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5 Pipeline Inspection Tricks of the Trade
Every profession has a few tricks of the trade, those little tidbits of knowledge only gained with experience, and maybe through learning...
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Bidding is About More Than the Bottom Line
The Boldt Company builds mammoth construction projects: power plants, hospitals, educational and industrial complexes. But before Boldt can build, it must win...
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12 Questions to Ask Before Investing in New Technology
Newer! Better! Faster! There’s nothing like the feeling of unwrapping a piece of brand new equipment designed to catapult a plumbing business...
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Invoicing Made Simple
When you fix a leaking waterline for a customer, it’s obviously nice to get paid as quickly as possible. Late or slow-to-arrive payments...
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Keep Your Plumbers Engaged
Disengaged employees are a lot like clogged pipes: They don’t work very well. And if national surveys are correct, your workforce probably...
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Simple Steps to Grow Your Plumbing Business
If you’ve been in business awhile and are beginning to see a steady profit, it may be tempting to think you can...
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9 Sins of Advertising
“Advertising must generate more in business profit than it costs,” says Tom Egelhoff, president of Eagle Marketing and author of How To...
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Don’t Be Irreplaceable
No matter how profitable your company, how many employees you have, or your legal status, your business is – for all practical...
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Build Your Client Base in a Crowded Marketplace
Is the plumbing industry a dog-eat-dog world where companies are in a tug of war to find jobs and defeat competitors? Not...
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Plumbing Profits
You’re in business to make money. You earn a profit on each foot of drain you clean and every mile of pipe...
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Keep Your Plumbers Busy When Business is Slow
Slow and steady wins the race. While that may be true for the tortoise, plumbers more frequently work like the hare, racing...
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Shopping for an Accountant
My husband and I decided to use a professional tax accountant to do our year-end tax filing for our service company. We...
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Streamline Your Plumbing Business and Boost Productivity
Scott Spencer realized soon after buying Seattle’s Jim Dandy Sewer & Plumbing that it was time for a big change in how...
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Reward and Retain Your Employees
It doesn’t take a string-theory physicist to understand a basic management truth: Employees who feel they’re recognized and rewarded for their work...
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Some Hard Truths About Hiring
Remember the good ol’ days when all you had to do was put an ad in the local paper and hordes of...
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4 Types of Software You Need for Your Small Business
Running a small business is, at its heart, an act of juggling. There are several balls that you have to keep in...


