How to be your Pool Company's Favorite Customer
How to be your Pool Company's Favorite CustomerBy taking advantage of a few easy swimming pool maintenance tips, you can easily make yourself the most profitable customer your local pool business has ever seen.1. Don't clean your pool! A dirty pool is an expensive pool (expensive for you, profitable for your local pool business). The more you let your pool go, the more it will cost to get things back together again. Do you see leaves in there? By all means, let them sit. Are random foreign objects floating around in your pool? Sure, let them stay.
Anything that doesn't belong in the pool, it shouldn't cause any problems, right? Likewise, it's a waste of time to be brushing your pool? especially the dead spots where algae is likely to grow. Your pool company will love you, knowing that you'll need to be buying algaecide, shock, and possibly other products to clean up a mess. Your pool business would love for you to let your pool go.2. Never empty your skimmer or pump baskets. Those baskets are meant to permanently store all the debris that they catch.
That's what baskets are for, right? Storage! It would be a far greater hassle to empty that skimmer basket every few days, as opposed to letting it break and having to buy a new one (at $15 a pop) with great regularity. Not only that, but it's good for your pool to be choking on the water circulation. Forcing your pump to work harder only makes it stronger, right? No pain, no gain. When your skimmer basket breaks, letting debris get through, let that same junk sit in your pump basket for a while. You can break two baskets with only one load of debris! After your pump basket breaks, that's when the real excitement begins.
You'll have all sorts of chunks flying through the rest of the pump, and being forced into the filter. Hoorah! All the equipment is getting some exercise now! Hopefully something will break, which will further ingratiate you with your favorite pool place. After all, cleaning out those baskets is far more trouble than it's worth, right?3. If you see algae, brush it and hope it goes away. It's a well-known fact that scrubbing algae kills it, as opposed to the nonsense of using concentrated chlorine on it.
After all, even though algae was actually growing in the pool, there still should be enough chlorine in the pool to kill that stuff. The idea of actually shocking the pool wouldn't make any sense then, would it? By all means, wipe away the algae and then continue on your merry way. It's not like it will come back, right? Your pool company would much rather you waited until your algae becomes a significant problem, and growing everywhere before you take an interest in treating it. So do your pool business a favor and wait until there's algae everywhere before you decide to do anything about it.4. Buy all your chemicals in as small amount as humanly possible.
If you need some shock or chlorine sticks, make sure you get them in the smallest container available. You want to avoid those larger containers like the plague. Not only are those larger containers of the dreaded economical type, and not only do they cost you less per pound, but they will keep you from being required to regularly visit your favorite pool business. Keep in mind, these tips are only useful if you want to be as financially supportive as possible to your local pool company. If you'd rather save money, or spend it on something other than your pool, you would do best to ignore all this advice, or even do the opposite..
Michael Dinger has worked in a pool supply business and can easily recall the silliness actual pool owners have done.For more free information and tips on swimming pool maintenance please visit http://wwww.keepyourpoolclean.comOrganize (and Decorate) Your Home on a Budget with Baskets
What's an item that can help you organize every room in your home, helps create the appearance that you're a tidy housekeeper (even if you're not), and perks up your decorating scheme?Need another hint?It comes in all shapes, sizes, colors and materials and can be found in many local retail stores, including craft stores and discount retailers, and at flea markets and craft shows and well basically it's a universal item found all over the world. You probably have one right now in your home.It's a basket! So the next time someone gives you one filled with anything from sweets to colognes, don't discard it once you've used what's in it. Once the items are gone, the basket's job has only just begun. Read onward to find out how to use this wonderful item in every room in your house. For instance, in the kitchen, you can use hanging wall pocket baskets, which have flat backs, to store dry sponges and scrubbers as well as pot holders, oven mitts, dry dish rags and spare kitchen hand towels.And...
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SEND.COM Launches Corporate Information Web Site
PRINCETON, N.J.(ContentDesk) November 18 2003-- Send.com, an online superstore, announced today the launch of its new corporate information web site at http://press.send.com.
Designed as a media communications resource, press.send.com provides investors, media representatives, and consumers with high-level, comprehensive company information."Our goal in creating the new site was to provide a medium through which we could tell our distinctive corporate story", explains Ranjan Wijesinghe, founder of Send.com. "It will serve as a marketing tool, as well as a resource that will provide regularly updated corporate information, links to Send.com's broad network of sites, and more."
The new corporate web site will include a company overview, corporate fact sheet, corporate officer information, press release archive, a description of each site within the Send.com network, and a gift-giving guide.
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Extreme Makeover Increases Gift Basket Studio Profits
Extreme makeovers are a cultural phenomena that have brought about amazing transformations in homes, lives and looks. Now gift basket design studios are the new focus of extreme makeovers. The frenzy of creating gift baskets under tight deadlines turns the average studio into a war zone rather than a work zone. A new photo video, entitled "Gift Basket Design Studio Extreme Makeover," shows gift basket designers and retailers the right way to create and keep an organized, efficient workspace."Gift basket designers get absorbed in creating and shipping designs, but seldom stop to keep their studios in working order," says Flora Brown, space issues expert and owner of Gift Basket Business World. "Designers who take time to organize their workspace can increase their profits by 50%."Brown is co-author of the Extreme Makeover video, available at http://www.GiftBasketBusinessWorld.com.
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Munchie Gifts Adds Special Dietary Needs Gifts Department
(ContentDesk) November 20, 2004 -- Sugar free products are offered for persons with high blood sugar or diabetes, gluten free cookies for persons with Celiac Disease as well as all natural products for those who simply want to enjoy healthy munchies. Gluten free offerings for those with Celiac Disease include gourmet cheesecake and freshly baked cookies. Scrumptious cheesecake is also offered in a wide choice of sugar free flavors and and baked to order cookies are available in sugar free and all natural as well as gluten free. All the ingredients in the All Natural Gourmet Cookie line are Natural and/or Organic. Great care has been taken to provide the finest Natural products without the marketing hype.
Ingredients are All Natural, No Preservatives" and No Hydrogenated or Partially Hydrogenated Oils. Sugar-Free/Lower Carbohydrate Gourmet cookies offered in tins and gift baskets have the same ingredients as the All Natural Gourmet line except for the following differences: ? Sugar...
Munchie Gifts Adds Special Dietary Needs Gifts Department
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