As you can probably attest from personal experience, most people don’t have a lot of cash on hand these days. Rather than...
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For 5-Star Results, Be SMART About Your Service
I bet most plumbing managers believe good customer service plays out like a movie script — right down to happy, smiling faces in...
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Great Customer Service is More than a Catchphrase
Every plumbing company wants to provide good customer service, yet many fail at it. What seems like such a simple task has...
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The Need for Soft Skills
Today’s workers require more than technical training to succeed, say panelists at the Workforce Development Roundtable on Capitol Hill in May.PHCC members...
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What Should Your Customer Service Representative Know?
What are the most important qualities your customer service representative (CSR) should possess? Is it a smile that radiates through the phone?...
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For Job Corps Apprentice, the Journey Begins
Raha Kambale, 20, has learned how to work with customers, install pumps, toilets, sinks, showers and more as part of a Job...
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Plumber Industry News: Kinetico Co-Founder Passes Away
William C. Prior, 85, co-founder of Kinetico home water treatment systems, passed away Feb. 28. In addition to his work with Kinetico,...
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Let Customers Generate Work for You
If you own a plumbing company that generates service calls, you don't always have to wait for customers to call you. It’s...
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10 Tips to Improve Your Online Reputation
If you were operating a restaurant, you’d be accustomed to having your business reviewed all over the place — newspapers, magazines, travel...
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Top 5 Strategies for Growing Your Plumbing Business
As the co-owner of Gold Medal Service — New Jersey’s largest home services company, offering plumbing, heating and cooling, drain and sewer cleaning...
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Service and Communication
Professional plumbing organizations have more duties than they realize when it comes to home and commercial pipe repair. Excellent work and customer...
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Business Lessons from a Hibachi Chef
Earlier this year, my wife and I traveled to visit another plumbing company that had asked for our help getting their business...
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How Self-Employed People Can Make More Money
Steve Huff is president of Steve Huff Plumbing in Kingsport, Tennessee, a company built on customer satisfaction. Founded in 1975, Huff was...
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Job Corps Students Learn Plumbing Trade
Amanda Swanson, 18, and Raha Kambale, 20, are participating in a six-week apprenticeship with Bill Howe Plumbing of San Diego, California. Although...



















