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If you have a skilled employee who seems like a good candidate to strike out on his or her own, try encouragement — especially if you don’t see a clear path up for that person.

Repeat business makes a contractor's life easier.

Do you ever look beyond the next quarter or next season when it comes to your business?

Small contracting firms can minimize or eliminate most pain points with a little creativity and, sometimes, outside help.

Tit-for-tat tariffs will have wide-ranging effects on the drilling industry, regardless of opinions on the current resident of the White House.

This time next year, citizens of Michigan will likely have the legal right to smoke marijuana. Employers here and in other states that haven’t already legalized it need to get ready.

The tools of the drilling trade have their own distinct heritage after generations of investment. Together, we can honor and memorialize that heritage.

March is typically a good traffic month for The Driller. But this March blasted through previous records — thanks to our online classifieds section.

Some things take a lot of planning to accomplish. In running a business, like running a marathon, contractors set goals, make plans and execute.

We recently got the results back from our latest email survey, and we found that more than six in 10 contracting firms either strongly agree or agree that the shortage of good help has limited the amount of work they can take on.