For small-business owners, there are obvious advantages to providing decent employee health benefits. Among those advantages: improved employee morale, potentially fewer sick...
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6 Tips to Help You Get Back to the Financial Management Basics
Many owners of small- and medium-sized businesses face a simple dilemma on a daily basis: They are really good at providing the service their...
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Tax Tips for Drain Cleaning Contractors
Tax season is here and drain cleaners need to start working on properly filing for their business.
Drain cleaning businesses have a lot of...
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Focus Marketing Efforts Through Platforms You Own
When Facebook told businesses it was all about getting “likes,” we put our efforts into getting “likes.” We thought the cards we...
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Effective Customer Service Starts by Following the Golden Rule
When Scarlett hung up the phone, she was close to tears. Even more unexpectedly, so was the customer service representative on the...
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Is It Time to Cut a Few Customers Loose?
Few businesses truly understand the actual profits generated by individual sales. Most metrics for sales effectiveness are monitored by reviewing top-line revenue...
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Do Employees Deserve Praise Just For Doing Their Job?
Do you ever feel like there is way too much appreciation shown in your workplace? If you said no, you’re not alone. Your...
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Customers Expect a Variety of Payment Options
Do you accept Bitcoin? Probably not.
Few plumbers and drain cleaners take groundbreaking forms of currency, and that’s OK. However, customers do expect various payment options....
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An Ever-Evolving Company is a Successful Company
How long have you been in business? Twenty years? Perhaps 40 years or more? Apparently, you’re doing something right then.
Think back to...
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Contractor Finds Marketing Success Through Instagram
There was a time when Chad Porter, the owner of West Coast Hydrovac Services in suburban Vancouver, British Columbia, used to make...
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Turn Website Views Into Customers
A lot changed in 2020. But one of the things that remained constant is the need for a well-optimized, high-converting website.
How does...
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Reshaping Your Workplace Culture
There’s a lot of emphasis these days on building a great workplace culture. Unfortunately, doing so is a lot like following through...
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Reach New Customers Through Quality Online Reviews
It used to be that the only advertising methods for plumbing and drain cleaning businesses were local newspaper slots, radio commercials, or, if...
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Aligning Daily Operations With a Long-Term Vision
When you first started your business, you glimpsed a future you felt confident pursuing. Maybe you had a dream so big you’d...
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Software Helps Improve Customer Scheduling
With one business decision, Pipe Works Services of Chatham, New Jersey, improved its customer service, increased technicians’ efficiency, boosted office staff productivity...
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Case Study - February 2021
Company simplifies routing and invoicing
Problem / Crazy Mountain Industries, a septic service company in Livingston, Montana, sought a solution that would allow it to manage...
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Product Focus - February 2021
Business Software
1 // My Service Depot Smart ServiceThe Smart Service software system from My Service Depot functions as a direct add-on to QuickBooks, adding scheduling, dispatching, invoicing and...









