Microfiber Mopping Systems: Safety and Economics Win Out Over Tradition

Filed under:Money Making — posted on May 22, 2008 @ 2:33 pm

Microfiber mopping systems are becoming more widely used in commercial and hospital settings over traditional mopping systems for a variety of economic and safety reasons.

  • Microfiber mop heads are extremely absorbent, holding six or seven times its weight in water, which means it can hold enough water to get the job done, yet doesn’t drip like the traditional wet mop. Because the mop head needs less water, floors dry more quickly because they’re merely damp, not visibly wet. Floors cleaned with microfiber mopping systems typically dry in 1/3 the time of traditional mopping systems. This makes for a much safer environment, resulting in fewer slip/fall accidents.
  • Instead of continually rinsing and wringing, the soiled microfiber mop heads are replaced with clean pads, which helps to eliminate cross contamination. Then all the dirty pads are washed and readied for re-use. Each mop pad can be washed and re-used hundreds of times. Traditional mop heads cannot hold up to repeated washings and need to be replaced more often.
  • Another safety feature of microfiber mopping systems is that they are ergonomically friendly for users. The mop handles are very light-weight, and the mop heads swivel, so there is no need to use awkward movements and postures while mopping. The handles also have adjustable lengths, so each user can adjust the length to match their height.
  • Microfiber mopping systems eliminate the need for buckets and wringers, which means there is no need to strain back muscles by lifting heavy mops soaked with water and then pressing down on wringers to get rid of the excess water. Workers also find microfiber mopping systems less tiring because there is no extra lifting, moving, dumping, and rinsing needed as is the case with traditional mopping systems.
  • There is also a huge economic savings in chemical usage when making the switch to microfiber mopping systems. There is no need for large amounts of cleaners or disinfectants, which need to be added to the traditional mop bucket filled with water. Although disinfectants and cleaners can be used with microfiber mopping systems, very small amounts are needed.

Here is a simple method that can be used to incorporate a microfiber mopping system to your cleaning program:

  1. Place a clean plastic basin on the cleaning cart, and then fill with water at the utility sink in the janitor closet. Add a small amount of cleaning solution to the water if needed.
  2. Place a number of microfiber mop pads into the water to soak.
  3. When ready to mop, wring out a mop pad, drop it flat on the floor and attach to the mop head (microfiber mop pads and heads use velcro to attach to each other).
  4. To change the mop head, simply turn the mop upside down, remove the soiled pad, place it in a bag on the cart, and replace with a fresh pad from the plastic basin.
  5. At the end of the shift, the soiled microfiber pads are cleaned and dried for re-use.

If you’re like most small cleaning companies, you’re looking for ways to save money and provide safer working conditions for your workers. Incorporating a microfiber mopping system into your cleaning program will help to save your company money on expensive mop buckets, mops and mop heads. Even better is the fact that you’ll see fewer slip/fall accidents, and fewer lifting and ergonomic injuries to your employees.

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What Makes An Entrepreneur Tick?

Filed under:Money Making — posted on May 16, 2008 @ 11:21 am

It is only natural that when you start a business, you are
doing something different than most people. They not only will
look at you because you stick out like a sore thumb _ but human
nature will cause people to naturally ridicule what you are
doing. They will tell you all types of things like: “You’re not
business material.” “You can’t make a living working for
yourself.” “You’ll fail because nobody can ever make any money
that way.”

Entrepreneurship is not just about having a lot of ideas or
business sense. It is also about having a lot of guts. You have
to build self-confidence in yourself. You have to only be
concerned with pleasing yourself and your Creator (God) _ not
mankind. Then, when (and if) you should fail with this
particular venture, you’ll just dust yourself off and start
again. It doesn’t matter if people “think” you’re nuts! They
aren’t paying your rent and running your life. Don’t be
concerned with what people “think” you should be. Just please
yourself and do what you feel is right. People are too busy
competing with society and “keeping up with the Jones’s” that
they do things they are not comfortable with just to appease
them and look “normal” (whatever that is.)

And if you have to _ start out small in building your
self-confidence. I used to be so self-conscious that I would
never eat at a restaurant alone because I thought people would
believe I was lonely and had no friends. Unbelievable, but true.
But, everyday I worked on walking into a restaurant, taking a
magazine to read and eating alone. I would glance around, and to
my amazement, no one ever looked at me. No one cared that I was
eating alone. Then _ it dawned on me; “Who cares what these
people think? I’ll never see them again.” Besides, there were a
lot of other people eating alone also and I could absorb myself
in the magazine I had took to read. Now, I can eat in
restaurants and not give any thought to the people around me.

But back to business _ when most people do fail in business they
try to “save face” by telling everyone they are “just in a
slump” and everything will be back to normal soon. Besides, they
don’t want people to say: “I told you so” and destroy any pride
they are still hanging onto. Unfortunately, this only delays the
problem and creates even more false hope for the people in your
life as well as yourself.

The best thing to do for anybody in this catastrophe is to
swallow their pride and admit they screwed up. Just face it head
on! Admit that you were so proud of your accomplishments that
your mind became diluted with “visions of sugar plums and
fantasyland.”

If your small business is beyond repair, go out and find a job
and begin working on your next small business in the near
future. Keep your family fed and your financial obligations met
but look forward to the day when you WILL succeed with your new
business venture.

And why should you try again? Simply because you won’t make the
same mistakes you made this time. If you built something
successful before (but failed), you are certain to build the
next business stronger and wiser. Even if you fail the second
time, it won’t be because of mistakes you made the first time.
You’ll learn more and more _ and eventually be successful. It’s
inevitable!

Salehoo :Salehoo Drop Store Software

Filed under:Product Stuff, Ultimate Consumer, Money Making — posted on @ 4:52 am

Salehoo: Australia Wholesale Directory
Dora has very good reputation in the industry, supplying a list of retailed products. You can find wholesale price for more than 1 million products. It’s also recommended by eBay as eBay Certificated Service Provider. Dora will give you 6 days free trial period, which is good enough for you to find the low price products. Recommend to renew your service with it only after you find the appropriate wholesale price product. Ebay has become a very competitive market and in order to profit from it you have to think outside the box and do things differently otherwise you will pay a heavy price through financial loss simply buying a list like Salehoo is not the answer, so learn all about Salehoo wholesalers.

SaleHoo is one of the fastest growing product sourcing portals on the internet which is the real benefit of Salehoo dropshippers. More importantly to successfully start a wholesale business you need to be on top of product trends and also the Salehoo Suppliers. This constant evolution guarantees most up to date list of legitimate suppliers

Salehoo Wholesale As Seen On Tv Toys:
You also have to consider who you’ll be selling your wholesale bags to-who is your market? If you’re talking to a younger crowd, they may have lower purchasing power, so your lineup of wholesale bags should fall within a given price range. Ebay powersellers trust Salehoo dropshippers and Salehoo prices.

You just end up buying items wholesale then when you sell them on eBay half the time you just get back what you paid for it, so try to join the Salehoo forums. Another sign of a fake wholesale distributor is if they require a membership, which will be the Salehoo customers. See Salehoo Review.

Give Your Home Business a Cash Infusion!

Filed under:Money Making — posted on May 13, 2008 @ 5:55 pm

Whether you have your own business already, or are looking for a
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I will share with you the secrets of the most successful
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expectation - you’ve been around long enough to know that you
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What I will show you is a way to start your own website with
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Many affiliate programs out there make big promises, get you set
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Is Terrorism a Part of Globalization?

Filed under:Money Making — posted on May 12, 2008 @ 1:21 am

Is Terrorism a Part of Globalization? In the world today, there
is a growing trend in violence, both domestically and
internationally, in the form of terrorism. It is present in our
everyday lives and in every part of the world–some more than
others. Terrorism takes on many forms and has had an impact on
all our lives in one way or another. Whether it affected us
directly with the loss of a loved one or an incident we were a
part of, or indirectly by heightened security at the airports
causing delays, sudden drop in a stock values we own, or
emotionally by the countless reports and images displayed by the
media, terrorism has affected us all and shows no signs of going
away anytime soon.

The underlying question then, is what has caused the sudden trend in
terrorism? Has it always been around but just not focused on
by the media, or has something taken place on a global scale
causing the sudden trend? There are many groups and a magnitude
of theories on the sudden trend of terrorism.

Political scientists worldwide are at the forefront of this
investigation. Amongst this group are many differing opinions
and theories. One popular theory used to explain the sudden
trend in terrorism is globalization.

There is another idea that there is an association between
terrorism and globalization - groups which commit terrorism from
areas where little globalization has occurred leading to a third
association between terrorism and globalization, known as a
“North-South” divide. The countries of the North (i.e. United
States, Canada, and Europe) are more developed than those of the
South (i.e. Africa, South America, India) and since 1980 the
economic gap has spread apart tremendously during the
accelerated globalization phase. As this gap has spread,
westernization or forced norms have taken place. This is due to
the fact that organizations, mostly commercial, have moved into
these southern areas for production purposes. Many poorer
nations are now feeling the double punch of a slowing global
economy and political unrest at home. They want rich nations to
open their borders to exports of agricultural commodities,
textiles and steel. But rich nations, including the United
States, aren’t in any mood to do this - the best way to fight
terrorism over the long term is to give young people in poorer
nations a reason to believe they can make it in the new global
economy.

Globalization is also creating enormous economic, political, and
cultural losers who have some idea of how the winners are doing
which creates more fertile ground for terrorism by exacerbating
ethnic and cultural conflict.

Interested in this subject? Try this link for more of the same

4 Simple Steps To A Successful Product

Filed under:Money Making — posted on May 10, 2008 @ 8:22 pm

Many marketers and product developers make a disastrous mistake:
They develop and sell products that nobody wants.

This is usually how it goes: The product developer starts
programming software or writing a book, just because he is
interested in the subject, without looking at the market. Then
once the product is ready, he starts promoting it, just to find
out he can make no sales.

There must be a better way. Let’s look at how it should be done
instead.

You should always create a product that solves a problem. The
problem has to be serious enough for people to want to pay for a
solution to their problem. Good examples are: People who are
overweight are willing to pay for a solution to that problem.
People who suspects that their husband or wife is cheating on
them are willing to pay to find out. People who can save a lot
of time by automating a time-consuming task are willing to pay
for the saved time.

So here are the simple steps to creating a successful product:

1. Identify a common problem There are many problems that need
to be solved in this world. The problem has to be a common one,
so that enough people need a solution to this problem. And the
problem has to be important enough so that people are willing to
pay for a solution

2. Provide a solution to the problem This is the product
development phase. You have to solve a product that actually
solves the problem that these people are experiencing.

3. Find people experiencing the problem This simply means that
you need targeted advertising. Where to find your target
audience will depend on the specific problem. Maybe you will
find them on search engines. Make sure that your keywords are
very specifically targeted at those who experience the problem
you want to solve. Or maybe you can find your target audience in
certain communities, such as online forums or self help groups.

4. Prove that your solution works Once you have found your
target audience, they will only be willing to buy your solution
once you prove to them that your solution actually works. The
proof can be social proof (such as testimonials), or it can
consist of examples of the results. If you are selling software
that removes red eyes from photos, the proof can consist of
before and after pictures.

That is really all there is to it. Follow the simple steps as
outlined above and your product is a guaranteed success.

Writing The Before & After Formula

Filed under:Money Making — posted on April 30, 2008 @ 10:41 pm

The Before and After Scenario is one of the
oldest, and best, methods used by advertisers and copywriters.
And why not? It works because it paints a vivid portrait for
your prospect of how he can realize a major change in his life.

A “Before-Scenario” depicts a person whose circumstances are
much like that of your targeted prospect: overweight, broke,
stuck in a dead-end job, bald or what have you. This is a person
your targeted prospect can identify with because he or she
languishes under the very same circumstances.

Then you present an “After-Scenario” depicting one of your
satisfied customers who is delighted with the changes your
product or service has brought about. She is now fit and trim
(and has the requisite bathing suit pictures to prove it), they
now has enough money to live the life they always dreamed about,
or he now has a full head of hair and is irresistible to the
opposite sex.

The simple truth is that now matter how familiar we are with
this kind of advertising, it still works because the targeted
prospect identifies with your Before-Scenario and strongly wants
to escape from those circumstances. And the After-Scenario
offers the prospect the very life he or she wants to escape to.

But at times the very familiarity of this formula may simply get
old in your market. Nevertheless, there are a few ways to get
even more mileage out of this old advertising workhorse by
adding a few twists:

1. Create A “Virtual” After-Scenario. Sometimes you may
not want to use a real person’s situation, but want your reader
to visualize his or her own Before and After Scenario.

You do this by injecting a lot of emotion into the problem your
product or service is designed to solve.

Suppose your company provides auto financing for people with
poor credit. You could create a Before-Scenario by vividly
describing the embarrassment of driving an old, dilapidated car.
Remind the prospect of the constant fear of driving a car that
could break down on a remote highway late at night or on a busy
highway in the middle of rush hour traffic. You could also, stir
up the humiliation of being turned down for financing from
traditional lenders.

Then you paint a second, emotional-filled scene of your prospect
driving an attractive, dependable car, after being treated with
dignity and respect by your finance officers. Paint an emotional
picture of your prospect being seen by friends and neighbors
driving this nice looking, late model car and having the peace
of mind that the monthly payments are reasonable and that the
car is in very good working order.

2. Depict a Negative After Scenario. Sometimes you have
to educate your prospect about why buying your competitors’
cheaper product is more costly in the long run. Here is an
example, written by Dan Kennedy, to sell an ordinary product
like shoes: “…but if you insist on just wearing any old pair
of ordinary shoes, here’s what you have to look forward to in
your so-called golden years; fallen arches…intense lower back
pain…even pain from just walking around a shopping mall!
You’ll be asking your friends to slow down so you can keep up.
You’ll be futilely soaking your feet at night like some old
fuddy-duddy. You may even need pain pills just to get to sleep.”

With a Negative After-Scenario, you are projecting an
undesirable future resulting from your prospect’s shortsighted
attempt to save a little money now by buying an inferior
product, or by not spending any money at all to solve a known
problem while there is still time.

3. A Back-Story Scenario. This Before and After formula
is not seen by your reader, but is sketched out for you the
writer and marketer. Even if I am writing copy that follows a
different format, I will often write out a before and after
comparison for my own use when I begin my work. This enables me
to clearly see the benefits the prospects are seeking in the
form of specific changes they want to experience in their lives.

I want to know what the prospect is dissatisfied with now, and
how intensely that dissatisfaction feels. I also want to know
how the prospect wants to feel in the future and what changes
must take place in order to achieve that desired state and the
emotions that will come with it.

Let’s face it, I don’t want to overlook a single benefit that my
readers might be seeking. And without my own draft version of a
before-after sketch, I might miss the very benefit that will
trigger the most response.

Every worthwhile product or service helps to bring about a
desired change. And let’s face it, all of us, regardless of what
we sell, are really in the business of selling change. A person
who is satisfied with the status quo is not a prospect, and will
never be a customer. But when that person is ready for a change,
and has become dissatisfied with the way things are right now, a
strong Before and After Scenario can show them the way to find
that change.

COPYRIGHT © 2005, Charles Brown

Increase Your Income with an Organization Plan

Filed under:Money Making — posted on April 29, 2008 @ 1:08 pm

In a recent article, Increase Your Income with an Organized
Marketing Plan, I talked about how to organize your daily
marketing tasks so that you could be more efficient in your
marketing, save time, and make more money.

There are additional ways that you can organize yourself so that
your are more effective.

One major advantage of organizing your self is that you can save
time. And as the old adage says, “Time is money”. If your
information is scattered all over the place it is hard to find
and you will waste time looking for it.

It is easy to join several programs, especially if you start
joining traffic exchanges or safe lists. Keeping track of their
information can be a real chore. Most of them will send you an
email. You can print out the emails and file them. You can also
save all the emails in a folder. While it is a good idea to do
both of these, it will take time to look up the information
later.

Create a file where you can store all of the information from
the email in one place. This file could be made with a word
processor, a spreadsheet, or a database program such as Access.
Each has its advantages and disadvantages.

With a word processor you have everything in one file that is
easy to scan. However, you should alphabetize the entries as you
enter them.

With a spreadsheet you can have one line per program and easily
sort them by program name, program type, or date. Sometimes when
you save a URL in a cell the cell looks strange.

A data base program takes a little longer to set up, but once
done you have nice fields with labels for each piece of
information.

Use whatever is best for you or what you are most familiar with.
The point is to organize them for easy and speedy access. Store
the file where you can get to it easy and fast.

For each program I suggest that you store at least the name of
program, login URL, referral URL, your user name, your password,
date you joined the program, type of program, and cost. You may
also want to store your email address used for the program,
program contact email, how you found the program (especially if
u joined from a portal), and some notes on the program.

As you join programs you will have costs and income. Generally
these costs are tax deductible and the income may have to be
reported. Also, you will want to know if you are making or
losing money. This is another thing to track.

Tracking expenses and income can be as simple or complicated as
you want it to be. A spreadsheet is one of the simplest ways.
Set up columns for date, program name, cost amount, income
amount, and source. The source would be PayPal, ClickBank,
check, credit card, etc.

Once the spreadsheet is set up you can enter the information as
it occurs of gather and enter it monthly.

More complicated ways to save your financial information is by
using an accounting program. The advantage of an accounting
program is you can get some very nice reports from them.

Your downloads can also become very hard to find after a while.
It is easy to vaguely remember downloading an ebook last month
and then spend a lot of time trying to find it on your computer.

A spreadsheet or database program will work great for storing
this information. I store name of the ebook or software, whether
it is an ebook or software, author, source (usually a url), path
on my computer where the file is found and the name of the file,
cost (if any), whether I have any rights, such as resell rights
or giveaway rights, whether it is brandable, whether or not I
have printed the book, and a brief description. You may also
want a category field so that you can group related items.

These 3 lists, plus the daily task list mentioned in my previous
article, are the main lists that I keep. If you would like a
copy of the previous article send an email to
organize@profits-for-life.com or visit
http://www.the-home-business-center.com/articles.php.

You may have additional things to want to track.

How you organize your lists is up to you. There is no correct or
incorrect way. There may be better and worse ways, however this
is also dependent on what software you have and what you like to
use best.

The point is, just organize. In the long run you will save
yourself a tremendous amount of time and frustration. The
Internet is huge, so don’t get lost in it.

If you are just starting out this may seem like a waste of time
to you. However, now is the best time to start. It is easiest to
organize when you have only a little information to organize.
Later you will be very thankful that you took the time to do it.

Be flexible. As time goes on you may discover that you want to
change how you are organizing. Go ahead and make the change.
Fine-tune it so that it works for you. The goal is to have the
information that you want and need in one easy to use place when
you want it.

Sometimes computer can be ornery. They can crash when you don’t
expect it and always at a very inconvenient time. So back up
your files on a regular basis. Back them to a disk, a CD, your
hosting service, some free web space, or whatever else you can.
Backing up can save you the frustrating of having to start all
over again if you have a system problem.

The Internet can be a fun and exciting place. It will be even
more fun if you are organized. It can also be a profitable
place. The less time you spend looking for information the more
time you will have for your marketing efforts, which will mean
more income for you.

Questions and Questions…How About Answers?

Filed under:Money Making — posted on March 21, 2008 @ 6:27 am

Have you ever thought about kids at age 4 or so, ask
questions all day long about everything and anything.
But then, years pass and where did the questions go?

Why after the youth do the questions go? Is it because
of knowledge or is it because of lack of interest? What
do you think?

What questions do you ask yourself about your life and
about your purpose and about your goals whether they
be about business or personal aspects?

Do your questions look something like this?

Who am I? Where am I going? Why do I exist? What
what I put on Earth for? Is there more to my life then
just getting up and going to bed and going to work and
going to?

What about my finances? Was I put here to be rich and
if so, where is the money? Do I play the lottery expecting
to win or working hard at work or at taking control of my
own destiny with working on your own business. Or, what
about this… Since I have all the money in the world, why
am I not happy and content?

What about social and fun? Do you have fun and laugh and
do you quesion what fun would be in your life? Have you
settled into a routine that is just that of mere existence and
your friends are laughing and having fun?

Are you a half full or half empty person that looks at the positive
or negative side of life? Who do you like to hang around… Positive
or Negative friends?

What about your physical nature? Are you healthy and fit? Or
if not, what do you want to be or look like different then you are
now? Are you eating right, sleeping well, exercising every day?

What about your emotions? Yeh, they all have questions too..
Do you have intimate relationships? Do you share and care with
others? Do you have friends that care and help you when you are
in need? Do you reach out and help others?

See, the subject was about questions. The purpose is to leave
enough space and pondering for what the questions might have
you ask and more of yourself.

Here is another question that I often ask especially when I go to
the grocery store and at the check out.. “how can they write any
thing new about weight loss, beauty for skin, hair stuff”? There is
an amazing thing, notice when you go to the check outs that there
is something in almost every magazine about how to loose pounds
or inches.

And, the last area of question would be what that of your spiritual
questions and growth areas? Do you spend time getting in touch
of the real purpose of your existence? Have you defined your real
purpose on being here?

So, what would be the answer to any or all of the above questions?
Would they not have to be different for each one of us. Why? Well,
we are all unique individuals right down to our fingerprints, personalities
experiences, and life as it is.

Do we all share a commonality? It is my belief that the answer is yes.

What would that be, well my opinion is that we are all seeking
truth fulfillment and our higher purpose for existence and servitude.

About the Author
Judy LaMont, R.N. MA.Sec Ed. is an Internet Consultant
who shows Entrepreneurs how start their online home-based
businesses in very easy simple steps. She resides in Orlando, Fl.
and is well known for her Internet knowledge and dedication to
helping people. Judy can be reached at support@bizwizzle.com;
http://www.bizwizzle.com; or at 407-832-1996.

Mr.

Filed under:Money Making — posted on March 17, 2008 @ 1:34 am

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