Dorothy's 4 Secrets to Magnetizing Success

Today's TV sucks! It's nothing but crapola and if you watch it you'll lower your IQ and get dumber.

With that said, as I was channel surfing for some sports over the weekend I came across the classic movie "The Wizard of OZ". It's been a long time since I sat and watched it from beginning to end since I don't usually sit in front of the idiot box for more than an hour or so unless golf is on.

Something unusual happened, I was drawn to pause on the channel and say out loud "This is a great movie." My son was in the room with me and he immediately stopped imagining he was playing baseball, walked over to the couch, leaned against me, and stared at the TV. We were both hooked with curiosity.

I don't like him to watch TV, it creates ADD and ADHD, especially at his age, but The Wizard of OZ is a classic movie so I made an exception. Don't forget it has stood the test of time, it was made in 1939 and still makes a fortune in sales today.

I picked him up and sat him on my lap so we could we watch together. We were both mesmerized until the first commercial. Then when the commercial hit, we snapped out of it, ran around the living room hitting and pitching baseballs until the movie came back on.

They made a tremendous movie and I recognized how many lessons they "subliminally" put into each scene. I know they will help you so here is what we learned from Dorothy's character alone.

1. Set goals. What was hers? To get home.

Like most people, this can be too much and overwhelming and she had no clue where to start. Herein lies secret #2.

2. Ask for help.

She asked and she received. Her teacher, coach, mentor Glinda the "Good Witch of the North" gave her some sage advice. Here's secret #3.

3. "If you don't know where to start, I guess the best place would be to start at the beginning."

Simple and profound. In today's all play, no work, get rich quick society we can easily forget to start at the beginning. Without starting at the beginning we are gonna crash and burn.

Now she knows where she wants to go and where to start the next question is how do I get there? Ahhhh, Secret #4.

4. Just follow the yellow brick road.

There is always a path you can take. Sometimes you just don't see it or recognize that you're already on it.

How easy will your life be when you apply these four life altering secrets? That's up to you. In case you missed them here they are again.

1. Have a goal
2. Ask for help
3. Start at the beginning
4. Follow a path someone has already laid down for you.

Apply these secrets and you'll definitely get to the Emerald City and your job.

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P.P.S. If you need some help recognizing your yellow brick road, email me at Nolan@nolanberentis.com for your free 15 minute consultation.

Nolan Richard Berentis

Cleaning Business Pricing Guide - Estimating and Quoting For Success

When it comes to pricing a residential or commercial cleaning job it is important to hit the mark accurately with a fair price. In this article we will look at a method for accurately estimating prices for cleaning jobs and offer some tips for quoting prices to customers.

Quoting a price too low means leaving money on the table and wasting an opportunity to profit. By offering to clean at a price level that is barely profitable you will be damaging the cleaning industry overall in your area and you will find it difficult to raise prices to a profitable level in the future. Trying to win customers by pricing low is clearly a bad strategy for getting started in the cleaning business.

Quoting too high means that you will often be declined by customers and may miss out on jobs unless your customers perceive that they will be getting above average quality services from you. Having an established brand that your prospects are familiar with is one way to be able to price higher than the market average. The other way is by offering truly unique services or having a highly effective sales strategy.

The best way to estimate a price is to firstly come up with an approximation of how long it will take to complete the job. Make a thorough inspection of the building in question, break the job down into the various tasks and then calculate the total time that it will take you or one of your workers to complete.

The next step is to take your time estimation and multiply it by a fair hourly rate to calculate the total labor cost for the job. Don't forget to include traveling time.

A small allowance can then be added on for job related expenses such as cleaning products, transport costs and equipment expenses.

You should then add on another small allowance that can be put towards your monthly fixed costs such as rent, insurance and marketing costs. You can come up with a suitable figure by taking your total monthly overheads and dividing this by the average number of cleaning jobs that you do and month.

You will then have arrived at a figure that represents your total costs for the job. Finally, you can add on a suitable amount of profit and then you will have the total quote amount that you can put forward to the client.

When you are starting out you can compare your quotes to what your competitors would charge for a similar job to make sure that you are reasonably close to fair value for your services.

Don't forget that the first time you do a cleaning job you will probably spend a lot longer then you will on subsequent visits. After you have cleaned the property once you will then have it in reasonable condition and you will be familiar with it. Many cleaning business operators charge an additional fee for the first visit and you can consider doing so on a case-by-case basis, depending on the state of the property in question.

If you are pricing by the hour you should never let your customer know this. If you have quoted them for a three-hour job and they catch you leaving after two hours, then they may feel cheated. Quote a price for completing the job rather than an hourly rate if you can get away with it.

Price estimation in the cleaning business, or any service business for that matter takes time and skill to get right. Successful cleaning business operators start off with a good pricing system and then try to constantly perfect this system over time.

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Movie 300 - Box Office Success

When the movie 300 hit commercials in the forms of previews, there was a huge stir in many communities. The movie looked like it could be the next classic war film- with its stunning visuals and unique story.

The movie was released this March, and made an estimated $71 million- the highest of any movie for the month of March. Not bad for a movie made on a $65 million dollar budget. And budgets are important in this day and age.

The movie tells the story of the famed Spartan war, where 300 battle-hearty soldiers took on foes that outnumbered them in infinite numbers. The classic history lesson has a big moral behind the story- with plenty of gore and action to make it interesting.

The marketing was also a key factor to its success. The movie was marketing to Comic-Con, a comic convention. The popular website Myspace also endorsed the ads on its website for an ad campaign. It had stunning visuals in previews, and literally became a success before it came out.

To those who haven't seen it, many critics have said great things about it. It is highly ranked among many critics, and is considered a must-see for any who are interested in epics, wars, or historical movies. (While the movie isn't exactly accurate historically, it follows a basic timeline of the events). If you think that such advertising has little impact on you, just consider why it is YOU will be watching it.

A master coup for modern day advertising.

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