Business Ownership Articles

Selling a company isn’t an easy. You spend a large portion of your working life trying to grow your company and now for...

Many a skilled plumber and drain cleaner, at some point, has an itch to strike out on their own and open a...

Starting a business is always a learning experience, not least of which is learning to cope with the unforeseen. When Kristy Black...

During the past two decades, Julius Voss has slowly but surely assembled a fleet of productivity- and profitability-enhancing equipment that’s surprisingly large...

Jeff Bezos founded Amazon in 1994. Today he’s one of the richest people in the world. But while Amazon is undeniably a...

I was thinking the other day about some of the conversations I’ve had with business owners who have been profiled in Cleaner the last few...

Marisa Beaver is used to being an outlier in the world of trenchless sewer line replacement and repair, but she turns her differences...

Everyone has the potential to be an industry leader. These leaders are the ones who transform the world — who disrupt their industry...

All right, world. Koko is at your service.For a small Los Angeles plumbing and drain cleaning company to use such a slogan...

As Ian Stewart and his brother, Stuart, began charting a course for their new company, ESP&P Industrial Services, a simple but effective...

When Lucas Elsing formed Kegonsa Plumbing in 2018, he was certain he had the technical skills to succeed. “I was pretty confident in...

We watched the Mars rover landing back in February, and the significance of the accomplishment was palpable. We could feel the historical...

Anyone in a family business knows that according to many statistics, the chance of the business surviving declines with each handoff to...

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...