Business/Marketing/Sales

Troy Abel, president of The Abel Companies, wanted to diversify his infrastructure construction firm to facilitate growth and hedge ...

If you live in the country and have a water softener, what should you do with the backwash water? Discharge it...

We all have expectations. Whether as the result of past experience or just a sense of fairness, each and every customer...

The first column of this three-part series on marketing tactics focused on ways your company can promote itself online. This column...

Harold Kilgore dislikes the word "can't," and has spent the last 12 years proving it through his solution-driven company, Gravelator ...

If you've got even a single employee – or for that matter, if you run your business as a sole proprietor...

Microsoft, General Motors and IBM have long recognized the virtues of having an employee handbook. What works for the big-time operators...

How's business for you? I hope it's good, or at least improving, but if you aren't getting the results you want,...

An old adage says, “If you’re not growing, you’re dying.” Growing a business in a down economy is challenging, and onsite installers...

Missouri homeowners with financial need can now get loans to help cure failing onsite treatment systems. The Missouri On-site Wastewater Improvement Loan program,...

Whether you've been in business for a while or are just starting, you need to get information about your services out...

Yes, breaking up is hard to do. But planning ahead can ease the pain. If you're in business with others, chances...

Last month’s column explained how your credit report and credit score can affect your borrowing, whether on a business or consumer loan....

The typical contractor books flights, hotels and rental cars online, buys books online and watches movies online, but books appointments with clients...

Glen Gonsorowski, second-generation owner of Florian & Sons Excavating, grew up watching his dad periodically refocus the business to succeed in a...

Property taxes are always higher than you’d like, and these days, because real estate values have fallen in many cities, the taxes...

Reputation is everything,” says Alex Mauck, third-generation owner of Goodman Sanitation in Troutdale, Ore., a suburb of Portland. “As customers get smarter,...