Be a Leader: Use Environmentally Friendly Products in Your Cleaning Business (26 Jun 2006) Green cleaning is a hot topic these days due to health and safety concerns. People are becoming more environmentallly conscious and as a result want their janitorial services to use cleaning chemicals that are friendly to the environment.
Be Nice to Your Payroll Department (26 Jun 2006) Ok, so next to the taxman, your company payroll department might well be the most criticised people on the planet. Of course, when your pay is accurate and on time then you love the payroll people with a passion but when things go wrong it is a completely different matter. Rightly or not the payroll professionals come in for an awful lot of abuse if your pay is not perfect.
Become the Go To Expert in Your Industry (26 Jun 2006) These three simple steps will help you become an expert in your field very quickly and easily. They will also help you drive prospective clients to you and your company.
Becoming Recession Proof (26 Jun 2006) A lot of business owners I've spoken with lately have commented how their business is slow because of "the recession." If you are one of these people, you might want to reconsider your position. Before blindly saying a condition is being caused by a recession, you might want to ask yourself, "What will it cost me to buy into this?" Consider if you will that your thoughts create your reality. If you doubt that, study any spiritual, religious, philosophical, writing over the last 5,000 years and you will see this lesson over and over. For example, "The destiny of man is in his own soul," Herodotes (5th century B.C.). "Our life is what our thoughts make of it," Marcus Aurelius (121—180) and on and on throughout history, people have been carrying this message.
Beginning an Internship Program (26 Jun 2006) There specific steps one must take when beginning an internship program. Here we provide some considerations that will facilitate a smooth start.
Best Credit Card Processing Rates (26 Jun 2006) Everyone goes into business to make money, so why spend more of your profits on expensive transaction fees, Website maintenance, service agreements and high credit card processing rates?
Big Successes Never Happen Overnight (26 Jun 2006) Treat your business as a serious, full-time business and be serious about making it work. Market and promote your business everyday. Quality internet marketing will be the ultimate success of your business.
Blowing Your Own Horn – A Key Marketing Strategy for Small Business (26 Jun 2006) Successful solo entrepreneurs spend quite a bit of time building and expanding their networks. We may meet face to face, over the telephone or online. We exchange pleasantries, information, referrals or resources and in doing so, strengthen the bonds with individuals and the whole organization. What is not quite as common in our exchanges is the use of a personal or business success story.
Boat Cleaning Business Case Study: Entrepreneurship 101 (26 Jun 2006) How do marine type businesses start? Have you ever thought of turning a hobby into a business? Let me tell you a story of how I got into the Boat Detailing Business when I started our in the car cleaning business which grew into a franchise system.
Boat Detailers; Add-on Products and Services (26 Jun 2006) As a Boat Detailing Specialist, you may want to offer services such as making sure your clients' boat's batteries are charged and offering to charge them or test the boat before they arrive for their departure. This is an easy service to provide and will keep you on the top of the boat owners list of reputable and reliable service companies.
Boat Detailing Tips and Procedures (26 Jun 2006) Auto detailers are often asked to clean boats and detail boat trailers. There is an easy and efficient way to do this with little effort. Washing and waxing boat trailers is an easy sale. Be sure to offer the boat owner a trailer wax. Let the owner know that a heavily waxed trailer is more rust resistant even when used in salt water. They can wax now or repaint later.
Boat Hull Cleaning Procedures for Owners and Detailers (26 Jun 2006) For really tough boat hull cleaning you will need to break out the acid. Muratic acid is the best for this. You'll want to have a 50/50 mix of muratic acid of 6-8% concentrated (12% is the highest concentration you can legally buy over the counter), water and a good strong sprayer.
Bogus Investor and Consumer Complaints and Consumer Misrepresentation (26 Jun 2006) Like most regulatory bodies in the United States, the Federal Trade Commission gets investor and consumer complaints. But how much of these are actually real? These agencies then act on such complaints and increase regulations. Let's look at the Franchising industry for example.
Book Keeping Business – How to Get Started (26 Jun 2006) Starting and running a small business in book keeping is one of the most profitable businesses that you can start from home. Apart from being low cost, you also do not need to rent office space for you to provide these services especially when you are just starting out. However, what is required is the knowledge and understanding of bookkeeping procedures as well as possessing the personal quality of being able to pay attention to detail.
Boston Market; Mobile Auto Detailing (26 Jun 2006) Boston itself covers 50 square miles of concrete and traffic, well city limits actually exactly 46 square miles, the entire metro area can be and is often over stated at 1100 square miles, but more realistically about 380 in our humble opinion. And you know some of that is water.
Boston Suburban areas a good choice to run a business (26 Jun 2006) BioTechs even with the latest news had shed over 1000 jobs two years ago, as it was reported by The Financial Times, WSJ, and Bloomberg that only 17 of the nearly 1300 BioTech firms were actually profitable. In 2002 the number of jobs were in the 30,000 range in Biotech.
