Survival Tips: Navigating Small-Business Ups And Downs

For three generations, Rhode Island Septic Services has utilized vastly improving onsite technology to provide customers with more efficient pumping and repair work.
Survival Tips: Navigating Small-Business Ups And Downs
Mike Sliney is shown with a 2014 Kenworth vacuum truck in front of the Rhode Island Septic Services office in Exeter, Rhode Island. (Photos by Sean D. Elliot)

Family-owned Rhode Island Septic Services (RISS) has seen three generations of boom and bust economic cycles since the company was founded in 1954. Owner and president Mike Sliney is weathering tough economic times in the state by diversifying his business into related...

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