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How to Prepare Your Business for Tax Day in 2024
The beginning of the 2023 tax filing season was Jan. 29, so now is the time to get a start on preparing filing...
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Sharing Resources With Industry Peers
Peers helping peers. That’s the story behind an organization that EJ Plumbing, of Santa Clara, California, joined about a year ago.
It is...
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Clever Videos Can Jumpstart Your Marketing Message
Short-form videos have taken the digital marketing world by storm in recent years. Platforms like TikTok, Instagram and YouTube have paved the...
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What I Wish I Knew Before Starting a Plumbing Business
Starting a plumbing company comes with a unique set of challenges and understanding certain aspects of the business beforehand can help set...
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What’s Sinking Your Employees’ Well-Being?
The sinking of the Titanic stands as a tragic and haunting reminder of human fallibility. Surprisingly, the parallels between the Titanic disaster...
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Tips for Navigating the Current Equipment Financing Environment
Have you priced out new equipment lately? Talk about sticker shock.
Equipment prices jumped during the pandemic — sometimes 30% to 40% —...
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Hawaiian Plumber Brings the Aloha Spirit to His Business
Deven Tells aptly named his company All Aloha Plumbing. The Hawaiian native firmly believes in the “aloha” ethos for self, individuals and...
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Is 2024 a Defining Year for Home Service Businesses?
A new year, 2024, is here and business owners in the home service sector are bracing for a year that promises both...
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Looking at Financial Wellness as a Key Employee Benefit
Small-business owners have a natural interest in keeping their employees happy, productive and motivated.
One of the best ways to accomplish these goals...
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7 Tips for End-of-Year Tax Prep
Tax season can be a grueling period for any small-business owner, sapping time and resources that you could otherwise be spending on...
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How to Protect Against the Threat of Cyberattack
Remember the good old days when the most common forms of cybersecurity threats involved getting an email from someone claiming to be...
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Overcoming the Curse of Knowledge to Inject New Ideas Into Your Business
When we think about famous visionary thinkers, we subconsciously assume that they have some magic characteristic that the rest of us don’t...
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Jobber Shares More Entrepreneurship Tips in Second Season of Podcast Series
Jobber, a provider of operations management software for home service businesses, recently started the second season of “Masters of Home Service,” a...










