Columnist Jim Olsztynski gives advice to those contractors who are in a belt-tightening mode these days.

Jim Olsztynski offers up some simple stress-relieving tips to help you make it through the taxing holiday season.

Jim Olsztynski tells us it's not what you say but how you say it when it comes to correcting employees.

Jim Olsztynski explains that it takes money to make money.

Jim Olstzynski offers up some more successful marketing principles.

Jim Olsztynski gives us six marketing basics that too many contractors ignore.

Jim Olsztynski reminds us that it takes more than mastery of a craft to run a successful business selling the output of that craft.

High school counselors everywhere advise students they have a better future as a third-rate paper shuffler than a craftsman, writes Jim Olsztynski.

It's hard to think of a more important business task of a drilling contractor than to develop a detailed picture of his costs of doing business, according to Jim Olsztynski.

How much profit you build into your prices is entirely up to you.