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Good team members can bring new ideas and motivate other employees to work hard. As a business grows, a very important decision it faces is whether to hire employees or outsource tasks and ...

One major struggle that most contractors face is an ongoing challenge of deciding how to categorize the workers they hire. Should they be deemed employees or contractors? Unfortunately, the answer to ...

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If you’ve always wanted to start a general contractor business in Florida, now is an excellent time to do so. As The Apopka Voice reported, Florida is one of the nation’s fastest-growing states, with ...

Expanding a contracting business into a new state provides challenges and opportunities for plumbers and hydronic heating professionals. These unfamiliar markets could lead to larger customer pools ...

Today, a one-person concrete contractor has access to more sophisticated business technology than the multi-country construction conglomerate had not that many years ago. And the largest concrete ...