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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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Instructor's Guide (To Comprehensive Custodial Training Programs) See details
Instructor's Guide (To Comprehensive Custodial Training Programs)
This complete instructor's guide contains everything needed to conduct effective custodial training programs except supplies, equipment, and students. May be used as a supplement to pre-established training programs and for seminars, workshops, inservice and vocational education classes in schools, businesses, institutions, and industry. Ideal for use in all types and sizes of facilities. Includes informative sections on orientation for instructors, equipment and supply sources, training aid and display sources, plus subject matter outlines for over 50 cleaning procedures such as, floors, carpets, windows, offices, and restrooms, etc.
500 pages in a 3-ring binder.
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Inside the Family Business See details
Inside the Family Business
This book's subject is the core and substance of the successful family business and the family in that business. Successful business owners build more than a business, writes Dr. Danco. Inside The Family Business goes far beyond questions of management technique. This book is useful and fascinating reading for members of business owning families, their employees, advisors, and directors. A useful book for anyone who works with or within a family owned business.
250 pages
Binding: Hardback
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Infection Control for Lodging and Food Service Establishments See details
Infection Control for Lodging and Food Service Establishments
Infectious disease is an ever present threat to the well-being and profitability of food and lodging businesses, especially in this era of AIDS, public awareness and increased travel. This book explains effective sanitation and disinfecting procedures to keep diseases at bay and customers secure, healthy, and happy. Contents provide a simple, cost-effective program of infection control for the housekeeping and hospitality industry.
178 pages
Binding: Paperback
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Indoor Air Quality, a Marketing Manual See details
Indoor Air Quality, a Marketing Manual
A complete textbook on how to market indoor air quality improvement services of all kinds. Included with text are ready-to-use graphics in prepared, sample print ads to illustrate the principles explained in each chapter. This book provides a detailed program for marketing all such procedures.
50 pages
Binding Comb
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IICRC S520 Standard and Reference Guide for Professional Mold Remediation See details
IICRC S520 Standard and Reference Guide for Professional Mold Remediation
The S520 is a procedural standard and reference guide for the remediation of mold damaged structures and contents. The S520 is based on reliable remediation and restoration principles, research and practical experience, and attempts to combine essential academic principles with practical elements of water damage restoration for technicians facing "real-life" mold remediation chaleenges.
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IICRC S300 Standard and Reference Guide for Professional Upholstery Cleaning See details
IICRC S300 Standard and Reference Guide for Professional Upholstery Cleaning
The development of this guide has been an industry consensus effort, utilizing the talents and abilities of leaders in the fabric and furniture manufacturing industries, leather processing industry and the professional upholstery cleaning industry. This, the first written standard for the safe and successful cleaning of upholstery fabric, was developed as a result of their combined diverse backgrounds and broad range of knowledge.
60 Pages
Binding: Saddle
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How-to Start a Construction Cleanup Service See details
How-to Start a Construction Cleanup Service
In How-to Start a Construction Cleanup Service, you’ll find everything you need to plan, open, and get to work in the field of post-construction cleaning. In this comprehensive guidebook that’s the first of its kind released to the public, author, President, and CEO, Mitchell Hardin, Jr. shares all of the information, resources, and industry secrets he’s gleaned from decades of running his own lucrative business, Hi-Lite Enterprises, Inc. DBA Hi-Lite Janitorial.
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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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How to Start and Operate a Successful Cleaning Business See details
How to Start and Operate a Successful Cleaning Business

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A guide for new or diversifying businesses and a valuable reference tool for managers and owners of established operations. The author gives facts, examples, and current information on how small service businesses can be started and operated in a profitable manner. Over twenty different cleaning related services are reviewed. All can be started with a minimum investment. Examples range from office, home, and industrial cleaning to high-pressure washing and carpet cleaning. This book is packed full of practical advice and information on such management subjects as marketing, supervision, employee training and bidding. It is the official training manual for the Association of Cleaning Technicians (ACT) and the Professional Carpet and Upholstery Cleaners Association (PCUCA).
278 pages
Binding: Paper

 

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How to Start a Window Cleaning Business See details
How to Start a Window Cleaning Business

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A great one person business that's easy to start, in demand everywhere and highly profitable as supply and equipment costs are minimal. Judy Suval provides complete information on licenses, taxes, advertising, bookkeeping, and step by step procedures for cleaning windows profitably on a full or part time basis. Suval compares servicing commercial and residential accounts and details how to price your work for profit. Illustrations, diagrams, and sample forms are included, along with a short chapter on bartering, bidding and finding customers.
100 pages
Binding: Paper
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