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Any business premises whether it be an office, a factory or a warehouse needs to be cleaned. Apart from the health and safety reasons, having a clean working environment is beneficial for your employees and your visiting customers.

For most business owners cleaning is not at the top of their skills, however, it is certainly in their best interests to know enough to ensure their business premises are cleaned effectively. To aid that, here are ten best practices for cleaning business premises, shared to us by leaders in the commercial cleaning industry.

Create A Planned Cleaning Schedule: If your cleaning is done by following a pre-planned schedule it is bound to be more effective. This way, nothing is missed and areas that need cleaning more often take priority over those which only need cleaning every month.

Increase The Frequency Of Your Cleaning: Notwithstanding your planned cleaning, if you have the resources you should clean your business premises more frequently. In particular, areas, where you have visitors or high foot traffic, should be cleaned more often.

Ensure Main Contact Points Are Given Priority: By main contact points we are talking about those which are touched frequently throughout the day and by multiple people. Examples include door handles, lift buttons, stair handrails, light switches, and toilet flush handles.

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Whenever a business relocates, it is undoubtedly hoping that benefits will accrue. Whether it be the expansion of the business by moving to larger premises or an office with modern facilities improving productivity, these are but two of the many advantages of office relocations.

Of course, it is not all plain sailing as there is plenty to organise including hiring a removalist company, keeping staff informed and communicating with suppliers and customers. There is also the planning of the move which includes arranging for office equipment and furniture to be moved, as well possibly having to order some anew.

This presents you with a fantastic opportunity to declutter your office so that when your staff arrive for work in the new offices, they do so in an environment where there are no piles of paperwork, broken furniture, unused stationery, or malfunctioning equipment. Decluttering also makes the entire relocation process easier. To explain further, here are ten tips to help declutter your office if you are relocating.

Assess What You Need In Your New Office: The first tip is to assess your new offices and how they will function, and then determine what quantity of office furniture and equipment you will require and what specific items will be needed.

Carry Out An Inventory Of What You Already Have: Next you should ascertain what you already have. Furniture and equipment should be split into categories relating to how new they are, they still work, they are damaged, and so on.

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Whilst the vast majority of removalists will be experts at helping families move homes and businesses move to new offices, there are many for whom online marketing is not something for which they are specialists. In truth, this could apply to any business sector. However, the problem for a removalists business that is not utilising online marketing, is that their competitors who are using it, have a huge advantage in obtaining new leads and prospective clients.

Some of the issues that get raised frequently when inter state removalists are discussing online marketing are that there seem to be dozens of different ways to market online, and they do not know which ones they should be focussing on. In answering, there are indeed lots of online marketing channels, however, there is no need to master them all, and we also would not advise any removalists to attempt to market their business in a dozen different ways all at once anyway.

Our advice is to focus on and master a few core online marketing strategies. In doing so, not only is it much easier to implement, monitor and control, but it also allows a marketing budget to be used more efficiently, rather than something akin to throwing mud at a wall and seeing how much of it sticks. So, to get you started, here are just 5 key online marketing tactics we recommend.

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