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Plumbing’s Hidden Miracle: Why Savvy Contractors are Betting on the Most Urgent Trade

From apprenticeship backlogs to modern training and evolving industry standards, plumbing is reshaping contractor business models

By Austin Keating

If you ask Nick Agentis what separates a successful plumbing business from the pack, he won’t start with fancy branding or the latest marketing hack. He’ll talk about urgency – and how few industries are as defined by the customer’s immediate, sometimes panicked need.

“Nobody says, ‘Oh yeah, I’m happy to call a plumber.’ Never happens,” Agentis, director of the plumbing vertical at Business Development Resources, told a recent room of contractors and business owners at the AHR Expo. “Nobody wants you – they need you.”

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