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Green
Your Work Area
By Trish Smith
Enjoying an eco-lifestyle
means living greener in all areas of your life. You may
be taking environmentally friendly steps at home, but
are you also doing it at work? People spend almost 90%
of their lives indoors, and for those people who work
inside that equates to about 40 or more hours at your
desk, office or cubicle.
Whether you're a student interning at a major
corporation, a marketing associate making phone calls
all day or an office assistant handling paperwork,
you're going to spend a majority of your time in one
place all day. So don't you want your work space to be
eco-friendly and energy efficient? It can be if you make
some simple changes.
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What is
LEED and Why Should My Cleaning Company Learn More About
It?
By Steve Hanson
Companies and businesses
across the country are becoming more environmentally
conscious and many are starting to adopt LEED standards
and protocols. LEED stands for Leadership in
Environmental Design. The US Green Building Council, a
nonprofit organization, which is working to promote
buildings that are environmentally responsible, launched
the LEED rating system. The overall goal of the program
is to make the places we live in and work at become
healthier environments. There are two classifications
for LEED; one for existing buildings - LEED-EB and one
for new construction - LEED-NC.
As cleaning companies it's no longer enough to just
supply good cleaning services to your customers.
Cleaning companies need to be aware of this growing
trend towards becoming LEED certified. One important
aspect of becoming LEED certified is integrating green
cleaning into a building's overall janitorial services
and practices.
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What's In
a Name?
Have you ever stopped and
thought "Why are There So Many Cleaning Companies"? You
know, there really are not that many. But when you take
into account how many of them do the "This Months Name"
routines then it gives the appearance of Cleaning
Company Overload.
In the cleaning business your name and reputation is
really all that you have. So many cleaning companies
continually change their names to stay in business. I
have noticed that when companies start getting
reputations for lack of and poor service they change
their names. What people have to realize is the name is
not the problem. It is those in the business behind the
company name. Those running the business is the problem.
Same slick salespersons using the same old sales pitches
with New Business Cards. Cash and Dash or Trash and Dash
for Cash are my terms for the attitudes of these
companies.The Names change but the people stay the same.
So the nature of how they do business never changes. But
why should it matter to them? It's just a name. While
you have paid thousands of dollars to fund their Trash n
Dash programs. All it cost them is the price of
purchasing New Business Cards and Letterhead.
A companies name and reputation go hand in hand. At
Century we have been the Same Name Same People for over
18 years. We are proud of our name and how we run our
business. We have the National Companies calling wanting
to Sub Contract with us so they can get the benefits of
a Good Companies Name. My response is sorry but Century
does not and will never do Sub work. One major reason is
we do not want our Name Associated with companies that
will leave as much dirt on our name as they leave in
your offices every night. I will never jeopardize the
Century name for any amount of money. We want people to
think of Quality, Honesty, Integrity, Longevity when
they hear the Century Name. I have worked to long and
hard to build a good reputation only to allow someone
else to damage our good name. Today, Tomorrow, and
Forever we will be Century.
At Century we do very little advertising. Our customers
are the best advertising we have. They refer us to
business associates and friends. We have even had
customers go to meetings and refer us to their
competitors. If you look around your office and feel as
if you could "Not" refer your current cleaners to
someone you know. Then you need to contact us today.The
only name change in our future is changing the name of
your cleaning company to Century. Give us a call and
let's talk about putting Century to work for you.
Mike Underwood
Owner for 18 Years and counting.
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