This year’s top 10 articles are a true reflection of 2022’s economic uncertainty and your pragmatism as portable sanitarians. Your article choices reflect a focus on customer education and proactive O&M to ease economic woes. Peruse this year’s most-read articles and see what insights you glean. Happy holidays!
1. Keeping Portable Sanitation Out of the Family
The owners of Alabama’s HHH Sanitation love their families — but won’t hire them.
2. Tips for Winterizing Your Vacuum Truck
We share secrets to extending the life of tanks and explain how to transition trucks from summer to winter.
3. Is It Time For a Fuel Surcharge?
Don’t let rising diesel and gas prices due to inflation woes, oil production interruptions and chaos in the world upend your profitability.
4. 6 Tips for Announcing a Price Increase to Your Customers
Many businesses boast about their low prices, or their efforts to make their services as affordable as possible. In some situations, though, companies have little choice but to raise their rates. This may be necessary to keep up with inflation, to account for higher labor or supply costs, or simply to keep pace with the industry.
5. How to Adjust Pricing to Accommodate Inflation
Business owners need to monitor costs right now, and price adjustment is one way to do that. But be careful about how you approach it and don’t let it be your only strategy.
6. Providing Uniformed Portable Sanitation Builds Business Identity
For Georgia’s Express Disposal, a clean and professional image sells the services.
7. 6 Mistakes PROs Make When Selling Their Business
If you’ve decided it’s time to move on from your portable sanitation company, be sure you’re not making any of these miscues that can affect how much value you get out of a sale.
8. Is Your Portable Sanitation Business Prepared for a Recession?
With financial uncertainty on the horizon, take steps now to protect your business assets and keep the lights on.
9. Special Event Portable Sanitation Is a Hidden Opportunity for Fun
For Don and Bonnie Larson of North Dakota’s D&B Portables, work sometimes also provides vacation experiences.
10. Managing Your Portable Restroom Operation During Inflation
Here are some tips to consider for getting your company through this period of price uncertainty.
