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Technical and How To
46 products Hard Floor Care
Hard Floor Care
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Management, Supervion and Marketing
12 products Carpet,Upholstery and Drapery
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
13 products Household Cleaning and Maid Services
Household Cleaning and Maid Services
8 products Bidding and Estimating
Bidding and Estimating
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Other Books of Interest
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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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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Introduction to Indoor Air Quality See details
Introduction to Indoor Air Quality
This two-book set by the EPA with over 400 pages is your one-stop resource for scientific facts about regulatory requirements and procedures for dealing with indoor air contamination in commercial and residential properties. Contents include risk assessment, health effects of contaminants, control protocols, measurement and remediation procedures, as well as investigative techniques.
415 pages
Binding: Paperback
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Is There Life After Housework? See details
Is There Life After Housework?
This informative and entertaining book gives valuable tips on house cleaning, compiled by Don Aslett during his twenty-five years of experience in the cleaning industry. He began a housecleaning service in college and has built his one man show into the multi-million dollar enterprise, Varsity Cleaners in Pocatello, Idaho. You can save up to 75% of the time you spend on house-work with his tried and true tips.
183 pages
Binding: Paper
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It Doesn't Pay to Work Too Hard See details
It Doesn't Pay to Work Too Hard
This book explains how to achieve success without killing yourself in the process: a helpful and enlightening guide for all who aspire to do better on the job or in business. This self-improvement program was written to help you clarify professional goals and develop a plan for their achievement. It contains advice on creativity, problem solving, perseverance, focused work, honest business practices, and salesmanship from seven successful and retired business owners.
197 pages
Binding: Paperback
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Know-How See details
Know-How
A fix-it book covering the basics of carpentry, plumbing and electrical maintenance. Its easy to follow format is ideal for entry level training courses in residential, commercial, and apartment building maintenance. Six illustrated chapters provide step by step procedures for basic repair and maintenance duties including: tools, wood-working, painting, plumbing and electricity. Fun to read and easy to follow guidelines for the aspiring do-it-yourselfer and handyman. Excellent for use in job training programs in high schools, colleges, and public works projects.
220 pages
Binding: Paperback
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