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Entries Tagged Business Strategy
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Double Down on Customer Education for 2023
It’s time to recover from the New Year’s Eve party hangover, put away the party favors, and get back to the serious...
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Mark and Kris Coelho Move to Land-Spread Septage and Portable Sanitation Waste
Mark and Kris Coelho’s return to the septic service business after a decade-long hiatus began in a Staples parking lot in Provo,...
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Buying an Existing Business? Avoid Taking On Someone Else’s Problems.
Growing your company through acquisition isn’t a sudden process. Rather, business acquisition requires a highly structured and detailed series of actions.Acquisition...
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Make Sure You’re Not Wasting Your Business Marketing Dollars
There are countless ways you could be wasting your marketing dollars. As John Wanamaker, known for his successful use of advertising, once...
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Are You a Micromanager? Look For the Signs and Make Changes Fast!
Regardless of their intentions, business owners who micromanage often create an environment of fear, mistrust and disengagement. The constant oversight, checking in...
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Is Grease Trap Service Right For Your Pumping Company?
Septic pumping and grease trap service have some things in common: vacuum trucks, disposal issues, practical routing considerations and customer service are...
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It May Be a Dirty Job, but He’s All About Getting Grease Gone
As a child, Kurt Cortese enjoyed going to his grandfather’s pharmacy and hanging out, later doing the same when his mother and...
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Making Images and Video More Valuable in Online Search Results
You’ve done it. You started your own business, you have a website built, and now you’re ready to start taking on more...
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Utilizing ‘Human Data’ to Find Your Preferred Customers
Those of us who have been in the marketing industry for years throw around abstract terms like “target audience,” “market data,”...
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Pumper/Nonprofit Partnership Tackles Rocky Mountain Waste Challenge
Since COVID-19 struck a few years ago, it seems like pumpers everywhere have taken the definition of “busy” to a new level....
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Make It Better
When Luanne and Greg Howland bought Apple Valley Pumping in 2018, they acquired a well-established business that was founded decades ago in...
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Starting a New Business? You Need the Big 4
Got a big idea for a new business? Well then, you need the Big 4: an accountant, insurance agent, attorney and banker. A...
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Hello, Goodbye! Learning the Ins and Outs of Business Email Greetings
Billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson sent me an email a few years back. I had published an article about the time he gave...














