Contractor businesses succeed and fail by how well they manage just three key areas: people, process and profit. In a successful company,...
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Editorial
Is It Time to Cut a Few Customers Loose?
Entry 287486Few businesses truly understand the actual profits generated by individual sales. Most metrics for sales effectiveness are monitored by reviewing top-line...
Editorial
Explore the Benefits of Purchasing Through a Dealer or Distributor
When a business is ready to invest thousands of dollars in new machinery and equipment, sometimes it’s best to cut to the...
Editorial
Need Cash? Don’t Forget to Explore SBA-Backed Loans.
Entry 287492Where does a pumper turn when he or she needs an infusion of cash to buy a new piece of equipment,...
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COVID-19 – Preparing for the New Normal
Don't be paralyzed by COVID-19; instead, be motivated. Use the time assets you have now to create a more stable future. Start...
Online Exclusives
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...
Editorial
Ballooning Fleet Vehicle Insurance Premiums Threaten Pumpers
Insuring your fleet of trucks is one major requirement of operating any wastewater service provider business. Accidents can happen at any time,...
Editorial
Are You Treating Customers Right? Do They Think So?
It’s not often that you get a chance to rip off a customer a second time.
I suppose that’s because most people don’t...
Online Exclusives
Keep Customers From Eyeing Up Your Competitors
Although Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield may have been right about love relationships when they penned their hit, “Breaking Up Is Hard...
Online Exclusives
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...
Online Exclusives
Pandemic Provides Opportunity to Embrace Email Marketing
Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, internet usage has skyrocketed across the U.S. People are turning to their devices and computers...
Online Exclusives
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....
Online Exclusives
Tax Relief Available for Small Businesses Providing Paid Leave During Pandemic
The coronavirus pandemic has created a challenging climate for small businesses. Financial concerns are butting up against public health interests.
With that challenge...
Editorial
Top Tips for Equipment Purchasing in a New Taxing Environment
Equipment is one of the most important factors in smooth operation of a pumping business, and the question of how to pay...
Editorial
Oh No, Not Another Staff Meeting!?!
I sit right next to them. We don’t need to have a staff meeting.
I used to have staff meetings, but we stopped...
Online Exclusives
Help Lead Your Team Through COVID-19
The rise of the COVID-19 virus has tested all of us in ways we never previously imagined. Septic services professionals, for example,...
Online Exclusives
How to Protect Your Company Against Internet Hacks
Your septic services company relies on email, a company website, digital payments and smartphones to conduct business. The problem is that every...








