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Al Levi has been helping businesses solve problems, turn greater profits, and help owners get their lives and free time back for more than 10 years. This is all based on his 25-year career at his family-owned and -operated contracting business. To discover more, visit www.appleseedbusiness.com.

Writing stuff that gets read – Part 2

Follow these tips and watch how your writing can positively affect your sales and marketing.
May 27, 2013

Follow these tips and watch how your writing can positively affect your sales and marketing. 


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Writing stuff that gets read – Part 1

Writing in general didn’t come easy to me when I first started.
May 1, 2013

Writing in general didn’t come easy to me when I first started. And I certainly don’t think I’ve mastered it at this point in my life. Honestly, I was a mechanical engineer with a degree who never worked a day in his life as an engineer.


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Taking the surprise out of staffing issues - Part 1

It’s what I’ve called through the years, “The 5 o’clock knock.”
March 25, 2013
Picture this: It’s late in the day. You’ve finally made it back to your office after another crazy day.
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Who’s judging my work and based on what?

Who is really my boss and what the heck are they judging me on?
February 22, 2013

This is one of the most common complaints I hear in my multiple one-to-one private interviews with staff when I make my first onsite visit to a new consulting client’s shop.


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10 Ways to Make Your Next Phone System Great

January 28, 2013
It’s smart to start compiling a MUST HAVE and WANT list for your next phone system as well as locating a new service company to sell it to you, install it and service it going forward. Phones like computers are the lifeblood to a service company.
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Money from the Scrap Heap

January 14, 2013
A customer wrote me an email awhile back inquiring about what my family did with the scrap metal from jobsites and he wanted to know what other companies I work with do as well.
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Behavior in the New Social Media World

November 28, 2012
“Do something good for someone and they’ll tell 10 people. Do something bad to someone and they’ll tell a 100 people.”
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More Ways To Prevent Employees From Stealing Your Calls

March 15, 2011
In the first part of this blog (“Can Your Employees Be Stealing Your Calls?”) that ran on Feb. 20, I gave you the dire scenario of your own employees siphoning
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