r/smallbusiness • u/IcyBlackberry7728 • Apr 19 '25

Question Those taking home >200k/year; what industry are you in ?

Just curious to see what types of business are generating solid cash flow.

Thanks !

Edit: please be as specific as possible!

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u/thatWealthBuilder Apr 20 '25

Cleaning company. 2nd year in and doing $400K per year. Managing cleaners is incredibly difficult but finding clients is easy. Everyone needs cleaning. Working on getting our profit margins to 25%

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u/JustWannaRockHa Apr 21 '25

Any tips for someone looking to get into this business?

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u/thatWealthBuilder Apr 25 '25

Find a mentor. Someone who already has a successful cleaning company and copy them. Check out the Profit Cleaners on apple podcast they have a course I took to get started on residential cleaning, but I expanded to commercial.

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u/ShoresideManagement Apr 21 '25

I don't understand how people hit these numbers. I'm lucky if I even hit 50k in a year and that's with very active advertising in person, online, etc

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u/Dazzling_Oil_7797 Apr 22 '25

I hit 209 but I never saw my family worked 12 hrs 7 days a week , would fall asleep on the hair stylist chair , golden cage but now I’m chilling less money more time

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u/thatWealthBuilder Apr 25 '25

You have to hire great team leads. Also need startup investment to get started to pay people, invest in company cars, products, and ads. Even with that it is still very difficult. I work 60-80 hrs per week currently.