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7 business-building ideas

The Plumbing Marketing Toolbox is a free app available for plumbers on either an Android or Apple device.

Matt Michel

June 24, 2016

Market your company with gift certificates, coloring books and airline miles.

Strategies for increasing sales and loyalty

Many crucial factors exist when it comes to building trust and a good client relationship.

Kenny Chapman

June 24, 2016

Building trust with homeowners.

Installing check valves in a recirculation system

The direction of flow.

Julius Ballanco P.E., CPD

June 24, 2016

One plumbing contractor commented that most plumbers don’t know how and where to install check valves.

Division or divisiveness with service and install work

Some companies like to distinguish between small install and big install.

Al Levi

June 24, 2016

Pitting service and install against each other is bad for business.

Don’t your clients deserve the best job rather than the fastest?

: It’s about time.

Dan Holohan

June 24, 2016

We’d go into old houses and apartment buildings and look at problem jobs, especially those of the steam variety.

A 2016 housing boom?

Such positive overall economic activity is creating a shortage of construction workers and those in affiliated trades.

Morris Beschloss

June 17, 2016

Glut of industrial commodities continues.

10 rules for truck wraps

The greatest advertising tool available to any plumbing company is the company’s fleet of vehicles.

Matt Michel

May 26, 2016

The greatest advertising tool available to any plumbing company is the company’s fleet of vehicles. With vehicle wrapping technology, a wealth of possibilities is available to any company. Here are 10 rules to get the most from your wraps.

Diversify your business

More than 99% of U.S. business are considered small — defined by the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Office of Advocacy as having fewer than 500 employees.

May 26, 2016

Adding services for growth.

Don't play the victim card when business falls off

I guess I could’ve gone “victim” and sued the contractor who installed the fire extinguisher and the fire extinguisher company for not softening the edges of said unit.