Years after emigrating from South Africa, a Tennessee contractor finds keys to growth in a focus on customers and devotion to a franchise

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Contractors use a variety of strategies to make sure they can carve out family time amid the heavy demands of owning a business

By learning to be a businessman as well as a technician, Frankey Grayton took his company to new levels of success

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Instead of a costly dental insurance plan, a dental discount card can be an affordable way to build up employee benefit offerings

A Texas contractor uses hydroexcavation to remove compacted soil from under a swimming pool with a fractured drainpipe

Waterblasters help a New York State contractor deliver high productivity and shorten customers’ plant shutdowns

You need to keep your people safe on the job. But it’s nice if they’re careful at home, too.

The one insurance coverage you should have but don’t could open the door to a catastrophic loss that ruins everything you have spent years building

To protect against calamities that could cripple or ruin your business, you need to consider insurance that goes well beyond the obvious coverage

Quality control is not a matter of after-the-fact checking of inspection data. It is a state of mind and an insistence on perfection as the everyday goal.