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Shift Your Customer Service Mindset
If you found a treasure map that you knew for sure would lead to a pile of treasure, would you follow it?...
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Mistakes Can Happen, but Avoid These With Payrolls
Maybe you’re weighing the pros and cons of hiring your first employee. Maybe you’ve had employees for years and have been handling...
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Make Your Time Behind the Wheel More Productive
During the busy months, time seems to just slip away. One minute you are drinking your morning coffee and checking your email....
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3 Common Social Media Mistakes
If you spend any time filtering through contractors’ Twitter or Facebook accounts you will find that several have been abandoned with the...
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The Hard Truth About Hard Water
No doubt your customers have heard of hard water. But that doesn’t necessarily mean they understand it and what to do about...
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Strategies for Forming a Long-Term Business Plan
Does your plumbing business need a BHAG? No, a BHAG is not a fancy new piece of plumbing equipment. It stands for:...
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Make the Most of Your Advertising Dollars
At Royal Flush, we put most of our advertising dollars toward Google keywords or Google advertising. But you do need to have some other...
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Customers Love to Get Free Stuff, Right?
Every now and then when I want to measure a kid’s height or retrieve change that somehow found its way under my...
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Targeting Your Potential Customer Base With Google AdWords
The internet affords small-business owners countless opportunities to market their products and services. This is a blessing and a bit of a...
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California Plumber Finds Both Work-Life Balance and Business Growth
For years, Cary Hansen felt like he owned just a job while running his business, Hansen’s Plumbing & Mechanical in Ventura, California....
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5 Valuable Business Apps for Plumbers
Some days it is hard to believe that I have been with Royal Flush for 10 years. But then I take a...
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Hiring Strategy: How to Play the Negotiation Game
If your business is booming and you need to add staff, or you’ve had an employee resign, you face the challenge of...
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Improve Your Training Effectiveness
A plumbing company is only as good as its team. When your customers think of your company, they’ll think of your employees....
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Diagnosing Pump and Well Problems
Diagnosing problems with a deep-water well can be difficult. Symptoms of a serious problem, like no water in the house, can be...
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Do Your Time-Off Policies Need a Reboot?
In 2015, former U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez was quoted as saying: “We are on the cusp of huge breakthroughs on...
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The Trick to Getting Local Press Coverage
It’s one thing to find out your local paper is writing a story on your small family-owned plumbing company. It’s quite another...









