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What To Do When You Encounter Transite Pipe
“I have a customer who has transite pipe. She told me there is asbestos in it and wonders if I’m authorized to...
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Maintaining a Drama-Free Work Environment
Some days, working for a small business can feel a bit like you stepped back into high school. There are fights between...
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Building Relationships Can Boost Your 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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Google Business Listings Bolster Online Presence
It’s important that online search engine users be able to find your company. Simply put, this is how most consumers make their...
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Focus on Education to Secure Customers
You can have top-of-the-line equipment and plenty of skill and expertise. But if customers aren’t even aware of what you can do...
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Protect Your People With Better PPE
The dangers on your job sites are constant, and staying safe requires more than a hard hat, gloves and glasses. As technology...
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Take Control of Your Advertising Spending
When it comes to marketing, more isn’t always better. There are so many viable options out there today and it’s easy to...
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5 Recruiting and Training Strategies for Your Business
If you want to grow your business, you need to recruit and train a team. But you can’t just hire anyone. You...
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How to Troubleshoot Effluent Screens
If a screen requires servicing more frequently than anticipated by design, either the effluent screen or the wastewater characteristics should be evaluated...
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Planning for Worst-Case Scenarios
Unless you are naturally pessimistic, you probably don’t spend too much time thinking about disaster hitting your business. But the reality is...
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Balancing Emotions and Logic in Business Decision-Making
When family members own a business together, separating work from family is nearly impossible. While the brain should drive business decisions, emotions...
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Prepare Employees to Make a Good First Impression
“You will never get a second chance to make a first impression.”That famous quote attributed to Will Rogers is why the people...
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Current Ebola Guidelines May Put Sewer Workers at Risk
A recent study from Drexel University and the University of Pittsburgh claims sewer workers may not be adequately protected by guidelines when...
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Joining a Service Club: What's in It for Me?
Service clubs have gained a bit of a reputation for being old and stuffy. But don’t write off this great American tradition...
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Pipe Bursting Preserves Village’s Aesthetics
Take Bloomfield Village, Michigan, as a prime example of why it pays to get involved in the pipe bursting business. When the...
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Save Yourself From Devastating Losses
Data breaches and hacked accounts are big problems associated with big companies like Yahoo, Home Depot and Target because those are the...















