Your Start-to-Finish Guide to Launching a Successful Cleaning Business
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Your Start-to-Finish Guide to Launching a Successful Cleaning Business

Starting a cleaning business, as with any venture, requires a great deal of preparation. From writing a business plan to organizing a resume to show to clients, much of the work is done before you ever step foot in your actual workplace. When you make sufficient preparations, though, you can look forward to the future success of your company with confidence.

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How to Keep Your Trash Can Clean
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How to Keep Your Trash Can Clean

The trash can is one of the filthiest, most germ-ridden things on your property. Imagine how many disgusting things are crawling around in there! To keep it clean and to keep your family safe, rinse the trash can with soap and water after it’s emptied. If you regularly throw food scraps in your bin, don't let nasty stuff build up on the bottom of the can. Remember that it's your home and your family's health that's at risk.

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Going Zero Waste: A Guide for Landlords and Property Managers
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Going Zero Waste: A Guide for Landlords and Property Managers

As a landlord or property manager, you shouldn’t be a stranger to waste management concepts like reuse of materials and recycling. But you may have also heard of a newer and more ambitious approach to the question of how to reduce or manage waste: zero waste.

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Everyone Can Benefit from Recycling Services
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Everyone Can Benefit from Recycling Services

Dirty trash bins can not only harm you and your family, they can also affect your neighbors. Insects, flies, and rodents can transfer bacteria from your trash bin to your neighbor’s houses. In addition, the smell can spread into other people's homes. You can protect your community by cleaning your trash bins.

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Interested in Ecopreneurship? Here’s How to Launch Your Business
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Interested in Ecopreneurship? Here’s How to Launch Your Business

As an ecopreneur here are the three preliminary steps you’ll need to take:

Find a Niche: Based on your skills and expertise, choose a specialized market in which your business will operate. This can include green energy, eco-friendly landscaping, recycling, and more.

Create a Business Plan: This is a comprehensive document that will include insights regarding your product/service, pricing, marketing plan, financial requirements, and short and long-term goals.

Register an LLC: Businesses registered as a Limited Liability Company pay lower taxes compared to corporations and can use business expenses as write-offs. This will free up cash to be invested in key projects.

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Best Practice Waste Management Solutions In Property Management
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Best Practice Waste Management Solutions In Property Management

Understanding the building you manage and the resources generated can help you design the appropriate solution to keep your property clean. Each building has specific needs and requirements depending on the type of tenants. For that reason, it would be best to identify the type and volume of waste that your tenants generate. It is the first and most essential step in effectively managing waste management solutions. 

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Benefits Of Cleaning Your Trash Bins
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Benefits Of Cleaning Your Trash Bins

Dirty trash bins can not only harm you and your family, they can also affect your neighbors. Insects, flies, and rodents can transfer bacteria from your trash bin to your neighbor’s houses. In addition, the smell can spread into other people's homes. You can protect your community by cleaning your trash bins.

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Bugs, REVISITED…
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Bugs, REVISITED…

A recent article at How I Get Rid Of lists the most deadly insects in the world. Shockingly, it isn’t some exotic insect on a distant shore. It is the common mosquito. The article reads… “According to the World Mosquito Program, it is estimated that at least 700 million people contract mosquito-borne diseases every single year, and at least one million of these people die from mosquito-borne illnesses each year across the globe.”

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How Cleaning Your Trash Bins Can Improve Property Value
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How Cleaning Your Trash Bins Can Improve Property Value

As a homeowner, the one thing you don’t want is for your home to lose value. Your home provides shelter and is an emblem of your social status. But more importantly, that building is probably the most expensive thing you have ever bought. Whatever affects the value of your home will touch your life deeply.

That is why it is vital to make sure the appearance of your trash bin matches the image of your home.

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Your Business Is a Treasure to Your Community
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Your Business Is a Treasure to Your Community

Small businesses do more than just bring jobs to a community. They can also serve as a place to bring people together. As a future small business owner, you can become a fixture in your own community by offering your neighbors the products and/or services they want and need.

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Work Ethic Matters
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Work Ethic Matters

We recently came across bins of one of our customers that a competitor had mistakenly cleaned a few hours before we arrived.

The bins were taped shut with their logo proudly taped to the lid.

The lid was visibly dirty. It had not been cleaned at all. The smell inside was not pleasant, likely because there was an inch or so of water left in the bottom.

When we stared actually cleaning the bins, a soapy residue that had been left behind washed off, inside and out.

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The Secret(s) To Cybersecurity
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The Secret(s) To Cybersecurity

Scott Augenbaum’s book — The Secret To Cybersecurity: A Simple Plan To Protect Your Family And Business From Cybercrime — is a common sense guide to protect your family from cybercriminals. The book opens with what he calls ‘The Four Truths’:

  • Truth One: Nobody expects to become a victim.

  • Truth Two: You’re probably not getting your money back.

  • Truth Three: The bad guys probably aren’t getting arrested.

  • Truth Four: A majority of cybercrime can be prevented.

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CyberSecurity Starts In Your Trash
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CyberSecurity Starts In Your Trash

Most everything you would need to know to steal someone’s identity can usually be found in their trash can. You roll it out to the curb on trash day and walk away. In it, a treasure trove of information about the people in your home.

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How To Make A Garbage Can Smell Better
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How To Make A Garbage Can Smell Better

Paper, plastic and glass are the most common items thrown in the garbage can. None of these things stink. However, most of these things have small amounts of organic matter left on them. Packaged food, fruits, vegetables, meat, drinks, and other biodegradable things that we use daily get tossed in a warm, dark container that is the prefect environment for bacteria to grow as these things decompose. The slow breakdown of organic substances and their subsequent consumption by microorganisms can produce unpleasant-smelling chemical compounds.

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Cleaning, Sanitizing, and Disinfecting Your Garbage Can
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Cleaning, Sanitizing, and Disinfecting Your Garbage Can

It’s important to clean, sanitize and disinfect the surfaces in and around your home regularly to help prevent the spread of disease, including COVID-19. Here are the basics you need to know about cleaning, sanitizing and disinfecting your garbage can in order to keep your family safe.

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How To Clean a Garbage Can With Bleach
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How To Clean a Garbage Can With Bleach

  • One of the most germ-ridden things on your property is the garbage can.

  • The garbage can is a source of bacteria and odor that people often just live with.

  • Bags and can liners catch a lot of the solid debris, but liquids and trash residue still find their way onto the inner surfaces of your garbage cans and need to be cleaned regularly.

  • Bleach is the most recommended solution

  • It’s a dirty, disgusting job.

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