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Does anyone know a good CRM/Database solution tailored for a home/office cleaning company?
I am looking for some CRM style software that can be used to help manage the operations of a relatively small cleaning firm. I have come across several corporate and open source applications that have way too many features, which require a steep learning curve and lots of initial configuration. I am hoping that there has already been a CRM/Database already tailored to the general requirements of a home and office cleaning company. Some of the basic features that would be useful are: Keep a record of all correspondence with customers. Keep track of Cleaner working patterns (i.e. Cleaner X can work on Tuesdays, Cleaner Y can only cover certain areas, etc). Record if payments have been received for work carried out. Manage customers and cleaning staff diary’s. i.e. ability to schedule in cleans and assign cleaners to carry out the work. Ideally it would be able to be a hosted online system, rather than requiring a locally hosted server, but anything would be good. If anyone has come across a system like this or can point me in the right direction, that would be great. Thanks!!

That would be a great tool! I've search my resources and been unable to find anything for you, either free or fee based. Sorry. Could be a terrific new 'side' for you, if you could develop it.

Is there any fee/affordable easy-to-use It software that allows me to manage/publish data info into a website?
It has to run on Windows, and be able to be updated from the web. I want to publish a website with restaurant listings with pix and info, and maybe votes. I have fairly good knowledge of HTML, and graphic editing, but i fail miserabily in the database programming part of it. My host server runs on UNIX, so i preferably would like something PHP/MySQL related, but are open to other productive solutions. I know Dreamweaver, but don't find it easy to work with for creating database tables.

Try Joomla, it is a content management system(CMS) based on php and mysql. It has a simple templating system, so if you know css/html it should be easy to create the look how you want it, if not, there are thousands of templates available. It has a web-based admin backend, so is really quick and easy to update. There are hundreds of components you can plug in such as listings, calenders, maps and so on. There is a massive user base with really good forums, if you get stuck you normally get answered within a couple of hours. Best of all, it is open source and free.

Why can't liberal talk radio succeed?
Why can't liberal talk radio succeed? ________________________________________ Talk radio is not news, per se, but mostly opinion. Talk-show radio personalities are not journalists in the classic sense of the word. They are commentators who entertain. If the audience doesn't like the commentary and the way it's presented, the show gets canceled. Rush Limbaugh has a brilliant mind and expresses his opinion in an entertaining way. His vast audience sticks with him because they generally agree with his analysis of the news. Al Franken is a comedian, not a journalist. He moved from comedy shows to talk radio because his material didn't appeal to a wide enough audience. But Franken failed as a talk-show host because his material wasn't interesting, and his arguments weren't convincing to that audience, either. Other liberal talk-radio hosts may be entertaining, but, apparently, their opinions aren't convincing. Opinions are funny things. We seek out those that fit our own core values. We tend to filter out opinions that don't confirm our core values. It's similar to the way we choose our friends – because we share common values. The fact liberal talk radio can't find an audience isn't because there's no choice – it's because there is a choice. We should form our opinions based on raw information. That's the difference between talk radio and hard news. Hard news should be based on facts, not conjecture. If a person can find enough raw facts, he can make an informed opinion. That's why the Founding Fathers created a free press. So that, given the unvarnished information, citizens can make informed opinions. Talk radio usually attracts listeners after they've already formed their opinions. It's obvious proponents of the Fairness Doctrine believe the average American is too stupid to form a correct opinion in a free marketplace of ideas. And it's also apparent they feel the correct opinion is the one they hold. After all, the efforts of the "thought police" to shut down conservative talk radio is all in your best interest. So turn off the radio and leave the thinking to them. It's hardly a secret that the majority of the mainstream press has a liberal bias. The only ones who would claim otherwise are the liberals who make up the majority of the mainstream press – and the liberals in Congress who demand a legislative "fix" to correct the "imbalance" in talk radio. It's particularly significant that, despite the left-leaning mainstream media, even in cities like New York and Chicago, liberal talk radio still can't find an audience. The hypocrisy of the left in demanding government control of public opinion, even as it ignores mainstream media's non-stop liberal propaganda that favors them, is staggering. Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany in 1933 following a free and open democratic election that gave the Nazis a majority in 1932. What followed were gradual steps toward state supremacy, with each step predicated by some kind of managed "crisis." The formula used to impose totalitarianism generally follows a three-stage process. It was the creation of the early 19th century German philosopher George Hegel. Called the "Hegelian Dialectic," it's divided into three parts: thesis, antithesis and synthesis. This was a central doctrine used by Karl Marx and his communist disciples. The thesis is applied when a government wants to implement a policy that faces widespread popular opposition. To accomplish this – the antithesis – the government uses the media to invent a problem or crisis that drives the people to embrace the unpopular policy as the only solution to the crisis. The synthesis is that the population will be more afraid of the crisis than the solution they did not want. They are then manipulated to demand the policy changes they previously opposed. A classic example of Hegel's dialectic in action is gun control. To bring about a government ban on certain weapons, repeatedly showcase all criminal use of guns until the problem appears to have reached crisis proportions. Suppress all incidences in which the private ownership of guns prevented or stopped crimes. Eventually, the public will accept the premise that "guns are the cause of crime," and soon, the population will be disarmed by popular demand. Does it work? What do you think? What if even one of the professors in the Virginia Tech massacre had possessed a gun? Instead, the VT massacre provides an object lesson in what can happen when we let the Federal Thought Police do our thinking for us.

Liberals read.