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Technical and How To
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Hard Floor Care
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Management, Supervion and Marketing
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Carpet,Upholstery and Drapery
22 products Inspections and Claims
Inspections and Claims
11 products Self Employment and Small Business Management
Self Employment and Small Business Management
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Household Cleaning and Maid Services
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Bidding and Estimating
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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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Masonry Cleaning and High Pressure Washing - A Technical Reference Manual - See details
Masonry Cleaning and High Pressure Washing - A Technical Reference Manual -
This informative, almost encyclopedic book provides practical advice and the step-by-step instructions you need to master the technology of masonry cleaning and pressure washing. The portable high pressure washer has brought a new era to the cleaning industry. This technology allows for more thorough and less expensive cleaning of surfaces than ever before. New markets and profit opportunities are being developed daily by ambitious cleaning professionals. All types of surfaces, buildings, mobile homes, roofs, sidewalks, driveways, trucks, heavy equipment, and airplanes can be cleaned utilizing hot or cold water under high pressure. Information is also included on the specialized techniques, equipment, procedures, and chemicals needed to remove stains, molds, and discoloration from a variety of surfaces. 293 pages ?inding Paperback.
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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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Upholstery & Fabric Cleaner's Handbook See details
Upholstery & Fabric Cleaner's Handbook
While the title of this book is the Upholstery and Fabric Cleaner's Handbook, it probably would be simpler and more accurate to title it the Textile Cleaner's Handbook. Textiles which are used for interior decor will all eventually need to be cleaned and with the knowledge and techniques which are discussed within these chapters you should be comfortable cleaning most of them.
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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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Hardwood Floors: Laying, sanding and finishing See details
Hardwood Floors: Laying, sanding and finishing
You don't need any flooring experience, and the tools you'll need can be rented locally. Using crisp photos and drawings, Bollinger goes step by step through the process. You will learn how to extimate materials, select the right kind of wood, prepare the subfloor and achieve a blemish-free finish for an old or new floor. Bollinger also provides numerous tips and tricks, and sources of supply. The book is indexed for easy reference.137 Pages
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From the Other Side of the Bed See details
From the Other Side of the Bed
This book is written by, for, and about women in family owned businesses. The author, Kathy Danco is the wife of Leon A. Danco, Ph.D, one of the nation's leading authorities on family business. She has drawn on conversations with hundreds of women over the past 25 years to provide a realistic view of this previously unexplored "other half" of business ownership and success. Answering questions from how can they help their spouses, even when they refuse to talk about their problems, to defining their relationship with the business so they actually feel it is theirs as much as their spouses. For a family business to achieve its potential, it cannot be in conflict with the family.
180 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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Classrooms, Restrooms and Quality Control See details
Classrooms, Restrooms and Quality Control
This manual, from our six-hour workshop for school custodians, contains the proper procedures needed to provide quality service when cleaning classrooms, restrooms, and other key areas. New developments in equipment, chemicals, procedures and surfaces are reviewed along with how to get better cooperation from teachers, students, and administrators.
105 pages
Binding: Paperback
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Custodial Safety Manual See details
Custodial Safety Manual
An excellent training manual for custodial crews and building maintenance personnel, this illustrated book covers back injury prevention, chemical safety, environmentally preferable chemicals, slip and fall prevention, asbestos, and how to avoid repetive stress injuries.
50 pages
Binding: Paper
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Drapery Cleaning On-Site See details
Drapery Cleaning On-Site
Until now, home owners, property managers, cleaning services and renters desiring clean draperies had to take them down and have them cleaned in-plant by commercial dry cleaning companies. This disassembly, cleaning, and reinstallation is time consuming, potentially damaging, difficult and expensive. A better approach is now available: portable-cleaning equipment allows on-site wet or dry cleaning of drapery fabrics safely, effectively, and profitably. On-site drapery cleaning is one of the newest and most exciting specialty services in the cleaning industry today. It offers tremendous income opportunities in a largely untapped marketplace. The author, with over 25 years experience cleaning draperies in California, gives you up-to-date, practical advice on using the latest equipment, chemicals, and procedures. Learn how to identify potential problems and pitfalls before they cost you time and money.
122 pages
Binding: Paperback
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