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Tips for Securing an Early Completion Bonus

Get five tips on how to help ensure that you’ll be getting your completion bonuses on bridge projects — new and rehab

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Your Plant’s Paint: Small Detail, Large Impact

When thinking about repairs for your water treatment plant, paint is not often a top priority — but it should be!

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Tips for Writing a Coatings Contractor Résumé

The résumé is of particular importance for coatings contractors and other paint and sealant technicians to highlight skills, past work, and future prospects.

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10 Tips to Successfully Grow Your Business

If you are the founder a small coatings company, growing your business is forever in your thoughts. How should you seek to attract a bigger network, and ultimately sign more contracts for your services? Here are 10 effective tips for expanding your business.

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From Victim to Victor: Harness Your Professional Power

To choose to give your power away at work or to hold on to it, you must be willing to take some responsibility for things. It’s your reality. Once you realize that you own a chunk of the responsibility in any situation, you can then own your power and begin to realize the control you have.

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Stop Leaking Marketing Spend

Marketing is a fundamental part of any successful contractor’s business, but all too often potential customers are getting lost at the last yard. This means that thousands of dollars are left on the table, when there are simple fixes that could bring that customer to the finish line.

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Insurance for Small Companies

You are finally making the big step. After 20 or more years in the business, you are hanging out your shingle and starting your new coatings consulting company