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Working Smarter: How To Become Highly Profitable

Jim Paluch explains how "working smarter" is helping contractor members of A Better Way Community maintain double-digit profit margins in today's tough climate.

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Gregg Wartgow
Jan 3, 2011
JP Horizons Inc.

Jim Paluch is here to kick off a four-part series on planning for profit, explaining how "working smarter" is helping contractor members of A Better Way Community maintain double-digit profit margins in today's tough climate.


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