Understanding Ergonomics and How it Affects Your Cleaning Business

Ergonomics has been a “buzzword” throughout many office buildings these days, ... were fifth most likely to be injured on the job. In the janitorial industry, many of the injuries ... forcing the worker to fit the equipment. The objective of using ergonomic products is to reduce stress [more...]

Date: 2008-07-28 03:57:47

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Home Office Pioneer: Domainer Recalls ‘Outing’ by Daughter

Kelly Lieberman is a serial entrepreneur, domain strategist and a devoted mom ... as an entrepreneur. She’s had a successful carpet cleaning business, overseen vast commercial and agricultural ... selling commercial real estate. I hated the hours, and being at the mercy of the agency. I talked [more...]

Date: 2008-12-01 10:33:23

Save the Small Business Assistance Center

I received this email from the Council of District Merchants: ... , and on-line businesses; cleaning and janitorial services; peddler and push cart permit information ... that these services are important to fostering and keeping small businesses in San Francisco, please send [more...]

Date: 2008-12-12 17:11:38

The Bennett Sisters: Constance

Each time the Siren takes a look at celebrity news she is confronted with Somebody's Kid, to the point where it seems stardom has become as heritable as a dry-cleaning business. Talent, however, is often a recessive trait. The Redgraves and Barrymores are the exception, not the rule [more...]

Date: 2008-11-30 01:26:00

The Post-Olympic Lives of 15 Great Athletes

Olympic athletes are undoubtedly the best in the world at what they do, ... his athletic prowess, but he also ran a dry cleaning business, worked as a gas station attendant ... and now owns a civil engineering company in Idaho. Babe Didrikson Olympic Moment: Grabbing three track [more...]

Date: 2008-08-22 05:30:11

The Naturell Franchise Opportunity Meets with Franchise Interviews - Jan 15,2009

Without a college degree Mike Nero, CEO and Founder of Naturell, ... ." Nero had been an employee for a carpet cleaning business and saw the harmful chemicals that were being used in the cleaning solutions. Nero was determined to find a solution that would be less [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 03:59:04

Bringing Back Halloween

I wanna look like this uncle chup This week has been devoted to cleaning and organizing Retro House ... business of this time of the year. There is even a open area in my front room for a Christmas tree. And yes, I am listening to Kozy's Christmas tunes on my radio. This year we are starting early [more...]

Date: 2008-11-14 05:03:34

So Gas Is Cheap. Does it Matter Anymore For Small Businesses?

First the good news: Gasoline prices plummeted a record 29.5% last month ... - and for the tens of thousands of flower shops, house-cleaning businesses and plastics makers ... ? Not so fast. Even though gasoline prices are around four-year lows, shipping companies are still posting [more...]

Date: 2008-12-16 09:44:00

Finding the Best Business Services

There are times when a business has to get in touch with other business for help ... have grabbed a directory and search under ‘C’ for Carpet Cleaners or ‘L’ for London, which ... for your business, be it carpet cleaning in London or catering in Edinburgh. It used [more...]

Date: 2008-11-28 09:33:25

New Year, New Start & Yaro Interviewed Me :)

Well Happy New Year to you all, hopefully by now you are fully settled into 2009 ... Christmas and officially moved in on the 2nd Jan. Since then I have been busy cleaning, decorating, shopping, assembling furniture and all that stuff that goes with making a house a home so that’ [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 13:22:24

Salazar: “Why do we have to move head long to commercial oil shale leasing at this point?”

At the Senate confirmation hearing for Interior Secretary on Thursday, Barack Obama’s nominee, Colorado Sen. Ken Salazar painted a picture of a different kind of Interior Department, should he be confirmed. Salazar said his first order of business would be to clean up an Interior Department troubled [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 09:43:54

New Company Offers Green Spray-Paint Service for Dead Lawns

All those banks trying to sell off foreclosed homes with dead, brown yards have a new, convenient, ... us all a lift around here.” Terlouw, who formerly had a window-cleaning business, said he got the idea ... service for foreclosed homes. From RecordNet, via BoingBoing: For between $175 and $225 per yard [more...]

Date: 2008-10-05 11:30:17

The Six Best Ways to Get Rich….

...and some not so good ways ... . It could be a cleaning business, a hairdresser’s, a consultancy or an investment bank. It will probably ... -up companies then there is an opportunity for a serious capital gain if the company thrives and either [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 13:00:53

Looking Ahead

Something You May Have Missed: It's a lengthy read, but this Vanity Fair article is a fitting sendoff for the Bush administration ... franchise. Book of the Week: The Shotgun Rule by Charlie Huston. A fabulous piece of 'pulp noir ... . I guess something needs to keep women busy at night after the cooking and cleaning are done. Matchup [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 16:30:06

69 Ways To Make Money Without Leaving Home - Business

By Thomas Griffin1. Service Businesses: Things you do for others; repairs, cleaning, child care, etc. 2 ... You Can Make and Sell to Others: handicrafts, ceramics, jewelry. 4. Advertising Representative: sell ad space in publications of others, charge % fee. 5. Alternations, Sewing, Cleaning: Sewing, cleaning [more...]

Date: 2008-12-27 12:30:00

Laying Out A Blueprint For Your New Cleaning Service

Any new business is exciting; the fact that you are venturing into unknown or fresh territory can send shivers down your spine ... but it is a needed job and as long as there are places to clean, then a janitorial service will never [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 16:51:25

4th Annual Neighborhood-Business Area Collaborative Graffiti Clean Ups

01/14/2009 Is graffiti a problem in your neighborhood? If so, you need to act on this opportunity STAT.. ... and will be a combined effort by City-contracted graffiti removal crews, and a minimum of 10 volunteers ... . The City of Portland Graffiti Abatement program will sponsor eight Saturday morning graffiti [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 03:47:00

Another Recession Cocktail

I had a busy weekend around the house washing windows, cleaning out gutters, shampooing carpets - and other stuff besides. Now all I have left is to get some bulbs in when we get a nice day.After I took the carpet shampooer back to Home Depot, I was ready for a stiff drink, so I stirred up another one of the recipes [more...]

Date: 2008-11-30 22:28:00

69 Ways To Make Money Without Leaving Home - Business

by Thomas Griffin 1. Service Businesses: Things you do for others; repairs, cleaning, child care, etc. 2 ... You Can Make and Sell to Others: handicrafts, ceramics, jewelry. 4. Advertising Representative: sell ad space in publications of others, charge % fee. 5. Alternations, Sewing, Cleaning: Sewing, cleaning [more...]

Date: 2008-12-20 19:41:41

69 Ways To Make Money Without Leaving Home - Business

by Thomas Griffin 1. Service Businesses: Things you do for others; repairs, cleaning, child care, etc. 2 ... You Can Make and Sell to Others: handicrafts, ceramics, jewelry. 4. Advertising Representative: sell ad space in publications of others, charge % fee. 5. Alternations, Sewing, Cleaning: Sewing, cleaning [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 09:10:51

69 Ways To Make Money Without Leaving Home - Business

by Thomas Griffin 1. Service Businesses: Things you do for others; repairs, cleaning, child care, etc. 2 ... You Can Make and Sell to Others: handicrafts, ceramics, jewelry. 4. Advertising Representative: sell ad space in publications of others, charge % fee. 5. Alternations, Sewing, Cleaning: Sewing, cleaning [more...]

Date: 2008-12-27 12:32:19

69 Ways To Make Money Without Leaving Home - Business

by Thomas Griffin 1. Service Businesses: Things you do for others; repairs, cleaning, child care, etc. 2 ... You Can Make and Sell to Others: handicrafts, ceramics, jewelry. 4. Advertising Representative: sell ad space in publications of others, charge % fee. 5. Alternations, Sewing, Cleaning: Sewing, cleaning [more...]

Date: 2008-12-21 16:29:02

69 Ways To Make Money Without Leaving Home - Business

by Thomas Griffin 1. Service Businesses: Things you do for others; repairs, cleaning, child care, etc. 2 ... You Can Make and Sell to Others: handicrafts, ceramics, jewelry. 4. Advertising Representative: sell ad space in publications of others, charge % fee. 5. Alternations, Sewing, Cleaning: Sewing, cleaning [more...]

Date: 2008-12-21 16:28:56

69 Ways To Make Money Without Leaving Home - Business

by Thomas Griffin 1. Service Businesses: Things you do for others; repairs, cleaning, child care, etc. 2 ... You Can Make and Sell to Others: handicrafts, ceramics, jewelry. 4. Advertising Representative: sell ad space in publications of others, charge % fee. 5. Alternations, Sewing, Cleaning: Sewing, cleaning [more...]

Date: 2008-12-25 16:05:22

69 Ways To Make Money Without Leaving Home - Business

by Thomas Griffin 1. Service Businesses: Things you do for others; repairs, cleaning, child care, etc. 2 ... You Can Make and Sell to Others: handicrafts, ceramics, jewelry. 4. Advertising Representative: sell ad space in publications of others, charge % fee. 5. Alternations, Sewing, Cleaning: Sewing, cleaning [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 10:11:20

69 Ways To Make Money Without Leaving Home - Business

by Thomas Griffin 1. Service Businesses: Things you do for others; repairs, cleaning, child care, etc. 2 ... You Can Make and Sell to Others: handicrafts, ceramics, jewelry. 4. Advertising Representative: sell ad space in publications of others, charge % fee. 5. Alternations, Sewing, Cleaning: Sewing, cleaning [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 10:08:52

69 Ways To Make Money Without Leaving Home - Business

by Thomas Griffin 1. Service Businesses: Things you do for others; repairs, cleaning, child care, etc. 2 ... You Can Make and Sell to Others: handicrafts, ceramics, jewelry. 4. Advertising Representative: sell ad space in publications of others, charge % fee. 5. Alternations, Sewing, Cleaning: Sewing, cleaning [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 21:15:18

slow and steady wins the race

right?? I've been busy cleaning.  It dawned on me yesterday that the kids have this coming Monday off school, as does Pa from work - making it a wonderful opportunity to get these rooms switched [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 18:33:01

Minnesota nonsense

By Sean Casten News from the Super-Shoddy Climate Change Reporting desk: The Bemidji Pioneer broke this story on Tuesday: ... clean energy source for consumers, farms and businesses in the Upper Midwest," is lamenting the fact ... a stop to coal-fired power plant construction. Setting any moral judgments aside [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 07:05:15

In-Home Getaway

JP and I have had a few opportunities to get away since Landon has been born, ... things came together to create the perfect mini vacation: my office was closed for MLK, JP's classes ... the rest of the day running some much needed errands and cleaning the house. JP got three business [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 03:56:00

Health Care Facilities: A Profitable Niche for Your Cleaning Business

A growing area that offers plenty of opportunity and potential profit for building service contractors is cleaning health care facilities. Besides hospitals, there are nursing homes, doctor’s offices, clinics, hospices, and dental offices that all need cleaning [more...]

Date: 2008-07-09 07:59:53

ORIGINS, PART IV

  Within my first six months as a Christian I had read the New Testament several times, ... change into what was called house cleaning. That was the business of casting out all those demons [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 02:40:08

Homeowner Luncheon

Homeowner Luncheon Submitted by Tiffiney on 15 January 2009 - 11:52am ... and operate a vacation home cleaning business. In all of the years (approximately six years ... I don't work directly for the management company, I am an independent contractor. Being an independent [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 16:52:05

Basic toolbox for the home

Basic toolbox for the homeby Francesca Clarke on Jul 22nd 2008 11:00AMFiled under fix-it, organization and storage ... him -- you know, the part that's not too busy teasing him! Whether you're cleaning out an old overstuffed ... want to include these 11 must-have tools. Including the essentials, like a hammer, level, pliers [more...]

Date: 2008-07-22 11:00:00

The mecca of renewable energy

In these dismal economic times, it’s remarkable that 15,000 to 20,000 people traveled to Abu Dhabi, of all places, for a clean-energy conference. The renewable energy business, after all, is reeling from the global recession, the credit crunch and the precipitous drop in the price of oil. Signs of distress are not hard to find. There hasn’ [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 14:58:50

Serious Discounts That You May Be Passing Up Unknowingly

An average week sees us enter into many dealings with retailers and businesses. Think of the plumber or duct cleaning company you called this week ... to provide these services in exchange for money. Yet there may be discounts you qualify ... discount on the total price. Businesses that provide entertainment services often offer [more...]

Date: 2008-07-07 11:26:15

Save Cash For Your Business By Using Remanufactured HP 5550 Toner

Without printers, modern society's offices and businesses could not work properly. A printer is only as good as the HP color toner you put in it ... but also better for the environment. Many companies are in the business of refilling, cleaning [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 11:01:14

Amateur Wife

I got an email from this guy the other day who wanted to share his story about his amateur wife and their experiences with making their own ... bit of surfing in between and she wasn’t making business contacts! Last weekend I was cleaning [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 02:14:18

Opportunity is Knocking….

Opportunity is Knocking…. Posted on Monday, 8th December 2008 by UC&P With the economy the way it is today there are a few options available if ... . This is the be chance now to open up business. You can consider something like a dry cleaning franchise. Wealthy people need dry cleaning, right? Not just wealthy people but most of all people dry cle [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 03:54:34

Is a Commercial Cleaning Franchise Right for Me?

Businesses in both retail and industrial have the need for regular cleaning and maintenance services. Even in times of economic downturn, commercial cleaning franchises thrive. [more...]

Date: 2008-08-11 00:00:00

Sunshine Cleaning Movie Trailer #2

A couple weeks ago, we posted the first trailer for Sunshine Cleaning, ... cheerleader and now a thirty-something maid, is trying to create a better life for herself and eccentric ... . When Rose learns of the big money to be made in the crime scene cleaning and bio-hazard removal business [more...]

Date: 2008-10-14 21:55:40

Amazon Adds New Service: Public Data Sets

Amazon announced the released of a new web service today that aims to facilitate easier access to open, public data sets ... and only pay for their compute time — they won’t have to worry about storing, downloading, or cleaning the actual data. According to Amazon business development manager Deepak Singh, the new program “ [more...]

Date: 2008-12-04 20:55:19

Help The Environment By Using Remanufactured HP 1500 Toner

Our offices, workplaces and companies cannot work in modern times without printers. Printers require HP, just like our offices need printers ... . Many companies are in the business of refilling, cleaning and repairing printer cartridges for reuse [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 11:01:15

Clever and Creative Billboard Advertising

January 5th, 2009 | Inspiration | Creative uses of billboards in advertising campaigns by various companies ... in cotton with self cleaning effect were placed on a really busy road. After a few weeks ... tiles. link Fitness Billboard Time for Silberman’s Fitness Center . link House [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 19:50:58

Startups at Headstart 2009 - Day 2

Estimated reading time The Day 1 highlights were covered in the previous post ... bodies (8) biokleen_labs BioKleen Labs showcasing their environmentally friendly, non-toxic, bio-degradable cleaning products for home and business (9) snappyfingers_logo_large Snappyfingers [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 17:07:56

Things I'm watching

**Project Runway. Woot-woot! New season started last week making me a very happy couch potato camper! ... . He has been making us proud and our lives easier by going out on his own in our business truck doing air duct and furnace cleaning jobs. He has been dependable, responsible, thorough and efficient [more...]

Date: 2008-07-21 23:33:54

10 things your maid wants you to know

You certainly don’t need to clean your house before I come, but the less clutter knick-knacks and personal items on your shelves and countertops, ... (along with the dishes from the party you had last week) it’s going to take more time, and your cleaning ... my best. I’m in the service business and I really want to make you happy. That’s my job [more...]

Date: 2008-10-20 00:57:46

What is the most effective advertising for a start up small business?

Its a gutter cleaning service using an industrial vac. I have already leaflet dropped and have got some work from that, but I want to expand the advertising. I have missed this years listing [more...]

Date: 2008-12-07 04:24:20

Grab A Fanboy And Kiss Them: It's 'Watchmen' V-J Day! [Timelines]

The superstudio showdown that pit Fox against Warners over a long-forgotten Watchmen rights claim discovered behind a potted ficus by an after-hours cleaning woman (who's since been upped VP Business Affairs) is finally over! Lawyers on both sides were scheduled to present their motion just minutes ago to Judge Gary Feess. THR reports: Terms [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 17:28:07

Gadget Gifts: Keep it Neat!

Posted on 21.11.08 comments (1) Labels: 08' Holiday Gift Guide, Gadgets, Organization It has finally happened for me ... to eliminate the wasteful spending. I can find that business card a friend gave me for carpet cleaning ... , lightweight, very portable scanner with some incredibly useful software. The installation is quick [more...]

Date: 2008-11-21 17:08:00

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