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Cleaning Up3 Businesses that will sweep you away

ByJohanna S. Billings

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With all we have to do in the '90s, who has time to clean? If you do, get out your mops and brooms and clean up on opportunity. Doing the jobs that others don't want to do, or don't have time to do, offers buckets of profit. The ingredients for success are initiative and flexibility, say the owners of the following threecleaning businesses.

Commercial Cleaning/Landscaping

Most people don't think that landscaping qualifies as cleaning. But if you're Christine Marshall and Althea Seeds, it does.

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