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Beginning a Mentorship Can Benefit You and Your Company
Back when the fax machine was cutting-edge technology, I worked in a busy office where one of the senior managers would pick...
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Improve Your Training Effectiveness
A pumping company is only as good as its team. When your customers think of your company, they’ll think of your employees....
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Customers Love to Get Free Stuff, Right?
Every now and then when I want to measure a kid’s height or retrieve change that somehow found its way under my...
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9 Ways to Cut Costs and Raise Your Bottom Line
The best get-rich-quick schemes drop the last of those three words. If you want to add to your bottom line, don’t go...
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A Bigger Tank Means Better Productivity for This Business Owner
For the first five years after he purchased McNel Septic in Ravensdale, Washington, Shawn Carlton relied on a 1995 International truck with...
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Busting the Top 9 Truck Financing Myths
As a business owner, you’re in constant decision-making mode. With everyone relying on you to make the right choices, even small decisions...
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How to Make the Most of Your Advertising Dollars
At Royal Flush, we put most of our advertising dollars towards Google keywords or Google advertising. But you do need to have some other...
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Should Every Day be Take Your Dog to Work Day?
There’s a Boston terrier snoring under my desk as I write this, and his presence may be making me more productive.A 2012...
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How to Improve Employee Morale — Without Pay Raises
It’s important that you have a happy workforce. A happy workforce means better retention, which means much less time and money spent...
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Miami to Washington: A Pumper's 3,200-Mile Journey
Ronnie Tamez, owner of First Call Septic Services, knows a thing or two about getting what he wants out of used trucks....
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How to Get Customer Reviews and Amp Up Your Business
Customer reviews matter. Reviews and star ratings, posted to sites like Yelp, Angie’s List, Facebook and Google, help other customers make confident,...
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12 Tasks That Will Make Your Business Better
You’ve celebrated the holidays and your New Year’s Eve celebration is but a foggy memory. Now it’s time to plan for taking...
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Doing the Dirty Work: Workhorse Backhoes Bring Productivity
Installing septic systems is a big piece of the revenue pie at Big Bore Drilling Certified Septic and Hydroflushing in Fresno, California....




















