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Conflict: Unavoidable and Potentially Positive (Part 1 of 4)
When you're the one who must deal with conflict you know what to do?If you're an executive, manager or human you resource professional, managing conflict is probably part of your job. So is recognizing when hidden conflict is the source of a problem.The very word conflict has a negative impact on most people: you associate the word with war, destruction, hostility and pain. When you think of conflict as n

Mission Statement or Mantra: Which Do You Have?
Do you have a mission statement? What do you do with it? It is painted in your lobby, saved as a screen saver on your computer, tattooed on your arm? There are lots of opinions about the value mission statements offer to a company’s success. In Denise O’Berry’s posting “Do I Need a Mission Statement for My Small Business?” she says:“The Sun Online Agency was commissioned to conduct a survey studying Fortune 1

Winning the bid for a cleaning contract doesn't necessarily mean that you have to be the lowest bidder. The entire bidding and estimating process has an enormous impact on the success of your bid, and should be considered an overall effort, and not just an aim to beat the price of any competing business. The trick is to communicate well with the facility operator in order to create a set of standard expectations and definitions for the job itself. That way, the bid you make will cater precisely to what your prospective client wants and expects, and will justify your bidding price.

Normally the services required will depend on the client, but can include sweeping, dusting, vacuuming, buffing, waxing, emptying trash and recycling, restroom cleaning and restocking, and window cleaning.

When bidding on janitorial contracts, it is best to have a specifications list that you go over with the prospective client. This ensures you and the client both know exactly what is expected, and allows you to bid accordingly. Make sure you check both inside and outside of the building, and include any

How To Punch Up Your Salesletter For Greater Response
How many times have you sat down at the computer to write a sales letter or an article and just piddled around in front of a blank word document trying come up with something to write, or waiting to get into the mood?To break the writer's block did you type out an outline? And then didn't it become quite a bit easier to fill in the article or finish out the letter?Imagine what it's like for your cust

ered an overall effort, and not just an aim to beat the price of any competing business. The trick is to communicate well with the facility operator in order to create a set of standard expectations and definitions for the job itself. That way, the bid you make will cater precisely to what your prospective client wants and expects, and will justify your bidding price.

Tips On Running A Home Based Business
Every business is a risk and a home based business is no different. The advantage of setting up a home based business is you can do it on a meager capital, thus making the risk lesser.While a home based business can be rewarding emotionally and financially, it can also bring challenges and frustrations to the businessman. A home based businessman may have more time in his hands but he faces the task of making s

b itself. That way, the bid you make will cater precisely to what your prospective client wants and expects, and will justify your bidding price.

5-Step Plan for ROI-ifying Your Website
Ah, the land of ROI-ification. A land where e-mails are opened and links are clicked and phones ring by the minute. Is this utopia? Or arms-length reality? Once you apply these proven strategies, you just might find out.But first, a look at the state of your website.What a big website you have, grandmother! Many corporate websites are little more than online brochures featuring product and service descript

sweeping, dusting, vacuuming, buffing, waxing, emptying trash and recycling, restroom cleaning and restocking, and window cleaning.

Got Traffic Shovels to Cash in on the Web Infomercial Goldmine? Stake Your Claim Now.
Traffic is the lifeblood of any online business. Without it, you do not have an internet business, a hobby maybe, but certainly not a profitable source of high, ongoing, online, income.The massive internet marketing successes in 2006 such as Mike Filsaime’s million dollar sales of the Butterfly Marketing script, have all been based on the need to generate and sustain traffic to your website in order to get a

you go over with the prospective client. This ensures you and the client both know exactly what is expected, and allows you to bid accordingly. Make sure you check both inside and outside of the building, and include any seasonal or special tasks such as outside windows or sidewalks that require attention. On your tour, be aware of the level of cleanliness already present, and try and gage the expectations of the client accordingly.

Your checklist should contain the following items as a basic foundation, and should have additional points, depending on the specifics of the particular job, as well as any specialties you may offer to provide:

Total cleanable square footage, including the types of floor surfaces and the measurements per type of floor surface. Floor care services such as carpet cleaning and stripping and waxing is usually bid separately. It is common for a floor care bid to be submitted on a square footage price as an add-on service.

Tasks and frequency of these tasks.

Similar to the floors, windows can be bid on in a per-unit basis

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Are You Ready to Move Up Market? Moving up-market means you either offer more comprehensive (read, more expensive) services to your existing clients or you up-shift to a higher end clientele.

It seems nowadays every marketing guru and their brother-in-law has a “deadly sins and how to fix them” book, ebook or at least an article! But apparently nobody is reading this stuff! How do I know? Because nine out of every ten businesses continue making the same marketing goof-ups.

Every conversation I have with a CEO of a middle-sized company eventually touches on the same conundrum: 'How in the world does a company of our size get traction in new markets with new clients?' This challenge seems to rank right up there with problems of arranging sufficient financial resources and getting top people to commit to a small but growing company. This article discussed five reasons why many companies fail in the effort.

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