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Create Your Exit Plan Now for a Worry-Free Retirement
What will happen to your business, your company assets, and your employees once you decide to retire or if you were to...
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Make Sure Reality Meets Customer Expectations
Here’s a personal story that showcases the importance of setting as well as meeting customer expectations in your business.
My family recently went...
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Revolutionize Recruitment by Turning Ex-Employees Into Brand Ambassadors
In the seemingly neverending struggle to find quality employees in one of the tightest and most competitive labor markets in recent memory,...
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Keep Customers Coming Back
The goal of home-service companies is to get the phone to ring. We can calculate the cost to get the phone to...
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Jobber Expands Free Educational Resources for Contractors
Jobber, a leading provider of operations management software for home-service businesses, recently announced the availability of three new YouTube Series: “Ask a...
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Improving Vendor Relations
One of the most important parts of running a home-service company is finding good vendors who can supply you materials, equipment, and...
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Using AI Generation in Your Marketing Content
We are seeing AI technology appear in more areas of our everyday lives.
Self-driving cars are getting more attention. Our phones can respond...
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Why Mental Health Is the New Frontier in Job Safety
Psychological safety is the new frontier in the field of occupational health and safety (OH&S), according to Kim MacDonald, founder and CEO...
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Heating and Cooling Services Boost Revenue
To Mike Marvon, the owner of Lesco Plumbing, Heating & Cooling in Caldwell, New Jersey, adding complementary services to his plumbing service...
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Hawaiian Plumber Battles Supply Chain Issues
For the past few years, supply chain issues have been a major issue for businesses. The issue naturally is compounded in a...
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NUCA Announces New Insurance Benefit for Members
This year the National Utility Contractors Association (NUCA) is introducing NUCA Assurance, a new group captive program available exclusively to NUCA members.
NUCA...
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Don’t Overuse Automated Processes in Your Business
There is no doubt that using automation in a home-services company can be a game changer for the office staff, the customer,...
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Contractor Reaps Rewards of Eye-Catching Branding
John Snyder credits his wife Megan with coming up with the unusual color scheme in the branding of John Snyder Plumbing &...












