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I was forced to go full time 3 months into my choice to switch to this profession, it was extremely hard to get business, but I was really naive thinking it would just come to me if I did good work. We scraped by for 2 months and I got another job until I was ready to go full time.

Some advice knowing what I know now:

* Work a full 40 + hour week, whether it's selling or working, you should be doing something to keep the business flowing. This could include keeping your name in front of people by handing out post cards or walking business to business talking to them about how you can help them. Don't be lazy!
* Get a website and work on it until your customers can find you based on the services you provide and where you provide those services (Research SEO).
* Learn as much as you can about what you are selling, you want your sales pitch to come out easily and you want to show enthusiasm and confidence in your product, this makes closing the deal much much easier.
* I can't stress enough how important it is to to talk to people about your business as much as possible. Talk to friends and family. Definitely leave your information to neighbors of your customers and talk to them if possible.

As Ed said, cleaning is pretty easy in most cases, it's getting the phone to ring and keeping it ringing that is tough to do, especially in the first year and especially in the winter for a lot of us. However, it can definitely be done and there are several people here who have had much success in their first year and can credit a lot of it to this very forum.