Earlier this year, U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez was quoted as saying: “We are on the cusp of huge breakthroughs on...
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Diversify Your Services: Jetting 201
Now that you’re familiar with the kinds of water jetters available and understand how they work, it’s time to home in on a critical...
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Extend the Life of Your Cable Machine
You just bought a brand-new cable machine in order to expand into drain cleaning work. How do you make it last as long...
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Diversify Your Services: Jetting 101
You’re probably familiar with water jetters, even if you don’t own or operate them. Jetters provide a powerful sewer and drain cleaning...
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10 Tips for Small-Business Success
There’s no way to guarantee success — but there are plenty of little things you can do, habits you can form, to...
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Building Relationships Can Boost Your Pumping Business
Maybe you have heard the term “community relations” and shrugged it off as a buzzword. Or maybe you see community relations management (CRM) as...
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Moving to a Blower System
Pumper Phil LaRoche and his wife, Kathy, operate LaRoche’s Sewer, Drain & Septic Services, a full-service septic company in Faribault, Minnesota, a...
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Is Body Art OK For Your Workforce?
When I was a kid, the only person I could name who had a tattoo was Popeye the Sailor Man. Back then,...
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How To Prepare Onsite Systems for Winter
You probably get this question a lot from homeowners as temperatures drop in the northern states: “Are there things I need to...
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Time to Winterize: 11 Tips to Get You Through the Winter
The cold, hard truth is: Winter is coming. In some areas, it may have already arrived. Are you ready? And are your...
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Expert Tips for Baffle Repair
One advantage to working on septic systems for over 40 years is that people I have worked with often share pictures or...
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Buying Insurance To Cover Your Small-Business Office
There are several possible scenarios for what “back at the office” means to the owner of a septic company. Maybe your entire business...
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Should You Drug Test?
When your name is on the trucks and on the door, you don’t want anyone – especially an employee – tarnishing your...
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Classy Trucks: They Did What?
Pumpers have a way of going above and beyond to make their service trucks look great or perform more efficiently. They also...

















