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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
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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
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Food Store Sanitation See details
Food Store Sanitation
Today's food store has grown considerably from the neighborhood grocery store of the 1960s: with innovations in food marketing and food processing, the supermarket has also taken on the role of caterer, fast-food restaurant, food processor, and Euro-style gourmet food marketer. These innovations have brought about new food-safety problems and concerns.
This book is meant to address the new food store and to present up-to-date methods for assuring the quality, integrity, and safety of all food products sold in the supermarket.
281 Pages
Binding: Hardcover
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How to Buy a Small Business or Sell One: A Procedures Manual See details
How to Buy a Small Business or Sell One: A Procedures Manual
This book presents a comprehensive eleven step, detailed procedure for buying or selling a service business. Purchasers learn how to identify legitimate, profit-making enterprises with potential and how to avoid being duped by an unscrupulous operator's tactics and tricks. Sellers are shown how to present their business in the best possible light and sell for the maximum value and return on their investment of time and money.
56 pages
Binding: Comb
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Custodial Supervision of Adults with Special Needs See details
Custodial Supervision of Adults with Special Needs
Written to help supervisors and leads learn how to become accomplished supervisors of adult employees with special needs. This 230 plus page manual covers the full range of supervisory duties and techniques. Discusses training ethics, organizational needs, employee discipline, safety equipment and supplies, budget issues and such up to date subjects as total quality management philosophy and quality assurance principles.
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Diagnostic Techniques for the Investigation of Carpet Complaints See details
Diagnostic Techniques for the Investigation of Carpet Complaints
Your income as a carpet inspector depends on your ability to investigate carpet complaints and determine who is at fault and if the problem can be corrected on-site. This book provides a series of fault finding charts, test methods, and a number of sample reports.
This book was prepared as a field manual for the investigation of carpet complaints and is particularly useful for carpet manufacturers.
68 pages
Binding: Comb
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The Identification of Carpet Faults See details
The Identification of Carpet Faults
A manual to help you identify common carpet defects related to soiling, yellowing, spillage, installation and manufacturing that plague the carpet industry. This book gives you a clear description of hundreds of carpet faults and offers practical advice on how to remedy these conditions.
A useful guide for anyone involved with the investigation of carpet complaints. Written by an internationally recognized expert in carpet inspection services.
78 pages
Binding: Spiral
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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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Housekeeping Handbook for Institutions, Business and Industry See details
Housekeeping Handbook for Institutions, Business and Industry
Valuable for housekeeping managers and supervisors in any type of facility! The author's vast experience ranges from industrial and chemical engineering to managing the maintenance of several facilities. He has written many books and more than 100 articles related to cleaning and maintenance. In this book, Feldman discusses the operation and management of housekeeping services, employee training, supervision, and ways to get the job done quicker, better and safer. Several chapters are devoted to custodial facilities, equipment and chemicals. The appendix has sections for special cleaning problems and industry examples to compare with your own business environment. Excellent for training supervisors and managers. This is an industry classic, written by an expert in the field, truly one of the finest books available on professional cleaning management. 423 pages, Published (1978) ...Binding/Hardcover.
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Custodial Skills for Adults with Special Needs See details
Custodial Skills for Adults with Special Needs
A complete training manual for individuals with severe disabilities. Nearly 300 pages, with illustrations, which cover professionalism and ethics, safety, tools and equipment, and procedures.
Represents the culmination of years of training by the Portland Habilitation Center's rehabilitation workshop in their efforts to help adults with special needs become productive and self-supporting employees.
297 pages
Binding: 3 ring
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The Carpet Salesman's Handbook See details
The Carpet Salesman's Handbook
This training manual goes beyond the basics of carpet salesmanship to discuss the structure and construction of carpet, including fiber facts, yarn processing, tufting, dyeing, finishing and carpet styles. Each chapter concludes with review questions and answers for self-testing.
128 pages
Binding: Paperback
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How-To Handbook of Carpets See details
How-To Handbook of Carpets
This book provides authoritative information on the installation of all types of carpeting. Chapters provide facts on construction, identification, measuring, estimating, and installation. Learn the hows and whys of hundreds of recommended procedures written in a clear step by step procedural format. A valuable resource for carpet installers, retailers, buyers, architects, cleaning crews and inspectors. An industry classic, limited supply available.
386 pages
Binding: 3 ring
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