Start-up Costs For Maid And Janitorial Services

While most cleaning service owners in the industry admit to using personal finances and savings to capitalize on their cleaning business, some choose to take out loans. Especially for bigger or expanding cleaning businesses, it is sometimes essential to borrow money from various financing firms to buy equipment, rent larger spaces [more...]

Date: 2008-12-16 03:51:04

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How to price house cleaning services

Ask FSB’s experts demystify the math of pricing services in the booming home and office cleaning industry. Joe Vitale, New York City I currently own a carpet-cleaning business that is about six years old. I am thinking of expanding into home and office cleaning, but have no idea on how to bid the jobs [more...]

Date: 2008-10-14 13:04:50

The Molly Maid Difference – What Sets Them Apart From Other Service Franchises?

If you have been watching the franchising industry closely for some time now, ... categories – residential cleaning (maid) and commercial cleaning (janitorial) services. Among these two ... , it is the sister organization of other top franchises like Mr. Handyman and DUCTZ Air Duct Cleaning [more...]

Date: 2008-07-17 08:26:57

Starting Up A Cleaning Service - The Three Basic Types

Setting up a cleaning business is like any other endeavor – one of the first things you need to do is to choose which specific area you could start ... prudent of all three is residential cleaning. The skills and equipment involved in this area ... that it has created an individual niche in the cleaning industry. Also, there are special equipment [more...]

Date: 2008-12-10 03:56:49

Duct Cleaning Pros Cons

In this post I will try to give an unbiased view regarding the pros and cons of duct cleaning ... with just one furnace. No Haggling Over Prices - Unlike other domestic services, duct cleaning should be easy ... . Having been involved in the duct cleaning industry for so many years it might be a little [more...]

Date: 2008-04-18 23:31:01

Clean Harbors: Buying Trash Stocks

Clean Harbors Inc. (CLHB) is the largest hazardous waste management in North America. The company provides services that include transportation and disposal, industrial cleaning and maintenance, chemical packaging and emergency response to more than 45,000 customers in 36 [more...]

Date: 2008-11-16 12:21:52

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

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

Pharmaceutical Field Sales Exec- Midland

Our Client is one of the major players in the Irish Hygiene supplies and services market ... silent closing waste disposal bins, industrial and commercial floor cleaning equipment, and most ... . The company deals with suppliers of cleaning equipment, chemicals and other hygiene products [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 16:27:27

Field Sales Exec- Mullingar

Our Client is one of the major players in the Irish Hygiene supplies and services market ... include silent closing waste disposal bins, industrial and commercial floor cleaning equipment, and most ... needs. The company deals with suppliers of cleaning equipment, chemicals and other hygiene products [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 15:58:40

The New Employee’s First Day

Originally published April 8, 2008. It’s a great day at Newman Industries! ... , not provide janitorial services,” he thinks. While cleaning out the desk, he finds a farewell card [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 10:22:00

Robots to Service Industry: “Werr in Ur Economic Niche Fraggin Ur Employment Opportunities lulz”

Experts in the field of robotics say that in the next decade, ... robots make chores like vacuuming, mowing, and gutter cleaning a thing of the past for their owners ... robots will have an increasing presence in low-level service industry positions–thus potentially [more...]

Date: 2008-08-22 18:27:40

Headlice: A Key To Start A New Cleaning Company

Billions of dollars are thrown into keeping your house clean. Nothing compares to walking into a fresh, clean smelling home ... services that will save you money by selling you cleaners in bulk. By having these industrial strength ... . When all is said and done you will see that industrial headlice removal could be the perfect fit [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 20:01:03

The Great Automaker Bailout: A Question of When, Not If

So the folks behind the Big 2.5 Amerian automakers—GM, Ford, ... , the auto industry, the corporate dry cleaning mafia, home mortgage owners, you name it), that sounds pretty ... Financial Services Committee, said the economy would be devastated if an automaker were forced [more...]

Date: 2008-12-06 18:44:00

Three french hens, two turtle doves and $500 of gasoline

On the lighter side: I got a kick out of this new home promotion featured in today's print edition of Home Front ... . But the deals included $500 in gas money, $500 for grocery money, a year's free cleaning services, a year's free ... Angeles-based KB Home, according to statistics from the North State Building Industry Association." [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 01:02:39

Non-Coin-Operated Laundromats & Dry Cleaners in the US

  Shrinking Growth Previous years have seen this mature industry shrink and the next few years may see those who remain taken to the cleaners ... for laundries and/or dry cleaners; and* providing specialty cleaning services for specific types ... garments, wedding gowns, hats, draperies and pillows.These establishments may provide [more...]

Date: 2008-07-02 05:54:03

Non-Coin-Operated Laundromats & Dry Cleaners in the US

Shrinking Growth Previous years have seen this mature industry shrink and the next few years may see those who remain taken to the cleaners ... for laundries and/or dry cleaners; and* providing specialty cleaning services for specific types ... garments, wedding gowns, hats, draperies and pillows.These establishments may provide [more...]

Date: 2008-07-01 10:17:49

Start the year clean: Engage the kids, repurpose old items

There’s something about the new year that brings on a cleaning frenzy in my life ... training with our kids will pay many dividends in getting the cleaning job done … together. Marlo ... this? I spoke with Amy Olson, spokesperson for THE MAIDS Home Services, to find some industry tips [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 18:04:09

Work At Home Industry

Work At Home Industry There’s hardly anything more comfortable and satisfying than work-at-home jobs ... your car-parking and dry cleaning bills. So, are you all set to become a part of the growing work-at-home ... deserve mention. brandEXPANSION is the leading full-service franchise opportunity company [more...]

Date: 2008-07-09 06:32:16

Pretending To Fly In California

The Press Democrat reports from California. “The collapse of the housing bubble continues to reverberate through Sonoma County, according to a report issued Tuesday. Just over half of the homes sold in August were dumped by desperate owners trying to avoid foreclosure or by banks that seized them from borrowers who fell behind on their mortgages [more...]

Date: 2008-09-17 19:31:08

Grass Fed Meat: our true environmental savior

How many times have you heard that we need to eat more vegetarian fare to curb Climate Change? ... .. The figures Suzuki and Greenpeace are working from actually reveal what industrial factory farming is using ... . No ruminant should be eating grain or soy. Industrial agriculture only does so because governments subsidise [more...]

Date: 2009-01-04 15:45:18

Grass Fed Meat: our true environmental savior

How many times have you heard that we need to eat more vegetarian fare to curb Climate Change? ... .. The figures Suzuki and Greenpeace are working from actually reveal what industrial factory farming is using ... . No ruminant should be eating grain or soy. Industrial agriculture only does so because governments [more...]

Date: 2008-11-30 14:18:55

Could the Satyam/PwC fraud be the visible part of an iceberg? Where are India’s “Generally Accepted Accounting Principles”? Isn’t governance rather poor all over corporate India? Bad public finance may be a root cause

  In a March 5 2007 article in The Statesman, I said: “Our farmers are peaceful hardworking people who should be paying taxes and user-fees normally but should not be otherwise disturbed or needlessly provoked by outsiders. It is the businessmen wishing to attack our farm populations who need to look hard in the mirror – to improve their [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 07:40:36

Worldchanging's Best Foreign Correspondents

This article was written by Alex Steffen in December 2007. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. We have a global network of writers, but a handful of them are regular columnists and contributors. For instance, Mara has done a great job as Worldchanging's China correspondent, [more...]

Date: 2008-09-25 20:09:58

Bush/Cheney: Working Overtime to Revise History

Chrysler, Ford Extend Holiday Shutdowns to Save CashUSA TodayAs automakers await a White House decision on federal loans, they took more steps Wednesday to save their dwindling cash and cut production to keep pace slower sales.Chrysler said it would add two weeks to its scheduled two-week holiday shutdown of production facilities — all 30 of its [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 13:58:00

Timeshifting - How to Control The Speed of Time

Dr. Rechtschaffen’s book Timeshifting grew out of the workshops he leads on the creative use of time. Unlike time-management courses which teach people how to work efficiently at an ever-accelerating pace, Rechtschaffen’s basic premise is that it is crucial to learn how to “timeshift,” to move smoothly from fast to medium to slow and back again [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 16:40:53

Job Stats Of The Damned

September 2008: the Great Helmsman brags to the Party Conference: "It is not the arithmetic of statistics but the fabric of people's lives ... between 1998 and 2006 have been in sectors dominated by public services: health, education, social ... , they are not an investment. They provide services that must be paid for, and in the coming recession it is hard [more...]

Date: 2008-11-29 18:36:00

January 7, 2009

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow. Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855)The Russian monopoly natural gas provider has turned off the gas to over one dozen countries, but it i the former ‘Soviet bloc’ countries, Serbia, Bulgaria et al that are taking the hit.   I think it’s also payback for those same Eastern European countries who have now gone Euro [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 11:51:35

Предсказания Кюнстлера на 2009 - США, Нефть, Геополитика, Путин

Спонсор месяца - #1 RX pharmacy affiliate program!Сайт дня (как попасть) - http://www.business-magazine.ru/There are two realities "out there" now competing for verification among those who think about national affairs and make things happen. The dominant one (let's call it the Status Quo) [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 07:59:00

Dulsco contributes to Dubai Municipality recycling computers’ initiative

December 3, 2008: Dulsco announced recently that it has donated its surplus used desktop and laptop computers to Dubai Municipality’s program to ... the principles of reduce, recycle and reuse. The company has an effective and dedicated environment policy ... its support to Dubai Municipality in various community-oriented ventures in future too. The compa [more...]

Date: 2008-12-03 14:39:38

First Draft Of Stimulus Package

SUMMARY: AMERICAN RECOVERY AND REINVESTMENT Action and Action Now! The economy is in a crisis not seen since the Great Depression. Credit is frozen, consumer purchasing power is in decline, in the last four months the country has lost 2 million jobs and we are expected to lose another 3 to 5 million in the next year [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 23:03:30

Forecast for 2009

Introduction       There are two realities "out there" now competing for verification among those who think about national affairs and make things happen. The dominant one (let's call it the Status Quo) is that our problems of finance and economy will self-correct and allow the project of a "consumer" economy to resume in "growth" mode [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 03:33:57

4Q08.1 EARNINGS - ZEP, Bullish: INFY, SCHW, JPM

Last Friday's "sell into the close" call has been timely as SRS was up nearly 12% yesterday, while airlines (~5%) and dry bulk shippers (~10%) ... and provides cleaning/maintenance products mainly to industrial customers including autobody shops ... .  The reults disappointed as usual, but a poorly managed company is not a good barometer of answering [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 02:31:27

Global Human Rights Groups Protest Slaughter in Gaza

By STEPHEN LENDMAN(Picture by Ben Heine)On June 16, 2008, noted Israeli historian Ilan Pappe explained "The Israeli Recipe for 2008: Genocide in Gaza, Ethnic Cleaning in the West Bank." He wrote:"Not long ago, I claimed that Israel is employing genocidal policies in the Gaza Strip." After re-thinking this highly-charged term, he "concluded [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 19:32:00

Stepmothers of Invention: Branding Firms Enter the Industrial Design Fray, by Carl Alviani

In a perfect world, we wouldn't need to sell what we design--people would just know. When Industrial Designers imagine utopia, it's not only full of beautiful, functional products ... Your Car Twist had a problem. By all appearances, the young Colorado-based company had everything [more...]

Date: 2008-10-03 23:43:53

Workers take early Tet holiday due to falling exports

Several export and processing companies in the central province of Da Nang have allowed their workers to leave for the Tet holiday from January 17, ... their production, and are cleaning up their machinery and workshops. Workers said that contrary ... and network security services around the clock during Tet – even during New Year’s eve. However, this year [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 10:46:00

California Clean Tech Open Winners

Last Thursday was the California Clean Tech Open in which 6 winners were each given an entrepreneur’s dream package: ... (they seem to be targeting the large residential or small commercial level) so that they run on 20% less ... waste that requires no special cleaning, recycles all its water, generates no carbon dioxide [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 15:52:51

State R&D awards announced: Safe chocolate, green heaters and more

The Washington Technology Center just announced eight recipients of $561,971 in research and development grants ... and HEATCON Composite Systems, a Seattle composite repair equipment supplier, are collaborating ... Engineering to develop algorithms to control the cleaning of heat-transfer surfaces in industrial processes [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 00:30:11

Kelly on the brave new world of industrial relations

Paymasters paidPaul Kelly pulls no punches on the economic lunacy of the Rudd's Government's new, very union-friendly industrial relations system: ... and services sectors, but less so in manufacturing. First, the new commission, called Fair Work Australia, is more powerful and influential than the former Australian Industrial Relations Commission [more...]

Date: 2008-11-29 22:02:00

The 25 Most Vicious Iraq War Profiteers

The Iraq war is many things to different people. It is called a strategic blunder and a monstrous injustice and sometimes even a patriotic mission, much to the chagrin of rational human beings. For many big companies, however, the war ... of the so-called “military-industrial complex.” Media pundits are outraged at private companies [more...]

Date: 2008-07-22 23:02:29

Hatsune Miku’s New Career as Sex Worker

Virtual idol Hatsune Miku looks to be moonlighting as a hostess in a seedy Kabukicho hostess bar; the lady above, ... . As you can see from her profile, below, Ms Hatsune was born in Gifu and lists her hobby as “cleaning ... s sex-industrial capital, Shinjuku’s Kabukicho – it’s not really clear, for obvious reasons [more...]

Date: 2008-10-22 06:28:26

2009 Top Stocks: Forecasts for 2009

There are two realities "out there" now competing for verification among those who think about national affairs and make things happen. The dominant one (let's call it the Status Quo ) is that our problems of finance and economy will self-correct and allow the project of a "consumer" economy to resume in "growth" mode [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 08:16:00

2009 Top Stocks: Forecasts for 2009

There are two realities "out there" now competing for verification among those who think about national affairs and make things happen. The dominant one (let's call it the Status Quo ) is that our problems of finance and economy will self-correct and allow the project of a "consumer" economy to resume in "growth" mode [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 08:16:00

2009 Top Stocks: Forecasts for 2009

There are two realities "out there" now competing for verification among those who think about national affairs and make things happen. The dominant one (let's call it the Status Quo ) is that our problems of finance and economy will self-correct and allow the project of a "consumer" economy to resume in "growth" mode [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 08:16:00

Welcome…. Bienvenue…Willkommen … London Calling…. I have the pleasure of opening the batting for the series of 2009 Blawg Reviews. I did my first Blawg Review exactly a year ago.  I cannot quite believe that a year has gone by so rapidly and that I am one step closer to my own (free) trip across the River Styx [more...]

Date: 2009-01-04 21:38:19

New Washer Dryer Economics

Today, as part of our New Year, new approach to doing things (which hopefully will be better than last years for all of us), we will start the talk about business, money and economics with a washer and a dryer.  Before I hear the jokes and jeering about “cleaning up” our “laundering” cash, I want to point out how [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 05:09:51

Technology Offer: Electric Drivetrain System (EDS) Technology for LEV/EV Applications

Magdyno is a provider of permanent magnetic electromotive technology and power package custom solutions to the Light Electric Vehicle (LEV) ... is in the field of electric drive trains and charger/battery applications for industrial and leisure ... and America, with ongoing projects from floor-cleaning machines to electric sailplanes and boats [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 16:34:24

Julie Magee in Daily Echo (Bournemouth) for Monday 5 January 2009 covers the story of private agencies being paid lavishly by NHS thus cutting down services “Outrage as doctor earns £157 an hour” -The Taxpayers’ Alliance campaign group comment. Re-branding is a fools game. Come back olden times, all is forgiven…

23h01-UTC Monday 05 January 2009-CEThe Taxpayers’ Alliance campaign group said of the Thatherised privatised effed-up National Health Service of UK ... that they would cut costs by shifting services from public ownership to private. They impressed ME. Did ... deception of our post-1960s social and industrial syntho-structure is cracking, shedding [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 23:22:23

I can see less miles

Alameda NayTiff brought up some thought-provoking issues, first:Both the Park and Webster street shopping areas are in fairly high density areas. (Does anyone have specific data on this?) Both have apartment buildings nearby and have multiple local and transbay bus lines. Do you consider these areas successful? [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 15:00:21

Business idea 11. House cleaning service

Description of Job • Clean, vacuum, and neaten homes or apartments. • Carry out other services as requested by the client. • Perform turnover cleaning of rental properties. The Need Most of us, unless we live in a hotel (or in a dorm room and don’t care), are responsible for cleaning our house or apartment [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 13:52:51

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