For large portable sanitations companies like Texas Outhouse of Houston, the coronavirus has had a Swiss cheese-like effect. Revenues have been boosted...
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Houston PRO Doubles Down on Safety … and Wins National Recognition
Portable sanitation companies and their crews know safety is important. But unfortunately, this critical aspect of employee training is not always top-of-mind...
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When Should a PRO Request Help From an Expert?
Question: What specific areas of their business could PROs outsource to others?
Answer: We all cannot be experts in every aspect that is required to...
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Don’t Fall Into the Cost-Cutting Trap
When we meet, there is nothing us tradespeople talk about more than second-rate firms that undercut the prices on their services. It...
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Business Insurance Shopping Tips
Business insurance is a complicated subject for even veteran business owners. Its complexity gets exacerbated because we don’t trade in it every...
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Equipment Financing in the ‘New Normal’
As we continue to navigate the COVID-19 pandemic landscape, it seems as if no market has endured without its fair share of...
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How to Effectively Influence Customers When Logic Fails
We’ve been doing quite a bit of reading on decision-making. It turns out that logic and facts aren’t always the best ways...
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Customers Expect a Variety of Payment Options
Do you accept Bitcoin? Probably not.
Few septic services companies take groundbreaking forms of currency, and that’s OK. However, customers do expect various payment options. If...
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An Ever-Evolving Company is a Successful Company
How long have you been in business? Twenty years? Perhaps 40 years or more? Apparently, you’re doing something right then.
Think back to...
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Don’t Succumb to Imposter Syndrome
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...
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Turn Website Views Into Customers
A lot changed in 2020. But one of the things that remained constant is the need for a well-optimized, high-converting website.
How does...
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Reach New Customers Through Quality Online Reviews
It used to be that the only advertising methods for service-based businesses were local newspaper slots, radio commercials, or, if you had...
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Survey Shows Many Contractors Successfully Navigating Challenges of the Pandemic
As we head into 2021 and leave behind 2020, a year many are ready to bid farewell to, we look ahead in...
Editorial
The Partners at This Canadian Portable Sanitation Company Have Found Sweet Success
It’s been 10 years since Shawn Hiscott and two business partners took ownership of Honey Huts Portables, a restroom company in Dartmouth,...




















