As business-savvy as most in the pumping industry are, some are stuck in the age of June and Ward Cleaver when it...
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5 Tips to Win the Sale Without Losing on Price
Portable restroom operators, like parents, can be undone if they constantly cave in to whining. If parents give in every time a...
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Septic Care: Explaining the Effects of Detergents
Explaining to customers why their ATU looks like the photo at right takes patience. Here’s some background info to help you out.Dishwashing...
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Go Toward the Light
It is pretty hard to go to the bathroom when you can’t see anything. Let me paint you a picture. A forest...
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How to Find Portable Sanitation Bid Work
So you’re looking to grow your portable sanitation business and you need some more customers fast? Then look no further than your...
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Fore! Golf Carts Find New Uses in Portable Sanitation
What started out as a hunting vehicle soon became a company staple for Scott Hess and his father, Dave, owners of Pottie...
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How to Upsell Portable Restroom Services Without Sounding Sleazy
“But wait, there’s more!”Isn’t that the most common phrase on any infomercial? It sounds horrible but it seems to work. Somehow you...
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Hop on the Revenue Train: Diversify Your Services
Alex Rodriguez started FarWest Sanitation & Storage in 1994 as a one-truck portable restroom business. Two decades later, the services offered by...
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3 Strategies to Put Your Sales Through the Roof
There are many ways you can make your pumping business better, but I narrowed that list down to three things to focus...
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10 Tips For Dealing With Negative Online Reviews
If you were operating a restaurant, you’d be accustomed to having your business reviewed all over the place — newspapers, magazines, travel...
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Customers Benefit from Reminder Plan
A decade on the other side of losing its owner and primary operator, Mark Southwick, A 1st Rate Pumping Service continues to...
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Best Practices: Education is Number One
Early in its existence, A 1st Rate Pumping Service became a go-to company known for its industry savvy and expertise. As professional...
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How Self-Employed People Can Make More Money
Steve Huff is president of Steve Huff Plumbing in Kingsport, Tennessee, a company built on customer satisfaction. Founded in 1975, Huff was...
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Encourage Customers to Participate in Giving Tuesday – And Look Classy Doing It
Are you horrified by those images of mayhem as people seem to completely lose it during the Black Friday, post-Thanksgiving Day sales?Giving...


















