This is No25 in a list of domestic cleaning tips that I have compiled to help people in their constant and ongoing battle to keep their homes spick and span and domestically cleaned! I am publishing these domestic cleaning tips over the coming days and weeks in a very easy to digest simple one at a time manner.

Cleaning tip No25 gives advice on cleaning glass table tops.

Glass table tops can be cleaned by applying on the surface a small quantity of lemon juice and then drying off with paper towels. For a sparkling table polish off with an old newspaper.

New cleaning tips are always more than welcome.

• Cleaning tip No24 Delegate
• Cleaning tip No23 Dusting in awkward corners
• Cleaning tip No22 Scorch marks on carpets
• Cleaning tip No21 Dirty oil paintings
• Cleaning tip No20 Paint brushes
• Cleaning tip No19 Chrome cleaning
• Cleaning tip No18 Heel marks on wooden floors
• Cleaning tip No17 Washing machines
• Cleaning tip No9  Grout cleaning

Please note that I have produced these cleaning tips in good faith and has such will take no responsibility for any failure or damage that may be caused or attributed by the use of any of the tips given.

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Robin Harrison is the managing Director of Dolly Char (UK) Ltd. Dolly Char (UK) Ltd is one of the fastest growing domestic cleaning franchise companies in the UK today giving people the opportunity to work from the comfort of their own home.

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Franchise business opportunity websites

Franchise business opportunity websites have sprung up in ever increasing numbers in recent years and have become an important part of many franchise businesses marketing strategy.

There are many benefits that these franchise opportunity websites offer the company wishing to franchise their business such as increasing their businesses profile through gaining them a much more noticable online presence.

Specialist keyword targeting for individual franchise businesses through their in house SEO departments helps the franchise business receive lots of targeted leads.

The franchise business opportunity website advertising companies usually have a very high budget allocation that they use on pay per click search engines such as google adwords which gives them a very strong online presence for strategic keywords and phrases to help attract potential franchisees to their websites.

Many franchise business opportunity websites have access to vast mailing lists of potential budding entrepreneurs that they have accumulated over time and this enables them to be able to send out weekly or monthly newsletters generating much more traffic towards their websites.

The leads that are forwarded on generally have a lot of important and useful information for the franchise business to digest about the franchise enquirer such as telephone numbers, addresses, financial information and also work history etc.

Franchise business opportunity websites provide a franchise business with a steady flow of leads that can be comfortably dealt with as they filter through, instead of the bulk all at once leads that some other advertising mediums deliver which can be difficult to deal with in an adequate fashion when arriving in bulk.

A few franchise business opportunity websites allow franchise businesses to have links back to their own business websites so helping the franchise companies own websites achieve an higher online profile.

Generally franchise business opportunity websites offer very competitive rates to advertise franchise businesses compared to other forms of franchise advertising such as newspapers, radio stations, television and magazines ect. Generally the longer the period of time that a franchise company books to advertise on these franchise business opportunity websites for then the better the deal that can be negotiated.

What disadvantages are there when using a specialist franchise business opportunity website?

One of the main disadvantages is that many of these specialist franchise business opportunity websites have is that they feel under immense pressure to generate a vast quantity of leads for their business clients and so often when a person as submitted an online form enquiring about a certain franchise business opportunity the franchise advertising website in lots of cases give them the option to click submit again and request franchise brochures from all the other businesses that are advertising on their website. This can mean that many leads that are generated have absolutly no interest what so ever in the franchise business that as received their enquiry.

Also some franchise leads that are generated are from people who just because they have found the franchise business opportunity website feel a inner compulsion to fill in the online form and submit it even though they have absolutely no interest what so ever in buying a business franchise.

Occasionally the forms received may also have being filled out incorrectly in particular such important details as phone numbers and email addresses might be in correct making it very difficult for the franchisor to follow up these franchise leads.

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Robin Harrison is the managing Director of Dolly Char (UK) Ltd. Dolly Char (UK) Ltd is one of the fastest growing domestic cleaning franchise companies in the UK today giving people the opportunity to work from the comfort of their own home.

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This is No24 in a list of domestic cleaning tips that I have compiled to assist householders in their relentless battle to keep their home clean and tidy! I’am uploading these domestic cleaning tips over the coming days and weeks in a very simple and easy format for householders to digest by publishing them just one at a time.

Cleaning tip No24 gives advice on delegating cleaning tasks.

Delegate cleaning tasks around all your family members. Always remember a job shared is a job halved!

New cleaning tips are always more than welcome.

• Cleaning tip No23 Dusting in awkward corners
• Cleaning tip No22 Scorch marks on carpets
• Cleaning tip No21 Dirty oil paintings
• Cleaning tip No20 Paint brushes
• Cleaning tip No19 Chrome cleaning
• Cleaning tip No18 Heel marks on wooden floors
• Cleaning tip No17 Washing machines
• Cleaning tip No9  Grout cleaning

Please note that I have produced these cleaning tips in good faith and has such will take no responsibility for any failure or damage that may be caused or attributed by the use of any of the tips given.

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Robin Harrison is the managing Director of Dolly Char (UK) Ltd. Dolly Char (UK) Ltd is one of the fastest growing domestic cleaning franchise companies in the UK today giving people the opportunity to work from the comfort of their own home.

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Sexy cleaning maids encourage more business

I have recently updated my marketing material and on my business leaflets I have included a photograph of a sexy cleaning maids. The photograph covers about 25% of the front side of the leaflet.

I have already delivered in the region of 4000 of these new business leaflets and I can honestly say that my hit rate per thousand as doubled. Is the reason for this increase the picture of the attractive cleaning maid or is it because all of a sudden people have more disposable income available to them?

My gut feeling is that it is the maid more than the increase in disposable income, what are your thoughts and have you tried something similar in the past?

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Robin Harrison is the managing Director of Dolly Char (UK) Ltd. Dolly Char (UK) Ltd is one of the fastest growing domestic cleaning franchise companies in the UK today giving people the opportunity to work from the comfort of their own home.

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I have produced a list of household domestic cleaning tips to help the public in their constant battle to keep their homes spick and span and domestically cleaned! This cleaning tip gives you advice on dusting in awkward corners of your house.  I am publishing these cleaning tips over the forthcoming days and weeks in a very easy to digest simple one at a time manner.

Cleaning tip No23 gives advice on dusting in awkward corners.

Dusting in awkward corners can at times prove very difficult. Using a dry paintbrush will enable you to get into these tight corners and cracks.

New cleaning tips are always more than welcome.

• Cleaning tip No22 Scorch marks on carpets
• Cleaning tip No21 Dirty oil paintings
• Cleaning tip No20 Paint brushes
• Cleaning tip No19 Chrome cleaning
• Cleaning tip No18 Heel marks on wooden floors
• Cleaning tip No17 Washing machines
• Cleaning tip No9  Grout cleaning

Please note that I have produced these cleaning tips in good faith and has such will take no responsibility for any failure or damage that may be caused or attributed by the use of any of the tips given.

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Robin Harrison is the managing Director of Dolly Char (UK) Ltd. Dolly Char (UK) Ltd is one of the fastest growing domestic cleaning franchise companies in the UK today giving people the opportunity to work from the comfort of their own home.

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Sexy Kissograms in Lincoln

This coming week I am going to be spending a few hours performing a few alterations to my various websites especially with in the area of the main body text on several of the pages and also the keywords tags on those same pages.

At present I have in excess of 300 different keywords and search phrases that I have covered for search engine optimism purposes.

I would be interested to hear what search term you would use if you were searching for a domestic cleaner local to you.

Obviously we are all individuals with different and varied ideas and your feedback would be greatly appreciated as I feel that at times I am trapped in my own little world and as such I may well be missing a few very good search terms that I have not previously thought of.

I have deliberately steered clear of giving you any domestic cleaning search engine examples as I do not want to influence your personal thoughts, this is why my main example is of a totally different and irrelevant service to the type of business that I operate!

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Robin Harrison is the managing Director of Dolly Char (UK) Ltd. Dolly Char (UK) Ltd is one of the fastest growing domestic cleaning franchise companies in the UK today giving people the opportunity to work from the comfort of their own home.

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Scorch marks on carpets cleaning tip No22

I am currently writing these domestic cleaning tips to help the public in their ongoing battle to keep their homes in tip top condition! I have being gradually publishing these useful domestic cleaning tips over the past days and weeks in a very easy to digest simple one at a time manner.

Cleaning tip No22 gives advice on removing mild scorch marks from carpets.

Mild scorch marks on carpets caused by open fires can sometimes be removed by simply rubbing the scorch mark with a cut raw onion.

New cleaning tips are always more than welcome.

• Cleaning tip No21 Dirty oil paintings
• Cleaning tip No20 Paint brushes
• Cleaning tip No19 Chrome cleaning
• Cleaning tip No18 Heel marks on wooden floors
• Cleaning tip No17 Washing machines
• Cleaning tip No9  Grout cleaning

Please note that I have produced these cleaning tips in good faith and has such will take no responsibility for any failure or damage that may be caused or attributed by the use of any of the tips given.

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Robin Harrison is the managing Director of Dolly Char (UK) Ltd. Dolly Char (UK) Ltd is one of the fastest growing domestic cleaning franchise companies in the UK today giving people the opportunity to work from the comfort of their own home.

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Robotic mode health & safety

I often wonder if I am alone in the world in my belief that obviously not all, but very many work place accidents happen when people go into what I decsribe as robotic mode?

My definition of robotic mode is to give you one example from within the building industry, A bricklayer who lays bricks day in day out for arguments sake knows his job so well that he can fall mentally into a world of his own and instead of concentrating on his job in hand his mind is maybe far away thinking about the pool match that coming evening or maybe taking his girlfriend out to the Friday night local disco, whilst he is in this state of mind even though his body is functioning and laying bricks perfectly his mind is far away. While in this dangerous state of mind if he is working high up on scaffolding and someone as left a trip hazard in front of him he may well not see it or realize that it is there and trip over and seriously injure himself if not tragically fall to his death! Some people may well call it daydreaming but I like to refer to it as robotic mode.

The point that I am trying to make is that when you are writing health & safety policies along with risk assessments and method statements how can you cater for the robotic mode? In my company one of my risk assessments that I have wrote asks for workers to stay alert at all times, but from my own experience this is nie on impossible for workers to do, especially when they are doing repetitive jobs. Can anyone come up with a realist answer? Other than spraying them with cold water every five minutes or so! We do have a responsibility for our own health & safety as well as other and across the board it is doing what is seen to be reasonably practical, but I believe many work place accidents are down to robotic mode and if a cure could be found to this problem it could well save many lives and 1000s of injuries.

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Robin Harrison is the managing Director of Dolly Char (UK) Ltd. Dolly Char (UK) Ltd is one of the fastest growing domestic cleaning franchise companies in the UK today giving people the opportunity to work from the comfort of their own home.

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I am producing a list of domestic cleaning tips to help and assist the public in their constant and ongoing battle to keep their homes clean! I am publishing these cleaning tips over the forthcoming days and weeks in a very easy to digest simple one at a time manner.

You can clean dirty oil paintings by rubbing them gently with a raw potato and then gently wiping them down with a damp clean cloth rinsing it in cold water. I would recommend although if it is an expensive oil painting to seek professional assistance.

New cleaning tips are always more than welcome.

• Cleaning tip No20 Paint brushes
• Cleaning tip No19 Chrome cleaning
• Cleaning tip No18 Heel marks on wooden floors
• Cleaning tip No17 Washing machines
• Cleaning tip No9  Grout cleaning

Please note that I have produced these cleaning tips in good faith and has such will take no responsibility for any failure or damage that may be caused or attributed by the use of any of the tips given.

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Robin Harrison is the managing Director of Dolly Char (UK) Ltd. Dolly Char (UK) Ltd is one of the fastest growing domestic cleaning franchise companies in the UK today giving people the opportunity to work from the comfort of their own home.

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When it comes to selling their products businesses are increasingly using more and more eye catching marketing sales gimmicks to help promote and sell their goods. A few of the many different sales gimmicks on offer are below.

Supermarkets in particular are famous for the BOGOF, buy one get one free promotion that most of them run these days.

Supermarkets also often have gimmicks such as receive 40% extra free, spend £50 minimum and get 4p off a litre of petrol at their filling station.

Supermarkets often have gimmicky reward schemes like saving stamps and reward vouchers that can be collected and then traded in to receive discounts.

Club books are renown for buy now pay nothing for six months or even a year and then take 20 weeks to pay using interest free credit.

Double glazing companies often use a gimmick such as buy the upstairs windows and get the down stairs free.

Cars can often be purchased brand new and driven away from the show room for as little as £99.

House builders often have various gimmicks like we will pay your first three months mortgage, they will carpet out your new house, cash back schemes are also getting very popular, they will pay your stamp duty or take your present property as part exchange.

Another famous gimmick is if you find the same item cheaper else where within usually a few days then they will offer a refund of double the difference.

There are of course many more marketing sales gimmicks out there, maybe you could add a few of your own and see how many we can come up with.

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Robin Harrison is the managing Director of Dolly Char (UK) Ltd. Dolly Char (UK) Ltd is one of the fastest growing domestic cleaning franchise companies in the UK today giving people the opportunity to work from the comfort of their own home.

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