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How COVID-19 Affects Your Business Taxes
In response to the unprecedented coronavirus pandemic and its accompanying economic disruptions, Congress has passed significant legislation to provide small-business owners with...
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Pandemic Provides Opportunity to Embrace Email Marketing
Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, internet usage has skyrocketed across the U.S. People are turning to their devices and computers...
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Can Friendships Survive Business Partnerships?
We’ve all heard the horror stories of great businesses utterly collapsing because the founders were good friends and the relationship turned sour....
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Tax Relief Available for Small Businesses Providing Paid Leave During Pandemic
The coronavirus pandemic has created a challenging climate for small businesses. Financial concerns are butting up against public health interests.
With that challenge...
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Help Lead Your Team Through COVID-19
The rise of the COVID-19 virus has tested all of us in ways we never previously imagined. Septic services professionals, for example,...
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Don’t Panic: How Coronavirus Could Impact Your Septic Services Business
The coronavirus has the world’s attention. Public reactions seem to range from media coverage eye-rolling to mass toilet paper shortages.
One thing is...
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Key Principles for Good Cash Flow Management
Without good cash flow, it can be difficult to take care of business essentials such as paying employees and subcontractors, purchasing materials or...
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How to Navigate Challenging Business Relationships
One of your employees is acting weird. Typically personable and engaged, this guy suddenly seems distant and distracted.
As the odd behavior adds...
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Happy Employees Work Harder and Stay Longer, Says Manitoba Pumper
Steve Moon, owner of King’s Services in Headingley, Manitoba, Canada, knows working in the portable restroom and septic service industries isn’t the...
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3 Ways to Increase Pumping Revenue by Texting
Entry 287593Wouldn’t you love an “easy button” you could press to magically grow your revenue? Magic buttons don’t exist, but the next...
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Seemingly Good Short-Term Business Decisions Can Have Long-Term Negative Effects
If you’re like a lot of business owners, when you first started your company, you said yes to just about every job....
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6 Tips for Building Better Business Relationships
Relationships matter — not just in your personal life, but in your business life, too. To start with the obvious point, long-term...
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Team Building and Togetherness Are Core Strategies for This Pumper
Many business owners talk about their employees being part of the family. But they might not go as far as Chris Lanoue,...

















