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5 Shockingly-Effective Electrician Websites
Don’t assume that clients don’t care if the electricians they’re considering have bad websites. The modern customer is going to find their electrician through the internet. If you want to be the...
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Top Tips to Help Your Help Desk
Running an IT help desk? Need some help? We’re here for you with a roundup of tips and tricks designed to make your life easier and more efficient. Not-incidentally, we’ll make your customers happier...
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5 Pest Control Websites that Show You How It’s Done
Good for you if you’ve decided to build a website to advertise your pest control business. A website is absolutely essential to reaching modern customers, and it’s a great way to expand even booming...
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5 Snazzy Maid Service Websites that Show You How It’s Done
Many people go looking for their maid services online. Is your website competitive with all the others in your area? If you’re working on only your first or second website, you may not really be sure....
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Quiz: What Does Your Business Do Over the Winter?
Frozen is a great movie, but a rotten condition for a lot of outdoor and indoor work. Yes, you can paint indoors when it’s -40 outside, but if you keep the windows closed your lungs will have words...
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Phoning it In
You either love it or you hate it: the telephone. Great Canadian invention, lifeline for teenagers, nemesis of harried workers everywhere, the telephone can none the less be a lifeline to sales, so...
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5 Wildly Different Lawn Care Sites to Learn From
We don’t have to tell you that lawn care is a competitive business. You probably also know that most of the competition is done before the customer even contacts you; it’s online, in flyers and...
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Giving Your Lawn Care Business a Makeover
You know what you want to do, but you’ve changed your mind about who you want to do it for. Or maybe you’ve decided that the rockabilly persona that seemed so right for you at 25 needs to be updated,...
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Passive Income for Hard-Working Pros
You’ve probably heard of “Passive Income” aka “money for nothing.” Is it real? Is it honest? Is it something that you can do? The answer to all of these questions is the same: Yes. Despite what some...
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Web Design Tips for the Computer Repair Business
It`s a common problem; you know how to do your job, but when it comes to marketing you can do it if you have to, but you secretly wish the Marketing Fairy would come and overnight build you an...
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You’ve got the look: uniforms, tees, or civvies, what should your team wear?
It’s one thing to have a great team; it’s another to broadcast your professionalism to everyone who sees them. There are classic ways of doing this and as much as we all love a rebel, they work. Truck...
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Customer Loyalty Programs: Right for You, Right for Your Customers
Coupons-with-purchase, loyalty cards, customer apps: they’re all ways to offer your clients a little bonus in return for their repeated business. Are they right for your business? If so, which one? It...
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Marketing Secrets for Computer Repair Shops
You know what you’re doing when it’s you and the hardware. Or even the software (why doesn’t everyone just use Linux, you ask yourself constantly, but if they did you’d be starving for jobs). But when...
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Acts of Integrity: How Contractors and Handymen Land Lifetime Customers
Everyone likes to say that they run an honest business, but sometimes customers just don’t see it that way. Among field service professionals, contractors are probably viewed with the most suspicion...
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The Hard Lessons We’ve Learned in the Trenches of Social Media
There seems to be some kind of collective fantasy about what social media means to the modern business, especially the ones that are still call their work labor. Everyone is told to have a social...
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Modernizing with Maps—Powering Your Business with Geolocation
Managing a team in the field is tough, but it doesn’t have to be as tough as it used to be. Thanks to some exciting new changes in technology, you can manage your team more precisely than ever before....
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Pool Service: Milking the Off-Season
Pool service is a particularly-seasonal field, so it’s necessary to be as competitive as possible the rest of the year round. Some pool service owners have secondary businesses to run in the winter,...
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A Customer Service Checklist: The Key to a Strong Reputation
Every business wants to be known for the quality of their service. Word of mouth is the strongest force in advertising, and customers who remember being treated well are the most loyal out there. With...
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Could You Go 100% Mobile? Modern Field Service without a Storefront
Today, we’re asking a question that wouldn’t have even made sense only a decade ago. Is it possible to run a field service without a physical storefront? The technology now exists that would allow...
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The Skinny on Mobile Card Scanners: Are They Safe and Should You be Using Them?
Mobile card scanners are one of the biggest innovations to hit field services in quite a long time. Anyone who has spent time managing these kinds of outfits can tell you that getting paid...
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