In an era of workforce shortages among the trades, a young drain cleaning company in Glenview, Illinois, is building out its crew...
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How to Announce a Price Increase to Customers
Many businesses boast about their low prices, or their efforts to make their services as affordable as possible. In some situations, though,...
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9 Reasons For Your Business to Try Chatbots
Running a business is hard.
That’s the understatement of the year, huh? But the truth is, in some ways, running a business is harder than...
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Avoid These 6 Costly Business Errors
Nobody likes to waste money, least of all small-business owners.
As the end of the year approaches, and as business owners take a...
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Building Your Company’s Marketing Plan
Good marketing explains what businesses are, what they do, what they offer and why customers should go with them. Marketing helps brands attract...
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Nailing the Business Basics Vital to Marketing Success
When you think about marketing, you likely think of ads, truck wraps, social media, Google posts, your website, and other things of...
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Effective Customer Service Starts by Following the Golden Rule
When Scarlett hung up the phone, she was close to tears. Even more unexpectedly, so was the customer service representative on the...
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Angry, Irrational, and Empowered: Navigating Customer Service in the Internet Age
My strangest customer service story didn’t involve a customer at all. It was a customer’s neighbor. We’ll call him Mr. Neighbor.
Our customer...
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Getting More Social
Everyone has an opinion on social media. You either love it or hate it, there doesn’t seem to be a happy medium.
I...









