Questions to Ask Cleaning Business Prospects
When meeting face-to-face with a prospect for your cleaning business, you need to prepare yourself ahead of time. Make a list of probing questions that will get your prospect talking about their concerns so you can show them your expert problem-solving skills.You want to do more listening than talking during this meeting. In order to help your prospect solve their problems you need to get as much information from them as possible. When crafting your list of questions, think of questions that get the prospect thinking. You want them to say, "That's a good question - I've never been asked that before." Here is a list of questions to get you started:· What prompted your company to look into making a change with your cleaning service? (ask this question if they contacted you)· Why are you pu

Domain Registration is Inexpensive and Protects Your Business
In an ever-changing world it is important to have some stability. To this end you should look into registering your domain name because:• Your domain name becomes a point of association for you. Clients remember your site and services by the domain name.• Even if you change your web host the domain name would go with you and clients will be re-directed to your web site.• Since brand recall is the basis to good marketing a permanent domain name will become the “brand” that represents your company.Registering a domain is cheap. It only costs between US$ 1 and US$ 3 per month. Many registrars also offer free parking for the domain names. The registration can be done by the web host or you as an individual.• Make a list of domain names you are using in your business and are likely t

Four Ways to Keep Your Business Going During a Crisis
If you are a small or home based entrepreneur or a solo business owner, there is little room in your business for taking a sick day when a crisis or stressful life event happens. In today's world our lives are complex, fast paced, and challenging. How do you keep your business going and growing during the times when life happens and you can't work?There are several answers to this question, and one very important caveat - if you have not yet built into your business plan this kind of possibility, then take some time and do it now!When you are in the planning stages of business, you must consider how you are going to manage your business when you are not available. Will you hire a virtual assistant, get help from your family, or make some other arrangement?When you are planning your busine

Back-End Selling With Affiliate Marketing
More and more people are getting into online businesses for a variety of reasons. First, because the Internet provides a wide market for businessmen and selling through the Net is often synonymous to selling their products to the world. Second, because starting an online business requires only a portion of the start-up cost that you will need if you are to set up an actual business establishment. And third, because you would virtually gain more profit online, considering your wide market and your savings.One aspect of online business today that many people, businessmen and non-businessman alike, are willing to get into is affiliate marketing. Simply said, affiliate marketing is a relationship between a merchant, who has the need to sell and advertise his products, and his affiliates, who are willing to

It Doesn't Matter How Slowly You Move Forward!
Fortunately, our days don’t come neatly sorted and labeled in advance.For instance, you won’t see a calendar that highlights holidays and predicts good days, bad days, and everything in between.Yet we do this, in our own minds, don’t we?For instance, I try to write on a daily basis. Sometimes, articles flow into my keyboard like beautiful breezes, moving me along steadily and gracefully. On other days, when I face the doldrums, I have to put the little outboard motor into the water and put-put along.Ideally, we would be so perfectly in the moment, every day, that we wouldn’t have time to hear that internal voice declare, “Gee, this is a tough day!” or “I can’t think of anything to write, for the life of me!”As the Zen folks say, we’d simply “chop wood and carry water,” without c

Questions To Ask Yourself Before You Take The Plunge Into Starting A Business
So you truly believe that you are able to have a business. Why, because others have one? Or because you think you would be good at it. So did I until I failed for the first three times. Then, I got a clue. Business doesn’t just happen!!!Before you make that move into what may be the worst idea you have ever had in life, take the following test for success. Be honest with you because it is you who will be made or broken in the process.1. Are you organized or do you have to try to remember where your house keys are on a daily basis?2. Do you have personal drive or do you have to be persuaded to change the channel on the TV?3. Are you a leader or do you have trouble getting your pet to go outside?4. How is your health? Do you get a cold when there is a 1-degree change in the weathe