Sidos will show 295, a local service business that scales, how a little part-time house

cleaning business went from zero to $60,000 a month in revenue, and how its founder

has scaled back to working on it in just a minutes a day.

What's up, what's up Nick Loper here?

Welcome to the Side Hustle show because you're already an entrepreneur.

Your day job is just your biggest client. Hat tip to Julian Gordon for that

one. In my first conversation with Chris Schwab, he said, well, I tell people I work on my cleaning

business about an hour a day because five minutes doesn't seem believable.

So Chris is the founder of ThinkMades.com, a residential house cleaning service in the Washington,

D.C. area. He started on the side actually while he was still a university student.

Less than two years later that business is doing 60 grand a month worth of cleaning work

all without Chris ever lifting a mop or dusting a shelf. Now I wish I could say the same thing

for the house painting

business I ran in college. I did way too much painting. So stick around in this

episode to hear how Chris came up with this idea, how he found his first

customers and cleaners, and how he manages the entire business

remotely. He was actually in London when we recorded this. It's not just the pace of growth or the

savvy marketing or the limited time involvement that makes

think maids and Chris's story compelling I think it illustrates a broader

opportunity for side hustlers to provide and perhaps disrupt local service

businesses in general. So if you're thinking yeah well I don't want to clean houses

stay tuned I promise Chris doesn't disappoint in this episode.

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