in Uganda, Kampala. (nichol.bk24@gmail.com)
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