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How much do you charge an Airbnb client for daily cleaning service?

Excellent question and we're going to talk about that today.

Hi there.

I'm Angela Brown and this is Ask a House Cleaner.

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All right, onto today's show which is from a house cleaner who has this question.

Hi, Angela.

I would like to know how would you suggest me marketing my business to Airbnb client.

I have a client who wants services every day between check-in and checkout, which is between

12:00 noon and 2:00 p.m.

How would you charge for that?

And this is supposed to be a daily service, so I guess it's a daily service unless they

don't have anybody, this checking in and checking out.

How would you market your business to the Airbnb client? Thanks.

Angela Brown: All righty.

What do you charge an Airbnb customer for daily service?

Well, if they're expecting you to be there every single day, what you may want to do

is figure out a flat fee per week or a per hour charge

so that you can be there every single day.

And then what you might do is rotate chores on the days when maybe they're not so busy

or no one is checking in.

Now you said from checkout until check-in, which is a window in the afternoon, where

I guess people are checking out of their rooms and you've got to turn that room for the next

customer that's coming in.

Now if that's the case, you're going to have some regular maintenance cleaning on that

particular room every single day.

But there's some other stuff that you're probably not going to do every day, like baseboards

and windows and walls and lights and ceiling fans and stuff in

other parts of this person's house.

And so what you may want to do is on the days where you're slow and you don't have a customer

checking in, you may want to rotate the chores through other areas of the house so that their

entire house gets clean and you still get paid for that time, because you don't want

to only reserve this time for this particular customer, and then there are days when they

don't need you and then they don't pay you.

Because if you're locking out that time for that customer, you can't resell that time

to another person.

And so you need to be paid for that time.

So either a flat rate per week or a by the hour charge is probably going to be most effective

and efficient for you and the Airbnb owner, because then they can budget that into their

regular time.

Now there might be other services that they would have you do.

Like maybe they would have you check the person, give them the key, have you be present when

they sign a contract or whatever it is, so that you're acting as a hostess, as well.

So that you can add into your services if that's what you're going to be doing.

And then you might also make an agreement with them that while you're there, maybe you

do some food prep or other things so that you can stay employed during that period of time.

So what do you charge?

It's entirely up to you, between you and the owner of the Airbnb.

But I would in as many services as you can so that you make yourself useful and valuable

so that they use you every single day instead of just on days

when they have people coming in.

Because if you're going to block out that time, you can't resell it to someone else.

And I do want you to be paid for this job, because it sounds like a fun job, and it sounds

like something that even as your business grows and expands, you could assign one person

to do that Airbnb every day during that small window of time.

So it sounds like a fun account, and the Airbnb owner probably belongs to Airbnb groups, either

on Facebook or in the neighborhood or in the community that they could give you referral

business to so that again, as you outsource your business and as your business grows,

you can put one person on station at every different Airbnb in the area, and you can

service that particular niche market.

So that would be my suggestion there.

Anyway, my two cents for today.

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