2015

  • 3 Tips For Turning Your Storage Unit Into An Office

    If you are a full-time freelancer or if you occasionally work from home, you may find that you need a personal office. However, if you live in an apartment or small house you may not have the square footage to add a home office to your living space. Renting a storage unit can be an ideal way to provide yourself with private office space that you intend to use occasionally. However, it is important to plan your self-storage office carefully to make sure that it works for you.
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  • Tips To Help You Remove Snow From Your Gravel Driveway

    When you have a driveway paved with asphalt or concrete, clearing snowfall from its surface is simple. You can scrape the snow with a shovel or plow, or blow it with a snow blower. But when all or any part of your driveway is covered in gravel, these methods do not work as well. The gravel on your driveway can get scraped up with a shovel or plow, displacing a large part of your paving material.
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  • Best Practices For Pest Control In Your Storage Facility

    As the manager of a storage facility, one of the things that you need to be aware of is your risk of pest infestation. The last thing you need is to find out that your storage units have become home to insects or rodents. The best way to protect your property from pest infestations of any kind is through proactive prevention. Here are a few tips to help you keep pests at bay on your property or deal with a current infestation.
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  • How Can You Afford Fertility Treatments?

    If you and your partner have been struggling for years to successfully conceive and bear a child, you may be dismayed at what can seem like two equally negative options -- mortgaging your future to pay for expensive fertility treatments with an uncertain outcome, or heartbreak each month as you continue to have trouble conceiving naturally. Are there any ways to help defray the costs of fertility treatments to make them more affordable?
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  • 2 Things Every Business Owner Should Ask Their Cardboard Box Manufacturer

    When you own a business, you might be more concerned about profit margins and customer counts than you are about the quality of your shipping containers. However, if you care about improving customer service and limiting waste, you should sit down with your cardboard box manufacturer to have a good talk. Here are two things every business owner should ask their cardboard box manufacturer and why: 1: "Will those boxes be able to endure the rigors of transport?
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  • What Makes A Label Successful?

    So you've started a business. Maybe you've created an amazing microbrew, or maybe you're selling homemade salsa at the farmer's market. Whatever you've got going on, chances are good that you'll find your sales go up with a well designed label. What does that look like? That's what you'll learn here, so read on! Good Branding is Consistent A good label communicates something to your customers. It tells them who you are, and it gives them a touch point, a brand name they can trust.
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  • 3 Tips For Making Your Medical Answering Service Work For You

    When you first started out in private medical practice, all you really needed was one secretary to answer the phone. But as you gain patients and expand your practice, you'll quickly find out that's not quite enough. Your patients will need to reach you – sometimes after hours or when you're otherwise engaged – and you'll eventually find that you need more help to keep up with the call volume. That's where an answering service can really come in handy.
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  • 5 Ways New Parents Can Get Good Use Out Of A Storage Unit

    Preparing for a new baby comes with a lot of adjustments and life changes. Making room for the new body in the home is harder than you think. Even though there is a little body, there are a lot of items that come along with it. To help ease the transition, you can get a lot of use out of a self storage unit. Self storage units provide plenty of space to temporarily relocate items until they are ready to move back into the home.
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  • Assisted Living: Helping A Senior Loved One Cope With Depression

    Assisted living senior care is an increasingly popular way for seniors to keep some of their independence and privacy when their health becomes a daily issue. Thousands of people now live in specialist facilities, but this lifestyle can bring new health challenges, including problems with anxiety and depression. If your loved one now lives in an assisted living facility, learn more about the challenges that depression can bring, and find out how you can help him or her cope with the symptoms of this debilitating condition.
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  • Pinhole Leaks In Copper Water Pipes: Their Causes And How To Repair Them

    Copper is considered by many to be a material of choice for water pipes, as it has several strong, positive characteristics: it is easy to work with, resists rust and has natural antibacterial qualities. Because of this, copper is the predominant material used for water pipes in homes and businesses in the United States for the past several decades. However, copper does possess a disadvantage that has proven to be frustrating—it is vulnerable to pinhole leaks that are capable of causing significant damage.
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