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Tools. Trucks. Employees. There's a lot of risk involved with owning a plumbing business. Learn what type of — and how much — insurance you need.

A fellow plumbing contractor shares suggestions for a client-centered approach to running a business: “If you take care of your customers, they’ll take care of you.”

Whether you operate in a tourist town or provide plumbing services in the snow-rich mountains, staying busy year-round isn’t a guarantee. Learn how to keep technicians busy.

Day-to-day operations offer many hurdles. Don’t let fleet management be one of them.

Take a page out of this business coach’s handbook to check unruly workers who need an attitude adjustment.

Sick of employees call in sick? Check out these off-the-wall excuses, and then take note of these preventive measures to quell absenteeism.

If you’re still rocking a mullet, that’s great, but don’t let an outdated website kill your business. Do the Google gods know you, and your website, exist?

Face it, your service wrap design stinks. Find out what you're doing wrong, and learn how to create eye-catching graphics.

Service work requires contacts. If you don’t know who your local chamber director is, then you’re missing a huge market opportunity.

Just getting started in the plumbing industry? Here’s some advice to help.

White crumbling concrete. Rusty streaks. Septic professionals have been seeing the same problem for years – deteriorating septic tanks. Learn what causes this damaging issue, and find out how to address the problem.

Do your customers only have nice things to say about your company? Think again. Perhaps it’s time to ask.

Don’t fall victim to identity theft. Here are few easy ways to ensure your identity isn’t stolen.

From 15-ton lumps of food fat to $20,000 in cash, drain cleaning and plumbing contractors have unearthed some pretty amazing things.

From floating cameras to self-propelled units, here's a look at how the pipeline inspection industry has evolved, and where it's headed in the years to come.

California cleaning contractor starts with a focus on residential customers, and along the way finds other avenues to profitability.

Loader backhoes provide great versatility and high job site productivity. Here is some practical advice for selecting the machine that best fits your needs.

Pipe bursting enables a Louisiana contractor to replace a blocked sewer lateral after a failed directional boring attempt.