Here's how the subject of last month's column staved off Chapter 7 and turned his business around.

Best Of Blau Reprinted September 1996. PHC contractors continually buy themselves jobs at prevailing rates.

It's more than an economic downturn that plagues PHC service companies.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts

Creatures of habit resist change even when it's in their own best interest.

A sabbatical is a tradition in the academic world -- why not for hard-working plumbing pros?

Timely Profit & Loss statements are needed to keep your company from crashing.

If a contractor offers a price and the customer accepts, the price is fair, provided there is no coercion.

Our industry has too many contractors working at minimum wage levels - and yet too many consumers think we charge too much.

It's OK to operate as a one-man shop - just don't expect to sell the business.