Access to financing in 2025 has become one of the biggest hurdles for small and mid-sized service companies. Plumbing contractors in particular are finding themselves squeezed between rising material ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Detroit is home to many talented small business contractors, but too often, they face roadblocks that keep them from growing.

With the well-documented home renovation boom over the past couple years and the projected increase in construction projects as reported by the Associated General Contractors of America, artisan ...

Whitmer, a Democrat, has floated a $3 billion mix of some unspecified spending cuts and higher business taxes to address the ...

Amy Nichol Smith spent more than 20 years working as a journalist for TV and newspapers before transitioning to software and hardware product reviews for consumers and small businesses. She has been ...