Record-breaking numbers of employees continue to quit their jobs. As this so-called Great Resignation ripples through the workplace, it underscores the need...
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Managing Your Business During Inflation
The Producer Price Index went up 10% in 2021, which was last seen during the Great Recession of 2008, and the Consumer...
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How Helping a Reporter Out Can Help Your Business
As a business owner, you know your stuff. You have to. But are you using that expertise and knowledge to get eyes...
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5 SEO Techniques to Keep Your Company Website Search Ranking High
It is important to put yourself in the best position to bring in new customers. And when people look for service businesses,...
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Implementing a Successful Succession Plan For Your Company
Every septic services company owner has to stop working eventually.
Whether it is a planned retirement, health issues, or death, you will not run...
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Is It Time For a Fuel Surcharge?
As you are no doubt painfully aware, diesel and gasoline fuel prices are currently surging due to several factors, from pandemic-related supply...
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How to Mitigate Performance Bias Among Your Workers
Despite our best intentions, we all have biases, both conscious and unconscious. And in the workplace, these biases — defined as systematic...
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6 Things to Consider When Acquiring a Skid Steer
You have a job where you need a skid steer. But determining the best avenue for acquiring one isn’t always an easy...
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Add This Spreadsheet for Instant Snapshot of Your Business’s Vitality
Imagine you could run a 200-employee business with millions of dollars of revenue with one simple spreadsheet. If you’re like many small...
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Show Me the Money … 7 Steps to Securing Funds
Looking for money to open or expand a pumping business? A variety of lenders are out there — from your gray-haired grandma...
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6 Tips for Announcing Price Increases to Customers
Many businesses boast about low prices or efforts to make their services as affordable as possible. But if you want to keep...
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Best of 2021: Pumpers Offer Their Top Strategies and Advice
One of the best things about the septic services industry is people's willingness to share stories, advice, know-how and new technologies with...
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Nate and Brianne Geetings Bring Technology and Sales Sizzle to The Pumping Service
When Nate Geetings was born in 1984, his parents had already been operating Benzie Pumping for nine years. He has nothing but...
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Buyer Beware: A Used Equipment Checklist
If you require some heavy equipment for certain jobs, you can find significant savings by purchasing used equipment.
“Demand is strong for machines with...















