Business/Marketing/Sales

Jamey Mullin has positioned his company for expansion. Hi-Tech Plumbing & Leak Detect was operating out of two buildings totaling 4,000 square...

Every profession has a few tricks of the trade, those little tidbits of knowledge only gained with experience, and maybe through learning...

The Boldt Company builds mammoth construction projects: power plants, hospitals, educational and industrial complexes. But before Boldt can build, it must win...

Newer! Better! Faster! There’s nothing like the feeling of unwrapping a piece of brand new equipment designed to catapult a plumbing business...

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...

Disengaged employees are a lot like clogged pipes: They don’t work very well. And if national surveys are correct, your workforce probably...

If you’ve been in business awhile and are beginning to see a steady profit, it may be tempting to think you can...

“Advertising must generate more in business profit than it costs,” says Tom Egelhoff, president of Eagle Marketing and author of How To...

No matter how profitable your company, how many employees you have, or your legal status, your business is – for all practical...

Is the plumbing industry a dog-eat-dog world where companies are in a tug of war to find jobs and defeat competitors? Not...

You’re in business to make money. You earn a profit on each foot of drain you clean and every mile of pipe...

Slow and steady wins the race. While that may be true for the tortoise, plumbers more frequently work like the hare, racing...

My husband and I decided to use a professional tax accountant to do our year-end tax filing for our service company. We...

Scott Spencer realized soon after buying Seattle’s Jim Dandy Sewer & Plumbing that it was time for a big change in how...

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...

Remember the good ol’ days when all you had to do was put an ad in the local paper and hordes of...

Running a small business is, at its heart, an act of juggling. There are several balls that you have to keep in...