July is supposed to be the slowest time of the year for house cleaning franchises, but this summer is proving that rule wrong. Last week we celebrated record weeks for our Chicago House Cleaning Franchisee, and our Cherry Hill Maid Service Franchise. In addition, You've Got MAIDS franchise also celebrated a record week for system wide sales, number of recurring house cleaning clients and number of cleans for the week.

Why do two maid service owners in the same market achieve vastly different results? Why do two house cleaning franchisee’s in the same system, in similar markets, experience different sales volumes? Perhaps it’s because the market is not the controlling factor, it’s the person running the cleaning business that matters most.

This is our Quakertown house cleaning franchisee, Bruce O'Brien speaking on the benefits or owning a maid service franchise.

Here's our franchise partners from South New Jersey reporting how well our website has worked for them. Their maid service franchise website helped them pick up 3 recrurring clients during the first few days they opened their doors...and this was before their advertising hit!

As someone who has been in the franchise residential cleaning industry before, during and may I say after a recession (I hope it's after), it is my fixed opinion that the maid service is recession proof. Here's why I believe this is true:

After a long career as a franchisee with a national pizza franchise, I came to the maid service industry. At first I viewed it with arrogance…I would never do that. After a thorough investigation, my only regret is that I had not entered the house cleaning industry fifteen years earlier. Here are a few reasons why:

Does your home require Charlotte House Cleaning Services? Busy Charlotteans who don't have the time to clean their own homes need professional maid services like You've Got MAIDS. Our housecleaning company always runs background checks and then enrolls each maid into Maid University to ensure excellent housekeeping skills.

Do you need College Station House Cleaning Service? You've Got MAIDS has not yet awarded a maid service franchise in College Station, Texas...but it looks like we will soon! I can't wait to start providing professional maid services in College Station.

There is someone out there telling people that they can start a cleaning business for a hundred dollars, and they would be more than willing to send you instructions for just $29.99. So much for the hundred dollars!

If your goal is to clean houses yourself, and use your customers’ equipment to do it, save yourself the $29.99 and start knocking on doors today. With a little good luck and a lot of hard work you could put in 35 to 40 hours of house cleaning a week earning $500 to $800.