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Keep Customers From Eyeing Up Your Competitors
Although Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield may have been right about love relationships when they penned their hit, “Breaking Up Is Hard...
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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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It’s All in Your Hands
Do you have a business idol — the mogul, living or dead, you’d invite to your dream dinner party?A lot of the...
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Bizzy Bee Plumbing Sets a High Bar for Professionalism and Customer Service
When Robert Schwachenwald moved to Raleigh, North Carolina, and established Bizzy Bee Plumbing in 2011, he had one service truck. He focused...
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Focused on Encouraging a Workforce Youth Movement
Owning a business and worrying only about operating it successfully might be enough for many people. Yet when Tom Mullen purchased North...
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NAP Grows Into a Full-Service Pipe Rehab and Repair Business
Tom Mullen presides over a company growing so fast that it sometimes gives him pause. But it’s not a bad problem to...
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Are You Doing All You Can With Your Trade Show Knowledge and Contacts?
After a trip to the Water & Wastewater Equipment, Treatment & Transport (WWETT) Show, what do you do?
You saw the trucks, the...
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Why You Should Take Staff Meetings Seriously
For a myriad reasons, many small-business owners don’t hold regular staff meetings. Furthermore, most who do don’t get the most they could...
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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 only in your personal life, but in your business life as well. Start with the obvious point: Long-term...
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7 Reasons to Put Golden Handcuffs on Your Top Employees
High-performing employees are often the most valuable assets in a company. Customers, products, technology, inventory and many other assets come and go.
A...
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Industry News - March 2020
Amazing Machinery announces expansion of productsAmazing Machinery announced it has expanded its selection of cable machines, cables and blades. They now offer...
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Tips to Keep Your Career on the Right Track
At times, careers can be a lot like locating sewer lines — you never know where they might lead. Some are straightforward,...















