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Management, Supervion and Marketing
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Carpet,Upholstery and Drapery
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Inspections and Claims
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Self Employment and Small Business Management
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Household Cleaning and Maid Services
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How to Sell & Price Contract Cleaning See details
How to Sell & Price Contract Cleaning
This 900 page reference manual is packed full of sound business advice to help you put together a winning proposal and a competitive bid for cleaning services. This book includes bid estimate sheets, time and production standards, supply usage charts, blank forms, job specifications, legal contracts, and markup tables for labor, products and supplies. This nuts and bolts guide is ideal for building owners, property managers and contract cleaners dealing with all types and sizes of properties.
900 pages
Binding: Paper
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Everything You Need to Know to Start a House Cleaning Service See details
Everything You Need to Know to Start a House Cleaning Service

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A house cleaning or maid service is an ideal full or part time business for students, single parents, the retired and others wanting a flexible schedule and an income of $15 to $35 per hour. Author Mary Johnson began her business, Dial-A-Mop, with a thirty-five dollar investment and built it into an operation generating over $170,000 a year and employing twelve people. Johnson shares the secrets of her success as she explains how to avoid unnecessary hassles and setbacks on the road to profit and professional service. Included are sample forms for recording financial and employee data, estimates, schedules and bids. Important tips are given on advertising, bidding, accounting, insurance, competitors, vacations, safety, products, supplies, equipment and employees.
232 pages
Binding: Paper
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Straight Talk About Window Cleaning Bidding See details
Straight Talk About Window Cleaning Bidding
The First-of-its-kind book is filled with practical bidding advice and pieces of information that most window cleaners and janitorial companies may take for granted. Highlights of the book include the following: A list of question one should ask when bidding, a breakdown of the different methods of bidding each type of window cleaning, and a look at the bidding philosophies that create profitable companies or send them into ruin.
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Speed Cleaning for Homes and Apartments See details
Speed Cleaning for Homes and Apartments
This graphic and witty book provides a simple system with step by step procedures that will help you clean a house, room or apartment fast and effectively. The authors are San Francisco's preeminent house cleaning service and clean over 10,000 homes and apartments each year.
194 pages
Binding: Paper
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Special Areas - Chapter 4 (CCTM) See details
Special Areas - Chapter 4 (CCTM)
Each lesson in Chapter Four covers a special cleaning challenge or area. Contents include cleaning metal, draperies, elevators, kitchens, hotels and many other areas. (An Instructor's Guide is Available) Also includes a special appendix of terminology and useful information. 64 pagesɂinding Paperback.
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Selling Professionally See details
Selling Professionally
Whether you're selling toilet paper, chemicals or cleaning services, this popular book will help you open new doors. The author, President of Big D Chemical Company in Oklahoma City, is a favorite speaker at conventions and seminars related to the cleaning and maintenance industries.
This book discusses everything from techniques to organization, from sales territory to demonstrations. It is helpful to any cleaning-related salesperson: even the sales manager will find it a handy source of topics for training and motivational meetings. An industry classic.
129 pages
Binding: Paperback
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School Custodian's Handbook See details
School Custodian's Handbook
Covers such topics as safety, health, physical plant maintenance, and cleaning techniques for common areas found in schools, universities, and colleges. An easy to use and understand, illustrated training manual with eight sections in a three-ring binder. We can customize this manual for a school district. Call for price. 90 pagesɂinding 3 ring.
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Residential Carpet Installation Standard CRI-105 See details
Residential Carpet Installation Standard CRI-105
The nationally accepted carpet installation standard for residential properties, this book details techniques, principles, and workmanship standards for the installation of carpeting in residential locations. Information includes such topics as tools, materials, floor preparation, installation in special areas, diagrams and charts. This book is of particular value to carpet installers, cleaners, retailers, inspectors, architects, interior designers, owners and property managers.
56 pages
Binding: Saddle Stitch
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Profitable Bookkeeping for Cleaning Businesses See details
Profitable Bookkeeping for Cleaning Businesses
This book presents a simple, effective system that allows you to easily and quickly maintain your financial records and produce a monthly profit and loss statement.
Accurate recordkeeping is a necessity when it comes to controlling costs, monitoring cashflow and ensuring profitability. Many small business owners become frustrated by unfamiliar terminology, complex systems and changing tax laws.
167 pages
Binding: Paper
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Profitable Book Keeping for Small Service Shops See details
Profitable Book Keeping for Small Service Shops
All small service shops, including automobile garages, beauty parlors, carpenters, repair shops, nurseries and other professional service companies, must maintain careful control of their labor costs and other expenses if they are to survive and prosper.
This book explains the nuts and bolts of an accounting system specifically tailored to the needs of successful service shops.
216 pages
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Professional Home Inspection Results See details
Professional Home Inspection Results
The variety of potential defects to be found in modern homes is infinite, and it would be unimaginable that any single book could address every last one. Richard Burgess, however, has thoroughly compiled, analyzed, and distilled an enormous wealth of the most pertinent data available, and has delivered it in this clear and comprehensive book.This volume belongs on every inspector's reference shelf. It is an extraordinarily valuable resource, not just for those enterting the profession, but for the seasoned inspector as well.
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Professional Cleaning and Building Maintenance See details
Professional Cleaning and Building Maintenance
This one of a kind handbook provides information on organizing a cleaning department or service. Tips on time studies, work analysis and documentation, plus useful forms, charts and diagrams are included in this interesting book. An industry classic you'll enjoy reading.
344 pages
Binding: Paperback
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