American Liquid Waste Magazine

Summer is practically here! What that means in the liquid waste industry is that the work obviously still must go on, even though many of your employees might have their head in the summer clouds! Septic systems still need to get cleaned and repaired, but everyone should have a day for some summertime enjoyment with [...]

One of the biggest issues many liquid waste companies face is hiring and keeping good crew members. You would think that there would be many qualified candidates clamoring for jobs in the industrial sector, but that’s just not the case. You can sometimes get a sense of a person just by talking to them for [...]

Insurance costs are a sore subject all around these days. When you run a large or small septic company, it’s probably on your mind even more so. You want to be able to offer high quality insurance to your employees at a fair cost to your bottom line and for their benefit as well. The [...]

Sheryn Bates of Liquid Waste Management Houston is a champion for her employees. She says that one of the best ways to boost efficiency among your staff is to simply hire the right people in the first place. Obviously, from a management standpoint that’s the way to go, but when you have a large staff [...]

Payroll for a construction industry company should be a special consideration for management and ownership. The “boots on the ground” are much more difficult to find within the industry – the finite number of properly bonded and insured employees with the proper experience limit the amount of turnover that any company can handle. Management and [...]

Payroll issues are especially important to keep at bay in the septic industry because of the on-time nature of the industry. If you are a small business owner in the septic industry, you will need to monitor the payroll process on a regular basis in order to ensure the satisfaction of your employees, and as [...]

Companies benefit in many ways from a proper relationship with an insurance company; however, having good insurance is especially important to owners of pumpers and septic contractors. The potential downside that insurance covers for this industry is well worth the premium levied, and the protection given can save a business. Below are a few of [...]

Contractors have a unique opportunity to participate in the new economy that is rising out of the ashes of the 2008 housing crisis. Housing starts have completely recovered from that time, and well-placed contractors are taking full advantage of that fact. How do you leverage your current connections and information to get your piece of [...]

Most everyone that starts a business begins with a vision, a mental picture of where you are when starting and, more importantly, what you expect your business to develop into and where you want to be at some point in the future. Projecting into the future is based on your aspirations and the long-term business [...]

Almost everyone has a Smartphone these days, and savvy business owners know how to take advantage of their mobiles in order to advance their business interests. When it comes to “apps” that can be downloaded, however, there are literally millions, with billions of people downloading them, and so it gets confusing trying to determine which [...]