Joe Procopio may have a successful septic business, but his two company expansions — which both have proven advantageous — came about as happenstance.
Procopio, 34, owns ProSeptic, the septic division of his company Land Works in Scituate, Rhode Island. He initially started a part-time landscaping company in 2003, but demand soon grew for hauling and excavating, which led to him launching Land Works in 2012.
Soon Procopio — a former emergency medical technician — was doing a few septic installations just for people he knew. “We did a couple a year, and it kind of blossomed,” says Procopio, who
