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"Using estimating tools for your cleaning business provides numerous benefits that will simplify the management process, saving hours of your valuable time and putting money back into your pocket. With an innovative cleaning application, you can stay on top of all management duties with ease, from cleaning CRM to cleaning invoicing and more.   Considering the vast amount of innovative technology available to cleaning business managers today, there's no reason why you should have to calculate quotes or send invoices the old-fashioned way. Computer-generated clean estimates are not only super-fast, but also reliable and accurate. Continue reading for more information on how an estimating tool will take your cleaning company to the next level.   ESTIMATING TOOLS IMPROVE ACCURACY AND PROFESSIONALISM   There are many factors to consider when calculating cleaning estimates. If you're making those calculations by hand, you may easily leave out an extra laundry charge or the cost of cleaning windows by accident. You're only human, after all. With an automated estimating tool, quotes will be calculated accurately, each and every time. The online calculator is consistent and precise    to bring greater professionalism to your business.   To use a cleaning application or janitorial management application for generating quotes, you'll input information for individual jobs to ensure that each charge is fair. The calculator for a residential estimate differs for a commercial, or janitorial, estimate so you can calculate costs depending on the type of cleaning company you operate.   For all estimates, you'll make changes in these sections to ensure accuracy for all quotes:   The square footage of the space to be cleaned The frequency of the job, whether it's a one-time clean, weekly, twice weekly, monthly, etc. The type of clean, whether it's move-in or move-out, spring cleaning, etc.   For a residential estimate, you'll make selections in

"HERE ARE SOME OF OUR FAVORITE CLEANING ARTICLES FROM JULY SO FAR   FROM: TIPS TO DEFEND CLEANING COSTS, CLEANLINK A reader writes: "I just started with a company that has an older contract that has been renewed several times. The new manager of the account wants justification for the current charges. Any help would be appreciated."…Read More   The tips in this and similar cleaning articles are definitely helpful, but this process could be streamlined by using an estimation tool that incorporates the variables of cleaning costs. Cleaning business owners are always on the go, so they need the ability to consistently provide accurate estimates and invoices for clients from any device. FROM: STRATEGIES FOR LAUNCHING A CLEANING BUSINESS, CLEANLINK We often get asked for tips on how to start a cleaning business when also working a day job. Granted, it is a challenge. However, there are ways to start your commercial business part-time. Smaller accounts are normally cleaned once a week, usually on the weekend. They may only bring in $300 to $400 a month, but several of them can add up. Pursuing small accounts in your local area is a good place to start… Read More Another good tip is to invest in cleaning management software from the beginning. Many cleaning articles promote tips just like this regarding the logistics and tools needed to run a cleaning business but often neglect the tools that would make things simpler for a business owner. Although it may seem like spending the money on a software platform is a waste before you have many clients, it is actually a smart business move because you start out on the right foot from the beginning. With the right tools, you can keep your clients, contracts, estimates, invoices, and employees organized so you can spend your time growing your business. FROM: CLEANING ACCREDITATION BOOSTS GROWTH, CLEANLINK In order to legally practice, a lawyer must pass the bar exam and complete a set number of continuing legal educ

"For cleaning companies, a professional cleaning business website is essential to achieve growth and success. When a website is put together well, it provides numerous benefits that will direct customers toward your janitorial services and bring greater recognition to your brand. A website for your cleaning business will give you the edge that you need to prosper in today's economy.   Read on for an explanation of the perks a website can bring to your cleaning business, as well as helpful tips to remember during the development process.   A website for your cleaning company will offer these benefits:   The site will act as a place for new customers to learn about you, the cleaning services you offer, and how to contact you. With all this important information stored in one easily accessible place, more people will be able to discover your company. You can use the website to display your service offerings and explain what sets you apart from competitors in the field. Consumers have many choices when it comes to cleaning services, and janitorial companies must do everything they can to stay ahead of industry competitors. A website is a perfect place to tell potential customers why they should choose you. A professional and well put together website will build your janitorial company's reputation. Especially if your business is on the young side, building credibility can be a difficult task. A sleek, efficient website gives a great first impression to consumers and other professionals in the field. In addition, a website of your own is a step toward developing a recognizable brand for your cleaning company.   As you begin the process of creating a cleaning business website, keep these tips in mind:   You'll need to register a domain, enlist a hosting service, and use a website builder to develop a modern, functional, and professional-looking website. These components are essential to generate website traffic and keep your site up-to-date. Consider g

* Google continues its prime directive. At the high level, this is a strong move for Google, they continue to aggregate other people's social content, and become the intermediatry. This helps them to suck in Twitter, Flickr, and any-other-data type as the APIs open up, giving them more to 'organize'. This is Google acting on it's mission to the world. * Privacy woes will scare consumers -yet adoption will continues upward. For consumers, the risk of privacy will continue to be at top of mind. Although the features allow for sharing only with friends or in public. expect more consumer groups to express concern. Overtime, this will become moot as the next generation of consumers continues to share in public. * Buzz could have faster adoption rate than Twitter. For consumers, this could potentially have more adoption than Twitter as Gmail has a large footprint Google told me it's tens of millions (active monthly unique). Of course, most Gmail users likely aren't Twitter users, but there could be a large platform to draw from. * Physical businesses lose more control over search strategy. For small busineses and retailers, this will impact their search engine results pages, as a single top 'buzzer' could cause their content to be very relevant, if that person was relevant, then their influential content could show at top of SERP pages. Expect Google to continue to offer advertising options now around buzz content -fueling their revenues. * A direct blow to Facebook, they must accelerate go to market. To Facebook, this is a direct threat, these features emulate Friendfeed and the recently designed Facebook newsfeed. Expect Google to incorporporate Facebook connect, commoditizing Facebook data as it gets sucked into Google and displayed on Google SERP. * Great for Twitter now -yet painful in the long term. This is good for Twitter in the short term, as it'll amplify tweets, and suck them into a new system and give additional

If you're an engineer or a scientist working with critical mathematics and calculations, you must know what Matlab is and how many functionalities it has. Mathematicians and students from engineering backgrounds work on algorithms and designing systems that possess critical functionality.

Article by Jay Baer about looking beyond the big five on social media.

I like Jay's stuff. He brings up an interesting point. It seems that most monitoring systems only pull back data from more popular networks. What do you do to monitor your brand or your own name on other less popular web properties?

Business owners take all possible steps to ensure customer satisfaction. One of the most successful and recommended strategies in this regard is to begin with a virtual receptionist service. This service brings in extra representatives for a business and eases the lives of the customers. When the customers have questions or queries to be answered or any problems to be solved, they try to reach the authoritative body telephonically and it is not uncommon for them for not having to been able to do so. This is where the need for virtual receptionists comes in. Virtual receptionists are basically persons who work for the customer support but do not work from the office or any specified location.

Reading this reinforces that specialization is for ants and that we need to underdstand how the entire system works in order to lead it