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Make Flat-Rate Pricing Work for Your Business
Switching your pumping business from a time-and-materials rate structure to flat-rate pricing is a big jump that will ultimately affect your bottom...
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Tips for Proper Effluent Screen Cleaning
An effluent screen requires regular maintenance and must be periodically checked. The need to clean a screen should not be considered an...
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Keep Employee Engagement High
Employee engagement is always one of the biggest issues facing employers. As well it should be: Studies consistently show that disengaged workers...
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How Leaders Can Improve Workplace Communication
There are many problems that can be solved through better communication. Teams that communicate well together tend to be more productive and find...
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How to Size a Soil Treatment System
Across the U.S., there are two common approaches to determine how large a soil treatment area, or STA, should be: soil morphology evaluations,...
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Help Reverse Your Customers' Bad Flushing Habits
Some may think because some homes have a garbage disposal it is OK to just use a toilet to get rid of...
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Plumber Sees Business Boost After Adding Septic Services
In this online-exclusive video, Jeremy Giard — co-owner of Timothy A. Giard & Son Plumbing & Heating of North Andover, Massachusetts —...
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Effective Employee Recognition Is About Tailoring to the Individual
Most employers operate employee recognition programs, marking everything from good performance to job longevity. But that doesn’t automatically produce engaged employees. There...
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How to Ensure Employee Safety Amidst the Ongoing Pandemic
As we enter the next leg of the COVID-19 pandemic, many business owners are beginning to wrestle with a crucial question: How...
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Supreme Court Says Wastewater Pros Should Examine Discharge Paths
After a lot of buildup, the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in a closely watched wastewater case turned out to be less than...
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Online Marketing Has Shifted. Here's How You Should Respond.
Google makes changes to its algorithm over 500 times a year. And every one of those changes can have an impact on...
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5 Tips to Keep Summer Special Events Running Smoothly
It doesn’t matter if it’s your first time servicing a special event or the hundredth, special event season can be an unmanageable...
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Portable Grease Separation Solution Solves Pumper's Grease Trap Riddle
When the main treatment plant on the island of St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands stopped accepting grease trap waste about...
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How COVID-19 Affects Your Business Taxes
In response to the unprecedented coronavirus pandemic and its accompanying economic disruptions, Congress has passed significant legislation to provide small-business owners with...
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Ohio Pumpers Offer Maintenance Walk-Through at Mobile Home Wastewater Treatment Plant
In this online exclusive video, Tim Kettler and Malcolm Kettler of Action Septic Service in Warsaw, Ohio, take viewers on a detailed...
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Effective Safety Training Goes Beyond the Hard Hat
What is an acceptable level of risk on the job? For Action Septic in Warsaw, Ohio, the answer is that there’s no...
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Can Friendships Survive Business Partnerships?
We’ve all heard the horror stories of great businesses utterly collapsing because the founders were good friends and the relationship turned sour....
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Are Septic System Professionals at a Greater Risk for COVID-19?
Onsite sewage system service providers and installers who clean out septic, holding and pump tanks along with aerobic treatment units, and perform...






















