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Why Faith-Based Franchises Are a Growing Trend in the Cleaning Industry

In the cleaning industry, there has been a change taking place for years; the rise of faith-centered franchises has caught the interest of many individuals. This is not merely a temporary trend but rather signifies a profound link between beliefs and business practices that is gaining traction among consumers who are seeking alignment with their values in commercial ventures.

Alignment of Values

Faith-based franchises offer a chance to align work with values by connecting beliefs with professional pursuits for individuals looking to infuse their moral principles into their careers. They highlight traits like honesty and community involvement that resonate with those who value such principles in everyday life.

Community Connection

Faith-based franchises often create a community connection by participating in local organizations and supporting charitable initiatives. This focus on community engagement helps foster a feeling of belonging and meaning for both franchise owners and customers. It also gives franchisees the opportunity to establish connections within their communities, solidifying their business reputation and influence.

Supportive Environment

Faith-based franchise operations frequently foster an encouraging atmosphere for their participants. The individuals who invest in these franchises gain from a community of individuals with shared beliefs and objectives. This network fosters enhanced cooperation among members and promotes creativity and adaptability. Being aware that fellow members embrace beliefs offers reassurance and drive, which play a role in the prosperity of the franchise.

Ethical Leadership

Leadership in franchises based on faith often highlights the importance of making ethical decisions, which creates a positive atmosphere throughout the organization and motivates franchisees to make integrity a central focus in their operations. The practice of ethical leadership can build trust with both customers and employees, resulting in better relationships and customer loyalty. This trust can give businesses an edge and aid in their expansion in the market.

Market Demand

With the increasing awareness among consumers about where their money goes, the interest in businesses has surged in recent times. Faith-based franchises cater to this growing demand by integrating principles into their operations. Customers value the assurance that their purchases contribute to businesses that actively give back to society and uphold values. This shared alignment with consumer beliefs can lead to business growth and foster lasting brand loyalty.

Training and Development

Franchise opportunities frequently offer in-depth training programs that cover a range of skills for career advancement purposes. The training typically includes guidance on leadership qualities, ethical decision-making, and involvement in the community. This rounded training approach provides franchisees with abilities that go beyond running a business conventionally. It helps them succeed not only in their endeavors but also in personal growth aspects of life.

Sustainability Practices

Numerous franchises rooted in faith strongly emphasize sustainability as they aim to manage resources and uphold values at their core values system. This emphasis not only resonates with aware consumers but also reflects their commitment to broader ethical ideals. Franchise owners are frequently urged to incorporate approaches in their day-to-day operations by embracing eco-friendly practices that minimize waste and support environmental initiatives. These strategies can result in cost benefits for the franchisees and build a favorable image among customers who prioritize environmentally conscious businesses.

Challenges and Opportunities

Faith-based franchises come with a range of advantages. They also encounter obstacles to overcome in their operations and growth strategies, which intertwine religious values with business practices effectively and ethically while meeting customer needs and evolving market demands for sustained success and credibility in the industry.

Future Outlook

The outlook seems bright for cleaning franchises rooted in faith-based principles within the industry as individuals increasingly look for work that reflects their values and beliefs. With a focus on ethical leadership and sustainable practices, while actively engaging with the community, these franchises are likely to see growth and success amidst competition. By upholding their core values and mission, these franchises can draw in customers and franchisees who are aligned with their commitment to making a positive impact in the world.

Conclusion

Faith-based franchises are rapidly developing in the cleaning sector due to a growing interest in establishing workplaces that reflect values and beliefs instead of just pursuing profit alone. These franchises provide chances for development and satisfaction by aligning one’s faith with professional pursuits. By promoting community engagement and emphasizing leadership while prioritizing sustainability practices, faith-based franchises distinguish themselves from others in the industry. As this trend progresses and transforms over time, there is the potential for it to revolutionize the sector by fostering a values-driven marketplace.

Black magic or luck? Secrets of winning at roulette on Halloween

Can you conjure the spirits this Halloween to help you win a little more at roulette? Are you willing to dabble in the Necronomicon for a chance to win wealth even when the risk is summoning a daemon? Well, as it turns out black magic isn’t real, as extensive scientific evidence has suggested.

But does this mean that you couldn’t still rely on some superstition or another to boost your chances? Well, it depends – if you were to calm your nerves using “black magic,” then it would be acceptable. However, as Roulette77, a specialist roulette site likes to say, there is nothing better than hard knowledge of the game to help you win. Let’s see what this means.

Things that can help you win before trying black magic

Alright, we will only talk about black magic as long as we agree that it doesn’t exist. Good luck and fortune are random events, as are the wins of a roulette wheel! This means that there is no real way that you can influence your chances of success, other than proper strategies that have been time-tested and studied mathematically. Here are couple of them:

Using a betting strategy Forget black magic and think – betting strategy! Strategies are tested ways to try and win a little more. 
Don’t bet on risky selections Black magic purports that it can help you win more but not betting on the riskiest strategies is actually what does the trick! 
Take it easy No matter how strongly you feel about a game, taking it easy is what really matters. 
Forget superstitions Sorry black magic, you are out. It’s important to focus on the things that can help you win in the first place and superstitions aren’t those! 

 

Right, so black magic may sound tempting, but you are bound to have a much better luck by simply understanding roulette odds. It may not be magic, but it will give you a very practical understanding of how a game of roulette works, which usually boils down to the following:

  • The value of a bet
  • The bet size
  • The house edge & RTP

These criteria will make it very easy for you to track the action at a roulette table and put any use of black magic out of your mind at once!

Why people believe that black magic can help them win at Halloween?

It’s just the season. Superstitions are a part of human nature and there is no shame in that. However, it’s important to understand that superstitions are not really real – they are sometimes grounded in reality, though, as they try to explain strange natural phenomena that are not always easily comprehended. This is just as well.

The same goes for roulette and black magic – some people simply think that because Halloween is a night of scary things, then there certainly must be a way to secure a favor from the dark forces for something in exchange (your soul perhaps?) and make sure that you end up winning a little more all told. 

Players will be very happy to know that they have the opportunity to boost their odds of success by seeking “dark favor” with whatever supernatural creature is responsible for granting those. However, the sobering reality is that there is really no evidence to suggest that black magic is real, and you cannot therefore expect to win more during Halloween. 

But some people still do – this is okay. If it helps you to dabble in superstitions to calm your nerves and enjoy yourself a little more. Yet, if you are really looking to boost your chances, focus on strategies, understanding the odds, and picking the best version of the game! 

Roulette is the devil’s plaything after all

Right, so you may have not known that, but the sum total of the numbers of roulette are actually tallied up to 666 – the devil’s number! Given that knowledge and interesting factoid, it’s hard to shake off the feeling that there may be black magic involved after all (there isn’t), yet the superstition is definitely reinforced by this knowledge, and it can get more people to believe in it.

Maybe there are some things you can look up online to secure the dark one’s favor? There really aren’t. All in all, roulette is a massively fun game, and you hardly need to add any more excitement to it by conjuring evil spirits and demons. Instead, you can focus on having fun right at the table or online.

Are you keen to win a little more or perhaps to mitigate potential losses? You can still do by following a great strategy – not from the Necronomicon, but from some of the best mathematicians in the human world!

Fashion Club Enlists Jay Som for New Song ‘Ghost’

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Fashion Club, the latest subject of our Artist Spotlight series, has teamed up with Jay Som’s Melina Duterte for the new song ‘Ghost’. It arrives ahead of the release of her sophomore album A Love You Cannot Shake on Friday, following ‘Confusion’, the Perfume Genius-assisted ‘Forget’, and ‘Rotten Mind’ featuring Julie Byrne. Check it out below.

In a statement, Pascal Stevenson explained: “This song is me talking to my younger and older selves in those moments and being like, ‘It doesn’t matter. There’s no wasted time.’ Nothing positive is going to come from viewing it like that, and everything has turned out fine and will be fine. It’s kind of an anxiety song as well about how I build things up in my mind to the point where I’m like, ‘I can’t do it.’ Then I do it, and I’m like, ‘Okay, well that was easy.'”

Duterte added: “I feel incredibly lucky to be a part of the new Fashion Club record, I’m a fan of Pascal’s songwriting/production and her ability to weave textures in sounds. We spent an afternoon just hanging and talking about music and eventually finishing what is now my favorite song on her album. :-)”

LCD Soundsystem Premiere New Song ‘X-Ray Eyes’ on NTS Radio

LCD Soundsystem have returned with a new song, ‘X-Ray Eyes’, which premiered today on NTS Radio DJ Anu’s show. According to Anu, the track will be “out soon.” You can listen to the episode here, and the song begins around the 19:40 mark.

Two years ago, LCD Soundsystem released the song ‘New Body Rhumba’ for Noah Baumbach’s White Noise movie, which they then played on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. At the time, it marked the band’s first new music since 2017’s American Dream.

Album Review: Soccer Mommy, ‘Evergreen’

Soccer Mommy makes getting lost sound like a new beginning. On Evergreen, her fourth and most poignant record to date, it sort of literally is: ‘Lost’ is the title of its opening track, and upon its release, Sophie Allison said that it “feels like something new and something old at the same time.” Her lyrics are typically pensive, coming from a place of already being at her wit’s end, where the music’s therapeutic potential feels distant. But the refrain – “Lost in a way that don’t make sense/ Lost in a way that never ends” – easily sticks in your head, the strings instantly tug at your heart, and Allison strums her acoustic guitar like she’s still anticipating her next thought. Soccer Mommy’s music is never totally inert or bleak, but Allison moves through the shadows with the same sensitivity that she’s able to capture flickers of hope. But unlike so many others trading in melancholy singer-songwriter music, Allison won’t trick so much as tease her way towards it: hope has to feel honest and earned. Maybe it’s there, but it’s rarely the destination. Soccer Mommy just colours in the emptiness enough to see a song through, and start again.

‘Lost’ isn’t just about the inevitability of change, but all the possible realities that pass by as a result of it, forcing you to live with the one that never measures up to what you’ve dreamt. The first thing Allison acknowledges she doesn’t know about this person is “what’s in her dreams,” an admission that sets the stage for the album’s fundamental aloneness: to Allison, dreams are a gateway to one’s inner world, and the only dreams she has real access to are her own: “I don’t mind spending time on a lie/ But It’s taking all I have to give/ ‘Cause in my dreams I’m still not free/ I feel those hands around my neck/ Like the truth is killing me,” she confesses on the devastating ‘M’, a distorted guitar solo rendering it more like a nightmare. On her previous album, 2022’s Oneohtrix Point Never-produced Sometimes, Forever, Allison sang about losing herself in a different kind of dream, the kind that’s brought her success but made her “miss feeling like a person.” Here, a dream is simply a version of reality that may not exist but allows you, however briefly or in vain, to forget the very fact of missing someone.

Allison doesn’t detail the profound loss that informs so much of Evergreen, but she understands that it, too, has no end. ‘Changes’, an acoustic ballad she cast aside during the Sometimes, Forever sessions, a record that invited heady electronics, offers a picture of where it leaves her: singing to herself, grappling with the idea of change, drifting into the illusion of forever. You can feel the hurt rushing in with each hit of the snare, even as the production wanders into dream-pop territory; music, to Soccer Mommy, doesn’t feel like catharsis so much as “pressing on the bruise,” to use her expression in ‘Salt in Wound’. In that song and ‘Thinking of You’, being stuck in thought is a mirror, and the only reasonable response, to the way reality fades into memory, where everything is frozen, perhaps, to perfection. But even memory gets tainted by the fallibility of change, of us as humans: “All I have are dust and ashes/ Cupped between my hands / Slipping through my fingers ‘til they’re empty once again,” she realizes on ‘Dreaming of Falling’.

Dreaming – just closing your eyes – she also suggests, is a lot like falling. Optimism, whether cautious or false, is something Soccer Mommy mostly wafts in and out of, but there are songs on Evergreen that legitimately pick up the pulse: ‘Driver’ is a grungy rocker about a loving relationship grounding your most reckless tendencies, while ‘Abigail’ – an ode to a whole different kind of romance that’s named after Allison’s purple-haired wife in Stardew Valley – coasts on the warmest synth and guitar tones. But even those bright spots don’t stop the album’s downward trajectory. “Even when I open my eyes again,” Allison sighs, “I still feel the drop somehow.” If anything, her music aims to sink down to the core of that truth, even against her impulses. To that end, she reconnects with Soccer Mommy’s roots after experimenting with its sonic dimensions on her last two albums, enlisting producer Ben H. Allen III to help provide texture and atmosphere to the organic recordings. As she puts it on ‘Thinking of You’: “Pull back my skin, see what remains.” On ‘M’, it’s the revelation that the dream is as real to her as anything. Rather than ending the song right there, or fading it out, a flute-led outro lets the feeling hang in the air – and maybe carries it someplace new.

jasmine.4.t Announces Debut Album Produced by boygenius, Shares New Single

jasmine.4.t, the moniker of Manchester singer-songwriter Jasmine Cruickshank, has announced her debut full-length, You Are the Morning. Out January 17 via Saddest Factory Records, the record was produced entirely by Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers, and Lucy Dacus at Los Angeles’ Sound City Studios. The members of boygenius also contributed backing vocals, as did the Trans Chorus of Los Angeles. The album includes the previously released single ‘Skin on Skin’, as well as a new track out today called ‘Elephant’. Check it out below and scroll down for the album’s cover art and tracklist.

“I wrote ‘Elephant’ very early in my transition about my first t4t love,” Cruickshank explained in a statement. “It’s about when it hurts because you’re trying to be friends but you both want to be more. My life in Bristol fell apart when I came out and, having no safe place to live, I was staying on queers’ sofas in Manchester, traumatized and in no place to start a relationship. It was beyond healing recording this track in LA with Phoebe, Lucy and Julien, along with my Manchester dolls Eden and Phoenix and with extra layers from local trans musicians Vixen, Bobby, Addy and of course the incredible Trans Chorus of Los Angeles.”

You Are the Morning Cover Artwork:

You Are the Morning Tracklist:

1. Kitchen
2. Skin On Skin
3. Highfield
4. Breaking In Reverse
5. You Are The Morning
6. Best Friend’s House
7. Guy Fawkes Tesco Dissociation
8. Tall Girl
9. New Shoes
10. Roan
11. Elephant
12. Transition
13. Woman

Geese’s Cameron Winter Shares Debut Solo Songs ‘Vines’ and ‘Take It With You’

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Cameron Winter, frontman of NYC-based band Geese, has shared his debut solo music. Listen to ‘Vines’ and ‘Take It With You’ below.

Geese released their most recent album, 3D Country, in June 2023, following it up with the companion EP 4D Country. Revisit our Artist Spotlight interview with Geese.

Hovvdy Share New Single ‘Jean (Julie’s Verson)’

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Hovvdy have released ‘Jean (Julie’s Verson)’, an alternate version of ‘Jean’ off their self-titled album. They’ve also announced a 2025 North America headline tour in support of the double LP. Listen to the track and check out the list of dates below.

“We got together with Bennett Littlejohn to reimagine ‘Jean’,” the duo’s Will Taylor explained in a statement. “This arrangement is stripped back and offers more insight to how the song was written, with an acoustic guitar and a single voice.”

Read our Artist Spotlight interview with Hovvdy.

Hovvdy 2025 Tour Dates:

Mar 5 – Nashville, TN – The Basement East *
Mar 6 – Birmingham, AL – Saturn *
Mar 7 – Atlanta, GA – Aisle 5 *
Mar 8 – Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle Back Room *
Mar 9 – Richmond, VA – Richmond Music Hall *
Mar 12 – Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg *
Mar 13 – Washington, DC – The Atlantis *
Mar 14 – Philadelphia, PA – Ukie Club *
Mar 15 – Boston, MA – Middle East Downstairs *
Mar 17 – Montreal, QC – Bar Le Ritz PDB *
Mar 18 – Toronto, ON – The Great Hall *
Mar 19 – Ann Arbor, MI – The Blind Pig *
Mar 20 – Columbus, OH – A&R Music Bar *
Mar 21 – Indianapolis, IN – Turntable *
Mar 22 – Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall *
Mar 24 – Minneapolis, MN – Turf Club *
Mar 26 – Denver, CO – Marquis Theater +
Mar 29 – Seattle, WA – The Crocodile +
Mar 30 – Portland, OR – Wonder Ballroom +
Apr 1 – San Francisco, CA – The Independent +
Apr 2 – Los Angeles, CA – El Rey Theatre +
Apr 3 – Pioneertown, CA – Pappy + Harriet’s (Indoor) +
Apr 4 – San Diego, CA – The Casbah +
Apr 5 – Tucson, AZ – Club Congress +
Apr 8 – Dallas, TX – Club Dada +
Apr 9 – Austin, TX – Mohawk (outside) +
Apr 11 – New Orleans, LA – Siberia *
May 13 – St. Louis, MO – Duck Room at Blueberry Hill ^
May 14 – Kansas City, MO – recordBar ^
May 17 – Albuquerque, NM – Launchpad ^
May 20 – Oklahoma City, OK – Resonant Head ^
May 21 – Tulsa, OK – Mercury Lounge ^
May 22 – Memphis, TN – 1884 Lounge ^

* with Video Age
+ with runo plum
^ with Free Range

Masma Dream World Unveils New Single ‘Ancient DNA’

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Masma Dream World, the project of Devi Mambouka, has signed to Valley of Search, the experimental label run by Nabil Ayers. Marking the announcement is the new single ‘Ancient DNA’, which you can check out below.

Speaking about the new track, Mambouka said in a statement: “The Melody came to me as a haunting whisper, while I was visiting my cousin Diyendo who investigates the evolutionary history of modern and extinct human populations using ancient DNA at Yale. – ‘Coded in our being we remember.’”

Masma Dream World’s debut LP, Play at Night, came out in 2020.

Momma Release New Single ‘Ohio All the Time’

Momma are back with a new single called ‘Ohio All the Time’. Produced by Kobayashi Ritch, the track marks their first new music since last year’s ‘Bang Bang’. Check out its Zack Shorrosh-directed video below.

“We wrote it about a summer when we were on tour, and it felt like everything in our lives changed within a one-month span,” the Brooklyn-based band explained in a press release. “We wanted the video to capture that youthful feeling, like the world is brand new and everything is ahead of you. We went upstate to our friend’s house near Hudson to film, and just spent the whole day goofing off and running around.”

Momma released their most recent LP, Household Name, in 2022. Revisit our Artist Spotlight interview with Momma.