PC/Graffiti cleaning, Please advise

RedLemon

Hi All,

I am new here, please feel free to remove this if I post it in the wrong place:

I came accross a busniess idea, to clean PC(monitor, keyboards, ...), and grafiti, I can find good cleaning detergent from abroad. The cost is extremely low, (the main cost should be labour cost and marketing cost )
I checked Yellow page and online, seems it's an untouched market in Ireland.
I know there is a long long way from business ideas to earning profit...
Anyone here has anything to share with ? I might need help on the following:

I am not good at marketing and communication myself, and don't have much money to hire a full time employee, and don't want to give up my current job. I am thinking of hiring some students from colleges this summer for marketing ( clients would be call centers, internet cafe, governemnt, citycouncil (Graffiti)...)

Would this be practical in real business?

What would you do step by step if you were in my position?

Thanks in advance...

information

RedLemon wrote:

Hi All,

I am new here, please feel free to remove this if I post it in the wrong place:

I came accross a busniess idea, to clean PC(monitor, keyboards, ...), and grafiti, I can find good cleaning detergent from abroad. The cost is extremely low, (the main cost should be labour cost and marketing cost )
I checked Yellow page and online, seems it's an untouched market in Ireland.
I know there is a long long way from business ideas to earning profit...
Anyone here has anything to share with ? I might need help on the following:

I am not good at marketing and communication myself, and don't have much money to hire a full time employee, and don't want to give up my current job. I am thinking of hiring some students from colleges this summer for marketing ( clients would be call centers, internet cafe, governemnt, citycouncil (Graffiti)...)

Would this be practical in real business?

What would you do step by step if you were in my position?

Thanks in advance...

1: PC cleaning is done by the cleaners in an office, which is a highly competitive market.

2: Your idea is labour intensive, and that is high cost, the materials required may be cheap, but thye usually are in most businesses.

3: In order to start any business you need good marketing.

RedLemon

thanks 'information',

well, seems I am in the wrong direction ... have to give up PC cleaning

anyone has any business about cleaning Graffiti?
I heard something around £200 to clean 1 sq/m, (might be the wrong figure )
is the local council cleaning Graffiti everyyear ? I saw many Graffities are there for years , and years...
who will pay for the cleaning besides the local council ?

DublinWriter

information wrote:

1: PC cleaning is done by the cleaners in an office

Nope. Generally, they don't.

Here's a Irish company I know of that recently won a tender to clean civil service PCs:

http://www.ees.ie/

I think your graffti idea is a better one OP. Have you looked in the Golden Pages for similar companies?

Any crowd I've seen doing graffti removal usually has to do so with an industrial sandblaster.

http://www.e-tenders.gov.ie/ is a good site to see what tenders are currently happening in the public sector.

BigEejit

DublinWriter wrote:

Nope. Generally, they don't.

Here's a Irish company I know of that recently won a tender to clean civil service PCs:

http://www.ees.ie/

I think your graffti idea is a better one OP. Have you looked in the Golden Pages for similar companies?

Any crowd I've seen doing graffti removal usually has to do so with an industrial sandblaster.

http://www.e-tenders.gov.ie/ is a good site to see what tenders are currently happening in the public sector.

I'd suggest looking very closely at the graffiti idea before comitting, a lot of councils just paint over rather than remove because removal costs too much and is rarely 100% effective.

DublinWriter

BigEejit wrote:

I'd suggest looking very closely at the graffiti idea before comitting, a lot of councils just paint over rather than remove because removal costs too much and is rarely 100% effective.

Quite true, plus going through the whole public prucurement process can be a nightware. Maybe OP should offer the service to regular consumers, maybe with the slant of being an 'emergency' graffti remover.

OP...you might also consider that most people are cash-rich time-poor these days and come up with a particular cleaning service that most people hate?

RedLemon

thanks for all the replies, I am thinking about graffiti removal ... :rolleyes:

fintan

The majority of the main cleaning firms will clean keyboards,screens and phones as part of the overall office cleaning package. However, how well they clean them is a different story.

Equipment cleaning used to be a big industry as the equipment was expensive, however these days when you can buy a new keyboard for next to nothing, it can generally be cheaper than cleaning.

Another company who specialises in cleaning computer equipment (both internal and external) including servers is www.DataCleanEurope.ie

They also have an on-line shop and unlike ess, theres works

Forget graffati removal, get yourself a window cleaning round. Much easier!

Cheers

Fintan

RedLemon

fintan wrote:

The majority of the main cleaning firms will clean keyboards,screens and phones as part of the overall office cleaning package. However, how well they clean them is a different story.

Equipment cleaning used to be a big industry as the equipment was expensive, however these days when you can buy a new keyboard for next to nothing, it can generally be cheaper than cleaning.

Another company who specialises in cleaning computer equipment (both internal and external) including servers is www.DataCleanEurope.ie

They also have an on-line shop and unlike ess, theres works

Forget graffati removal, get yourself a window cleaning round. Much easier!

Cheers

Fintan

Thanks Fintan, but I will not give up


I am thinking of setting up a website, showing all the graffiti in Dublin,
wait and see how it goes from there.
I have to say some of the graffities are beautiful, feel sad to remove them.

fintan

Well its actually quiet easy, before you set up a website, call evey premises that has graffiti on its walls and offer them your services.

Maybe explaining how clean walls increase the number of people who will walk through the door etc will help put your prices in perspective.

See what happens and take it from there

BostonB

I know a few walls where the owners would be happy to have you test cleaning the graffiti

bushy...

The problem with removing paints with solvents/stripper is you can't let it into drains while you are doing the cleaning and you must have a proper way of disposing of the solvent/stripper/paint mix/contaminated rags afterwards.For once its for a good reason ,the tiny organisms in the soil near rivers etc turn it into really nasty stuff.
There are a few companies around that will supply you with a drum you can fill with the rags etc and get rid of it for you.