Business: Research Before You Build Your Cleaning Business

Research Before You Build Your Cleaning Business

Written by Gail Metcalf

You should have some idea now on what type of cleaning business you want to start or expand into. Look into repparttar

different types of cleaning and determine what would be repparttar 146902

best for you.

Do you want to work days? Then janitorial and office cleaning may not be a good option as most of their customers are cleaned nights and weekends.

A better choice would be residential cleaning, window cleaning, computer cleaning, carpet cleaning and even dryer clean-outs.

Before you can start or expand, you need to know who your competition is. In your free time, go thru repparttar 146903 Yellow Pages and local periodicals in your area and identify these companies. What can you find out about each of them? Call them and ask questions that a new customer would ask. Inquire about their service and what they charge.

Being Other Focused

Written by Kevin Eikenberry

Being "Other" Focused

In repparttar Wall Street Journal, Franklin Lavin, U.S. Ambassabor to Singapore wrote repparttar 146901 Manager's Journal column about some of repparttar 146902 things he learned from repparttar 146903 late President Reagan while working on his staff.

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If you are thinking about moving on from this article because of your feelings about repparttar 146904 politics of President Reagan, please don't. The lesson I am about to share isn't about politics or partisan-ship, or any of those things.

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It is about caring.

About being focused on others.

It is a lesson for all leaders.

Lavin shares a story about an appearance repparttar 146905 President was making at an Alabama school for handicapped children. The event was going super well, until one of repparttar 146906 children with a severe speech impediment asked a question of repparttar 146907 President. No one in repparttar 146908 audience could understand and repparttar 146909 room became tense. The President asked him to repeat repparttar 146910 question, and repparttar 146911 energy in repparttar 146912 room was further dampened. Again, no one understood.

Here is how Lavin tells what happened next, "The teachers froze. What was to have been an upbeat day was turning into a disaster... Reagan to repparttar 146913 rescue. 'I'm sorry' he said with a smile, 'but you know I've got this hearing aid in my ear. Every once in awhile repparttar 146914 darn thing just conks out on me. And it's just gone dead. Sorry to put you through this again, but I'm going to ask one of my staff people to go over to you so you can tell them directly what your question is. Then he can pass it back to me.'"

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