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Electrician Safety Check: A Guide
Electrical companies should maintain a high level of job safety procedures to protect their workers.
Accidents or injuries related to electrical work can occur anywhere, whether inside private residences, factories or even during power line repairs.
Skilled Trades
Grow Your Landscaping Business with Hardscaping
Pairing hardscaping with landscaping is a smart business move for landscape business owners.
The recent boom in hardscaping isn't just about aesthetics. There's also a sustainability component.
Credit
How Will Inflation Impact Your Small Business?
If you're concerned about how inflation impacts your business's credit and financing, it's important to first understand how they're connected.
As prices climb, you might have to borrow more to outbid your competitors for needed equipment or materials.
Skilled Trades
Coping with HVAC Equipment Shortage
Here's what is causing the ongoing HVAC supply chain trouble and how you and your techs can manage.
The HVAC equipment shortage could be a selling opportunity. Encourage customers to schedule more frequent maintenance and repairs, as they would have trouble replacing systems once they break.
Taxes
Independent Contractors Versus Employees
Protect yourself and your business by properly characterizing independent contractors versus employees.
It can be challenging for businesses to choose the correct classification when hiring workers, but it’s also essential to avoid paying stiff IRS penalties.
Skilled Trades
Boost Your HVAC Energy Efficiency Holistically
When you consider the entire structure and not just the HVAC elements, opportunity awaits.
A more comprehensive perspective can help shift your customers from a reactive mindset to a proactive mindset.
Planning
To Grow Your Customer Base, Think Local
Your relationship with the community matters. Here's how to get involved as a new business.
Educational programs show community members you want to help them succeed.
Cash Management
How You Can Benefit from Local Sourcing Your Supply Chain
Switching to local sourcing can help small businesses still affected by global supply chain issues.
While many businesses source their supplies internationally to save costs, this practice may actually be more costly.
Cash Management
How to Reduce Your Fleet Fuel Costs
By leveraging strategies across operations and budgeting, your fleet can thrive in any economy.
Your fleet drivers are your top line of defense against controllable fuel costs.
Skilled Trades
How Volunteer Plumbing Reaches Those in Need
Explore how volunteer plumbing can help make your local community and business shine.
Volunteering not only feels good on a personal level, but your company's commitment to volunteer plumbing can also offer some of the best marketing and PR opportunities.
Starting a Business
What to Know About Starting a Consultancy
Choosing your specialization, target audience and business structure are three of the first steps toward starting a consulting business.
Let your passion, know-how and familiarity with the marketplace guide you to a specialization that will offer value.
Skilled Trades
Electrical Contractor Software Helps Your Business
Here's how electrical contractor software can streamline and improve your business functions.
By skipping paper invoices, software can speed up when you get paid for projects and boost your cash flow.
Skilled Trades
HVAC Maintenance and Upgrades: Convincing Clients
When making the case for an HVAC upgrade, the key is tying it to long-term profits and success.
A newer HVAC system is less likely to break down, reducing the annual maintenance cost.
Skilled Trades
Sustainable Landscape Design and Rain Gardens
What are the environmental and economic benefits of rain gardens for landscape architects?
An efficient and environmentally sustainable rain garden requires the expertise of a professional landscape architect.
Cash Management
Forms of Payment Fraud and How to Prevent Them
Don't let fraud hurt your business. Protect your company by watching for these five common attacks.
Protect your business by verifying any payment requests from a vendor or customer that look unusual.
Skilled Trades
Grow Your Landscape Architect Business Year-Round
Landscape architecture businesses need to get creative during the off-season.
One of the key answers to how to grow a landscaping business is branching out into new markets and revenue streams.
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