How to price house cleaning services

Ask FSB’s experts demystify the math of pricing services in the booming home and office cleaning industry. Joe Vitale, New York City I currently own a carpet-cleaning business that is about six years old. I am thinking of expanding into home and office cleaning, but have no idea on how to bid the jobs [more...]

Date: 2008-10-14 13:04:50

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Sick Sigma

Who wouldn't want to be efficient and produce high-quality products and services?  It’s one of those idealistic goals, like exercising five days a week at dawn, cleaning the house ... , and if so, at what price? No doubt your customers or clients deserve efficient, quality service and goods [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 00:31:40

So Gas Is Cheap. Does it Matter Anymore For Small Businesses?

First the good news: Gasoline prices plummeted a record 29.5% last month ... - and for the tens of thousands of flower shops, house-cleaning businesses and plastics makers ... ? Not so fast. Even though gasoline prices are around four-year lows, shipping companies are still posting [more...]

Date: 2008-12-16 09:44:00

Barbie Collector Dolls

Barbie Collector Dolls I spent all weekend helping my mom clean out her house. She’s something of a pack rat (to put it mildly), so there was quite a lot of junk to go through in her basement. As we were cleaning, I found ... get the exact same products at much lower prices — all without [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 08:45:03

I’m ripping off my privy pants to tell you The Starbucks Secret.

So, I finished a freelance project early last week, and immediately took on another ... have been cleaning the house or reading Revolutionary Road. I’m hosting this weekend’s book club ... me on the high prices of apple juice as he handed me my thirty-eight thousand dollar tall non-fat [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 16:46:46

Strange days for Ireland's economy

January 16, 2009 Strange days for Ireland's economy One of the country's biggest banks has just been nationalized, ... that house prices there could fall by 80% over the next decade. That sounds pretty far-out on the pessimism ... and Good News Could wild crows be trained to clean up litter? (Video) Believe it or not, it may [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 17:56:01

Shopper’s Diary: Scandinavian Details Sale

From Julie: One of our favorite shops in San Francisco, Scandinavian Details, is cleaning house ... Below: Woven plastic rugs by Swedish designer Lina Rickardsson (Ella Rug shown below); prices start [more...]

Date: 2008-06-10 04:19:21

Changes I've made to save potentially $600 a month

I'm taking the rising prices and economic instability seriously, and have challenged myself to actually save more as the times toughen ... Hansen Hard As Nails $2.99 + OPI Red $5.95, products last 4 months Maid service twice a month $200 + Christmas bonus $100 per year vs. Cleaning the @#$&ing house myself $0 Mr. Wash Super Deluxe [more...]

Date: 2008-10-27 14:49:14

What a day!

My goodness! What a day it has been! Crazy!!!! This morning I started straightening the house and started laundry as soon as DH left for work which was at 5:00 today. I had high hopes of getting all of my cleaning out of the way before settling ... gas prices are rapidly rising again.The snow stopped, but the roads are ice, so I know DH is not going [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 19:03:00

Things to Consider Before You Sell

If you’re ready to put your house on the market, you know what you’d like to price it at and how to advertise, ... for an afternoon and tackle your carpets to leave them clean and fresh before you invite strangers in to look ... in a while, hose them off along with the home exterior. If you have a pool, it should be clean [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 12:40:04

A Snow Snit

I usually love the view out the sliding doors in my office. I get a full view of our yard and the woods behind it ... on it. Do I really want to have to clean off my car for the third time today? Why even bother ... and ears are a small price to pay for playing in the snow.Safely ensconced in the house, my hands [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 19:57:00

Real Estate for Sale by Owner Another Option in the New Year

What most of us wouldn’t do to have the power to simply sell our house when we decide to – instantaneously; without all the fixing up and the cleaning and the showings and the waiting and the offers ... market just like the rest of the country which has brought sale prices down while interest rates [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 03:47:57

The case of the missing Grandpa and the headless maid

WCK's other big Christmas present was a Fisher-Price Loving Family Dollhouse ... , you might as well go all out and have the cleaning service send over one that has no head ... little girl in the whole entire world received one for Christmas this year. The house came with a mom [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 01:51:00

Spring Cleaning Journal #4

I grew up in an era of radio and cassettes. There were no MTV or Astro back then, and our major source of music was basically the radio ... for the family, as they brought in popular series such as Full House, ALF, Small Wonder, Out of this World ... made its presence. While it was definitely better and longer lasting, it was expensive too. Prices [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 01:21:00

Pretending To Fly In California

The Press Democrat reports from California. “The collapse of the housing bubble continues to reverberate through Sonoma County, according to a report issued Tuesday. Just over half of the homes sold in August were dumped by desperate owners trying to avoid foreclosure or by banks that seized them from borrowers who fell behind on their mortgages [more...]

Date: 2008-09-17 19:31:08

THE WORLD today!

———————————————————————————1. Barack Obama wins Presidential Election and becomes the 44th President of the United States starting January 20 - Hope ... on Americans to help the needed, to contribute to their communities and to take part in public service ... Summers to head his Economic Council and Peter R. Orszog as Director of the Office of Management [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 00:23:08

Evacuations begin in Texas ahead of Hurricane Ike

HOUSTON — The frail and elderly were put aboard buses Wednesday and authorities warned 1 million others to flee inland as Hurricane Ike steamed ... Louisianans were still cleaning up from Hurricane Gustav, Cameron Parish residents were told ... -old retired plant operator at Dow Chemical Corp., boarded up his house a mile from the Gulf [more...]

Date: 2008-09-11 05:28:47

Point / Counter-Point

Michael Cook wrote a thought provoking post earlier entitled What Happens to the Early Worm ... last week. It was oversold and many companies could be purchased below their fundamental value ... then I suggest the new market has caused an industry-wide house cleaning.  Those that do not belong have seen [more...]

Date: 2008-10-16 19:05:17

Foreclosure / Short Sale Mess in Tacoma

We’ve seen plenty of these kinds of articles and news reports about the foreclosure situation down in southern California, but I don’t think many people ever would have expected to see such a piece written about the Seattle area: Foreclosures mean work for “trash-out” specialists Contractors who specialize in cleaning [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 15:45:17

Manhattan Inventory Stagnates - For Now

A: With Q4 in the books, we are getting the first glimpses of what happened to our marketplace in the period after the fall of Lehman and the gov't rescue of AIG. However, use caution when reading into these reports because they are lagging in nature & are still a bit skewed from new dev closings whose contracts were signed up to 18 months ago [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 16:44:49

Daily Dose: 9/16/08

» AsianWeek Market Report » Natalie Coughlin Headlines the 11th Filipinas Magazine Achievement Awards » $54 Million Dollar Lawsuit Against Korean Dry Cleaner Enters Second Round » YouTube Co-Founder Steve Chen to Discuss YouTube Era Politics » Bay Area Judges and Groups Ask Governor to Sign Legislation for Civil Court Interpreters » San [more...]

Date: 2008-09-17 01:21:56

Mushroom Cloud over Wall Street By Mike Whitney

Dandelion Salad By Mike Whitney 09/22/08 “ICH“ “One bank to rule them all; One bank to bind them…” These are dark times. While you were sleeping the cockroaches were busy about their work, rummaging through the US Constitution, and putting the finishing touches on a scheme to assert absolute power over the nation’s financial [more...]

Date: 2008-09-23 02:29:12

things we bought on ebay, Florence Knoll T Angle Coffee Table

Visual evidence The one that got away I had bookmarked a Jens Risom floating coffee table a month or so ago after I bid on and won the Florence Knoll sofa (which arrived yesterday). I forgot about the auction and was bummed when I remembered ... I let something beautiful slip away. I spent the next night searching for another. Cleaning [more...]

Date: 2008-09-18 20:14:53

Three Legislative Proposals That Could Have Major Consequences for Your Finances

J.D. is on vacation. This guest post comes from DR of The Dough Roller, a money management blog. Previously at GRS, he shared the seven habits of wealth. Amidst all the financial turmoil on Wall Street and in the credit markets lately, one could easily forget about money-related legislation that is quietly pending in Congress [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 13:00:42

Netbooks: Not For Everyday Commercial Use, For Household Use Only?

I've been answering a lot of inquiries recently on whether or not netbooks are the next big trend in the corporate space and publications such as InformationWeek are all over the netbook phenomenon. Last week I wrote a post in response to a Forrester analyst who implied that enterprises will buy fewer laptops and equip workers with just [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 21:55:00

Christmas in Kansas (2008)

Toward the Escondido I RideIf you've never felt the claustrophobic anxiety of being pressed into a huge mass of people, all slowly driving toward the same (but individual) goal, I'd recommend O'Hare Airport at 5AM on December the 22nd.There seemed ten thousand holiday travelers, replete with a hundred thousand pounds of luggage, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 11:25:00

Предсказания Кюнстлера на 2009 - США, Нефть, Геополитика, Путин

Спонсор месяца - #1 RX pharmacy affiliate program!Сайт дня (как попасть) - http://www.business-magazine.ru/There are two realities "out there" now competing for verification among those who think about national affairs and make things happen. The dominant one (let's call it the Status Quo) [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 07:59:00

Back to Basics: Start doing the little money-saving things again

I’ll admit that when I get a little bit of breathing room in our budget, I get lazy. I’ll go out with friends to lunch, or head to the vending machine for a snack. I don’t plan finances as much as I should. And it costs me more than if I did plan and went the cheaper route. Doing these little money-saving things takes time [more...]

Date: 2008-11-02 05:58:15

A Toast To Another Good Year

Today is the eighth day of 2009 already. Another 2 more weeks the Chinese all over the world will be ushering in Chinese New Year of Ox.Most Chinese homes have started their normal yearly house spring cleaning again. I went through ... , had it once when I was invited to a friend's house in Kuching where the friend got it on the way back [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 00:40:00

Barack Obama and climate change

Few challenges facing America — and the world — are more urgent than combating climate change. The science is beyond dispute and the facts are clear. Sea levels are rising. Coastlines are shrinking. We’ve seen record drought, spreading famine, and storms that are growing stronger with each passing hurricane season.Well, indeed [more...]

Date: 2008-11-20 15:48:00

Cold Old & don’t want to Fold

Yesterday was a long - odd day. I was home- it was my day off- ms 18 had plans with a friend so she wasn’t home & I had the appointment to get my new satellite receiver installed between 12 & 5 which meant that I really couldn’t go anywhere (especially since Thursdays are my only day to catch up my sleep a little & so I slept in that morning & [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 02:16:02

Forecast for 2009

Introduction       There are two realities "out there" now competing for verification among those who think about national affairs and make things happen. The dominant one (let's call it the Status Quo) is that our problems of finance and economy will self-correct and allow the project of a "consumer" economy to resume in "growth" mode [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 03:33:57

Early Spring Cleaning

Well, it’s January in California, and to all you people in the Midwest and East Coast, that usually means lots of cursing or dreaming of our weather ... s to mid 80’s all this week.  Since we only have two seasons (fire and rain), spring cleaning can happen ... the ultimate goal is to reduce the clutter in the house [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 05:45:34

Obama To Choose Portuguese Water Dog Or Labradoodle

Future headlines might read like “why didn’t Obama choose an American Breed?” I can see the tabloids now. Of course, these would be referring to the soon-to-be-adopted puppy the Obama’s will bring to the White House. I know many of you will wonder what this has to do with Social Commerce, but I wanted [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 13:28:13

continued border activity…

NOTE: I am writing this post because several people sent me notes after following my Twitter updates yesterday. I wanted people to be able to read fully what happened. Initially I intended to post this on my personal blog rather than the Ecclesia Collective blog. There are three reasons why I post about these issues on the EC blog [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 18:17:41

We Need A Resolution…

The old year is passed, the new one afoot and it all seems too soon, too fast ... in the car just to drive and zone out to whatever melody the stereo system opts to sing to me. Normally it’ ... , cleaning out the wardrobes and preparing for whatever lays ahead. I actually had hurdles to leap [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 16:07:34

Making The Move

I have mentioned more than once on this blog our need to move out of our current home ( ... and some other sources we should be ok managing ) . House prices are nice just now, we can get a 4 bedroom ... about 10 days ) . Gives us maybe 2 weeks to get all the decorating/sorting/cleaning done. Nothing [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 15:06:49

Still cleaning with an introspective twist

I have made my lists of projects I want to complete this year, and here is the corresponding fabric ... . We are having a weekend virtual retreat at my house which should be enough time to finish the project ... an emphasis on getting the curtains, bedquilts, art quilts, and pillows done for the house. It could [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 20:18:00

Two days to catch up on

The past two days have been both too crazy to get to my computer but we also had some serious internet problems and our server was completely down ... so quickly with cleaning up, fetching water, breakfast, shower and out the door but somehow I wasn’ ... in his Friday preaching schedule. I love Fridays [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 18:15:00

Do Acne Blackheads Natural Treatments Work?

acne can be very stressful; our skin can say so much about us they do not see our best that can affect many areas of our lives ... . The same process can be used with garlic juice, mint juice, and many other natural products. A simple ... to the doctor; landlords acne treatment which requires only natural ingredients that often can be found [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 06:03:46

Gates of Vienna News Feed 10/7/2008

The news feed is being published early tonight because both Dymphna and I are leaving and will be out until very late. Tomorrow night we’ll return to the normal schedule.USACongress Opens Hearings on Financial MeltdownJihad Still Threatens United StatesOlice Detonate Suspicious Backpack at MosqueProphet Bride Novel Published in US Europe and the [more...]

Date: 2008-10-08 00:05:00

Marc Rich! Again??

Matthews: Bush is Like the Cop Who Shoots an Unarmed ManBy David Neiwert - Crooks and LiarsDiscussing the Bush legacy Friday, Chris Matthews on MSNBC's Hardball came up with a good metaphorMatthews: I found it interesting that the president, who admitted he was wrong about WMDs as a justification for war, called it a "disappointment [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 18:23:00

My New Eco-Love

I haven't shared any eco tips for a long time!  I haven't had anything new to share.  But yesterday, I got some new inspiration! ... sink and on the grout used on our tile countertops, shower walls, and floors (it's that cement ... when you are cleaning.  When the girls got home from school yesterday, they both noticed and said the house smelled [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 18:13:26

Setting The Stage Where Creativity Meets Business

What one word describes Shayla Noel and Sherrie Robinson, the mother-and-daughter team who recently launched EZ Design Staging? If one asks coworkers, associates, and clients, the word is “unforgettable”! For some time, the circumstances in their lives had been catapulting them towards this moment [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 20:17:45

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Seized by the Government: Likely Results

Fannie Mae (the Federal National Mortgage Association) and Freddie Mac (the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation) ... . Allison did not do such a great job of cleaning up the mess left by his predecessor at that company ... will be somewhat positive. You’ll see some drop in mortgage rates because it’ll decrease the uncertainty” [more...]

Date: 2008-09-09 12:30:26

New Uses for OLD FORDS (Nov, 1928)

view additional pages New Uses for OLD FORDS Rescued from a grave in the junk heap, Tin Lizzie dons working clothes and makes money for the ingenious man who thinks of new ways to use her cheap and ample power. Have you a new use for an old Ford? For all ideas published the editors of Modern Mechanics will pay five dollars—with a bonus for [more...]

Date: 2008-10-21 15:14:29

1977

Ice, snow, rain, we have it all today in the heart of Indiana. The boy was a bit down, all of the area schools were on a 2-hour delay, but not his ... the Government will have to borrow the money. The dollar falls, prices for international goods will rise -- especially oil -- and the extra $1.00 a gallon in gas prices will eat that $40 in no time [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 14:03:00

Gates of Vienna News Feed 11/13/2008

My favorite story tonight is the one about the Bedouin tribe in north Israel who claim Barack Hussein Obama as a long-lost member.Should be an interesting family reunion…Thanks to Abu Elvis, C. Cantoni, Diana West, Insubria, JD, Kahane loyalist, TB, and all the other tipsters who sent these in. Headlines and articles are below the fold [more...]

Date: 2008-11-14 04:59:00

American people are selfish

By Chant Mayer I LIVE in Glendale, Arizona, USA. I am a 36 year old female, married and have a 10 year old house in the suburbs of a multi-million dollar area. Of course, our real estate has plummeted in price too. So I guess you could say I am now living in the half million dollar area of the suburbs. I don’t care anymore anyway [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 21:47:42

JP Morgan Chase buys WaMu out

JP Morgan Chase has taken over the deposit taking subsidiary of Washington Mutual. The transaction is effective immediately, meaning it has closed. This is the biggest deal in FDIC activity yet. Note: I originally heard this story just before 9PM ET and Yves Smith at naked capitalism has her take on the news [more...]

Date: 2008-09-26 00:47:37

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