Entries Tagged Business Management

Material and equipment prices are going bananas. Skyrocketing. Haywire. Wacko. Whatever word you prefer, it’s out of control with no end in...

Many companies invest heavily to improve the customer experience but sideline employees who are responsible for delivering that experience. What some business...

Matt Frazier has operated portable restroom rental and service businesses in the small town of Wellfleet, Massachusetts on Cape Cod for almost...

Gretchen Menard’s portable sanitation career has taken a few twists and turns since she left her job as a waitress and entered...

Question: Our fall special event season will be busier than usual since spring events have been rescheduled to the fall as well. With...

Recently I was reminded of a series of day-in-the-life videos we produced a decade ago with Gretchen Menard, a portable restroom contractor...

You've heard the phrase, “time is money.” In a service industry, that is often true in a very literal way. We can...

Sometimes in the portable sanitation industry it can seem like blasphemy to say that busy is a bad thing. But most business...

A flashy, bright-red Ferrari Portofino will attract a lot of attention in a   parking lot. A shiny new Honda Accord? Probably...

The internet empowers small businesses to compete, communicate, and collaborate like never before. Sadly, there are also some significant downsides, not least...

Do you ever feel like there is way too much appreciation shown in your workplace? If you said no, you’re not alone....

Employers may not like to pay overtime, but not abiding by state and federal rules can land them in hot water. It...

How serious is labor and material management to your business? Serious enough to have a better process in place to account for...

There is a thing called “imposter syndrome.” It’s a persistent fear that you aren’t the expert everyone says you are. It’s the...