5 surefire ways to compete in office cleaning business

Written by Khali S.


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3.Do not place your advertising directly beside any major competition. Doing this will only give you a 50% chance of success; lower if they are already long since established. Satisfied customers rarely use new competitor’s service.

4.Try to market your prices at a better bargain than your competitors with added extra values. Sometimes it is all aboutrepparttar appearance of things.

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Work Smart: Pace Yourself!

Written by Scott McGraw


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To use another illustration, businesses are like plants. They take time to grow. You have to water them with an investment of time and money. You have to prune outrepparttar dead wood, getting rid of things that don’t work (maybe an ineffective ad campaign). The more you understand how to nurture them,repparttar 116605 healthier they become and eventually produce fruitage you can be proud of.

Runners have coaches to teach them how to utilize their physical strengths wisely overrepparttar 116606 duration ofrepparttar 116607 race. Landscapers studyrepparttar 116608 attributes of individual plants and trees so as to best know how to cultivate them, and then they are patient as their efforts bear fruit.

As business owners, we can learn from both. We need to get to know our business, what will make it grow, as well as what will drain it until it dies. We need to be coached by others who are willing to share their experience. We need to be able to evaluate our assets, our strengths, and know how to use them wisely. We need to haverepparttar 116609 patience ofrepparttar 116610 landscaper andrepparttar 116611 perseverance ofrepparttar 116612 long distance runner. And we need to pace ourselves, having reasonable goals and expectations.

If you do all this, your work at home business will grow and likerepparttar 116613 long distance runner you will reach your goal.

But you must remember, alongrepparttar 116614 way you will need to work hard while striving real hard to WORK SMART!

Scott McGraw has 15 years experience operating a home business and currently owns www.work-at-home-a-better-life.com featuring a Work Smart approach to success.


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