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4 Reasons Why You Need Commercial Window Cleaning

Keeping your business premises clean is important for your image, for your customers and also for your staff. Keeping your windows in pristine condition should be part of every businesses cleaning regime but is often overlooked. We’ve listed top 4 reasons why commercial window cleaning is so important for every business.

How you keep your business premises will reflect on the way others see you

How your business projects to customers and staff will determine how they feel and interact with your business. If your business is dirty, unclean or messy, this sends a negative message. Your windows are what people first see when approaching your office. This first look into your premises should be positive and reflect your business values.

A clean environment is always better to work in. Staff will feel proud of where they work and studies have shown that staff are more productive in a clean environment. If the windows are dirty and hard to see through, it can be off putting for staff and customers alike.

This is a job for the professionals

Office window cleaning is no easy task. It is not something you want people to try to attempt if they don’t know what they are doing or don’t have the right tools. The people who clean the windows of buildings that are many stories high, have professional training to learn how to do this effectively and safely. They also use the right cleaning products and tools to leave windows looking clean and sparkling.

Windows and glass surfaces are usually large and often the size of whole walls in many office buildings. It is important to get professionals in who know how to clean them in the most effective and safe way.

Stand out from the rest and make your building sparkle

Let’s face it. It is often the case in business that people do judge a book by its cover. You want your business premises to stand out and sparkle, not look dull and grubby. Clean windows make a big difference to how your business looks from the outside as well as the inside.

By employing a cleaning company that also offer an office window cleaning service, you will ensure that every facet of your workplace will look it very best.

Clean windows look better and ensure the optimal amount of natural light enters your office

During the day it is always important to optimise as much natural light in an office space as possible. If your windows are covered in dirt from rain or have been left unwashed for months, your windows will not be able to let the optimal amount of natural light in.

Secondly, clean windows simply look better from the inside and out. Make your office windows a feature in your business space by keeping them clean.

Commercial window cleaning is something every business should have to make sure their business is not only clean, but sparkles from the inside …

Office Cleaning for Set Up and Long Term Sanitation

A business’s offices are critical to the performance of much of its image and branding presentation. It is the space that they conduct their sales and acquisitions. It is the space where they present their products or services. It is the space where they conduct their business’s integral customer service. So to present themselves and their product or service well, regular performance of office cleaning is important to sanitation for employee safety and a clean polished appearance for the attraction of their clients. Yet, different companies are at different stages so they require different amounts of office cleaning throughout the life of the business.

First, before a business can even start up it has to undergo renovation and cleaning. Everything from the air/ventilation system and paint application to the flooring and equipment has to be updated when opening a new office location. After all of that work, the space has to have a polished appearance for its final presentation to the community that the business intends to serve. So if the office is within a building then it can be cleaned by the buildings contracted janitorial services on a regular basis. But if it is a standalone store front then the management can hire a maid service company to take care of the odds and ends of removing spilled paint, cleaning windows and surfaces to pristine glory and sanitizing the washrooms so that the employees and clients will be comfortable. The services required are only as specific as management outlines. If the company is joining the fold of the other offices in the building then they can simply request the same care for their space. However, if certain rooms are not to be cleaned or sensitive material needs to be handled with care or delicate equipment avoided then those specific instructions will guide the maid or janitorial services that will be performed within that office.

After the initial cleaning and set up and office is open for regular business and will be in needing regular cleaning thereafter. Depending upon the type of business, office cleaning can be required daily or only several times a week in order to meet building code or in order to create or deliver the product or service that they intend. Office cleaning can include clean-up for the equipment, paper waste, the staff kitchenette, the flooring and all glass surfaces in order to keep the room(s) clear of a great majority of germs and bacteria that can hinder productivity or customer safety. Office cleaning is just as important as the services that they provide to the people they serve.…

Mutual Funds Tutorial

There have probably been enough books written on how to compare mutual funds to fill up Kennedy Airport, but the basic principles can be written on the back of an envelope. Yet these are principles only a fraction of investors know or follow.

Principal Number One is to know what this fund is really costing you. Studies have shown again and again that most investors go into a fund – often on the basis of a broker’s advice – without a clue what its costs are.

There are two kinds of costs, loads and operating expenses.

Loads are the commissions you pay your broker when he/she sells you a mutual fund. These can be horrendous, like 5% or more, and your broker may well “forget” to mention the load at all – or may even tell you it’s a “no-load fund” when in fact it carries a big sales charge if you sell within some given number of years. How do you determine for sure if a fund has a load? Read the prospectus before you invest. Or hire a financial advisor on a fee-for-service (not a commission) basis. You should always invest in no-load funds, which historically have performed just as well as load funds (in fact, better, when the load is factored in).

Second, be aware of the operating expenses of your fund. This means marketing expenses, salaries, overhead, etc. involved in managing the fund, as well as profit to the fund developers. Again, you have to read the fund’s prospectus to find out what the expenses really are. Look in the expenses section for “Operating Expenses.”

Principle Number Two in making mutual fund investments is to not rely entirely on what nearly everybody relies on in making fund choices, namely historic rate of return. Just looking at a list of funds’ historic performances for the past few years is a terrible way to pick funds. Too many things can affect those performances, and they are too easily manipulated by fund managements. You should always review rates of return – together with volatility – over eight to ten years or more. Assess these rates of return and riskiness (volatility) in light of your own investment goals. And always read at least the first few pages of the fund’s prospectus before investing (no need, however, to wade through the whole thing, say most experts).

Principle Number Three, and last, is to become familiarized with the tax-friendliness of a fund before forking over your money. What does this mean exactly? Some funds produce far more taxable distributions, namely capital gains and dividends, than others. If the fund manager is extremely aggressive about timing the market he/she will buy/sell more actively, resulting in more capital gains distributions for you to pay taxes on each year. Another consideration is dividends. If the funds pays high dividends, higher-tax-bracket investors may be subject to higher taxes.

According to some experts December is the month in which most mutual funds make capital …