A woman has detailed how she went from being financially dependent on her husband to becoming a self-made millionaire after starting her own cleaning business at the age of 23.
Jennifer Hernandez has been sharing her story and giving advice to other aspiring entrepreneurs on her @tropicalcleanings_ TikTok page, which has earned more than 67,5000 followers in just weeks.
The mom, who now has residential and commercial cleaning businesses, went viral last month after claiming she pulls in $600,000 a month.
Hernandez said she cleans fives office a day, seven days a week, and charges $250 each, which totals $8,759 per week. She also has 20 employees who work eight-hour shifts and make her $1,000 a day each.
‘Do the math…$600,000 per month,’ she wrote in the on-screen text. ‘Growth in the cleaning industry is fast and real. I’m a 23-year-old who simply said, “Let’s do it.” You can too.’
TikTok user Jennifer Hernandez went viral after claiming she rakes in $600,000 a month from the cleaning business she started when she was 23
Hernandez said she cleans fives office a day, seven days a week, and charges $250 each, which totals $8,759 per week. She also has 20 employees who make her $1,000 a day each
The entrepreneur explained that she started the cleaning business because it was cheap, and she stressed that anyone can get into the industry if they are willing to hustle at first
The video has been viewed more than seven million times, and many commenters wanted to know how she got started.
Hernandez has posted dozens of clips over the past month while answering questions about her growing business and sharing tips for getting started.
She explained that she was six months pregnant and had a baby to care for when she first launched her business.
‘I had a big ole belly cleaning these people’s houses. They felt so bad for me. I also had a one-year-old that I was taking with me. I would sit him in the stroller, and I would clean these people’s houses,’ she recalled.
Her husband soon quit his $18-an-hour job to help her grow her business, but she noted that they continued to take their child to work with them until they could afford a nanny a few months later.
‘When you want something…you will go get it,’ she said. ‘It doesn’t matter what happens, you have a way, and you will find a way.’
Hernandez, who didn’t have any investment money when she first launched her business, has also shared her tips for getting started if you can’t afford to get insurance and register your business.
She advised joining various apps, including Homeaglow, which pairs residential cleaners with clients. She also advertised her business to her neighbors for free using the Nextdoor app.
Hernandez also shared that she was six months pregnant and had a one-year-old to care for when she first launched her business, saying she’d bring her son to clean with her
The self-made millionaire advised joining different apps to book clients and advertise your business if you can’t afford to invest money into your startup just yet
She has stressed in her videos that her commercial cleaning contracts are the ones that make her big money, but she had to build up to those opportunities
‘You can write a post saying, “Hey, guys, I’m starting my little cleaning business, and I would like to start taking on a few clients. Message me if you’re interested” — or whatever it is you feel in your heart that you would like to say,’ she said.
‘Let me tell you something. People will reach out to you. This app is loaded with business opportunities.’
In addition to the apps, Hernandez recommended purchasing a magnetic business sign and placing it on your car to attract new customers.
‘When you’re cleaning people’s houses, people are driving by,’ she explained. ‘They’re like, “Oh, that’s a cleaning business. Let me call them.” Do you know how much business I got by people just driving by [and] seeing the logo on my car?’
She has stressed in her videos that her commercial cleaning contracts are the ones that make her big money, but she had to build up to those opportunities.
Hernandez said her husband left his $18-an-hour job to help her grow her business soon after she got started
Hernandez now runs separate residential and commercial cleaning businesses in two different states
She claimed that she ‘went from broke to rich in a matter of weeks’ after she got started
Hernandez noted in a recent clip that she doesn’t even clean anymore because she hired a team to do it for her while she travels from state to state to manage her businesses
‘When I started out, I got my feet wet with residential, and then I started going Airbnb vacation homes,’ she said.
From there, she moved on to hotels, gyms, and shipping facilities before she started booking office cleaning gigs.
She eventually launched a second cleaning business in another state, and her residential and commercial cleaning companies have remained separate.
‘I personally don’t do the cleaning anymore because I have an amazing team that does this for me,’ she noted in a recent clip.
‘I am usually back and forth from state to state managing my cleaning businesses, but when I did do these cleanings, I was doing them every single day.’
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