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Social Media Connects Contractors with Clients

Turn your online networks into communities

January 23, 2017

Welcome the New Year by allowing social media to turn your clients into friends and followers who “like” and “share” your stories within your community and across the globe.

Innovative Products Receive Accolades

AHR Expo announces annual award winners

Joanna R. Turpin

January 16, 2017

The annual awards competition honors the most inventive and original products, systems, and technologies showcased at each year’s AHR Expo in 10 categories.

New Year’s Resolutions: Contractors Detail 2017 Goals

Contractors prepare new objectives and targets for the next calendar year

Nick Kostora

January 16, 2017

There are few traditions quite like creating a New Year’s resolution. Losing weight, eating better, spending more time with family — the ideas are endless. Statistics show that around 45 percent of Americans come up with some form of goal prior to the next calendar year.

SEO Is Not Dead

Search engine ranking is the ultimate form of inbound lead generation.

Frank Motola

January 16, 2017

What better way to attract potential customers for a business than to rank at the top of Google, Bing, and Yahoo for its products and services. Ranking organically in search engines is the ultimate form of inbound lead generation. Can you imagine how much new business could be generated if your business ranked on the top of Google for “air conditioning” or “heating?”

Whet Your HVACR Mobile App-etite

An inside look at some of apps available to HVAC contractors

Ron Rajecki

January 9, 2017

There are many apps that can help make contracting businesses run smoother and easier and can allow owners to offer added value to their customers.

Software Designed to Simplify HVACR Service

Service management software smooths workflow, enhances professionalism

Ron Rajecki

January 9, 2017

Service management software can help increase a contracting company’s productivity and professionalism and help contractors provide more value than ever to their customers.

151 Advisors, James Brehm to Merge IoT Consulting Capabilities

Will provide IoT industry insights, marketing, branding, product development services

November 8, 2016

151 Advisors, a strategic consulting firm specializing in mobility, Internet of Things (IoT), smart cities, security, and cloud-based technologies, and James Brehm & Associates (JB&A), an IoT market intelligence and consulting firm, have entered into a definitive agreement to merge.

Satisfied Customers Quickly Become Clients

The understated value of exceeding customers’ expectations

Stephen Dale

October 17, 2016

Are customers’ expectations higher today than they were 10 years ago? What about five years ago? What about two years ago? I’m sure you would agree that customers’ expectations have risen exponentially over the past years with the growth of information gathering, smartphones, and savvy consumers.

Comfort Institute Partners with Service Roundtable to Support HVAC Businesses

Comfort Institute now offers members complimentary membership in the Service Roundtable

October 14, 2016

Comfort Institute and Service Roundtable announced a strategic partnership between the two organizations to provide HVAC contractors with a one-stop-shop for all business support needs including training, marketing support, industry-related discounts, and professional networking.

How to Effectively Manage Salespeople

Your goal is to increase sales, not calls or leads

Darrell Sterling

September 19, 2016

Your sales team can quickly lose its creativity if you turn them into little robots who only track the numbers these CRM programs are looking for. If your real goal is to increase sales, there are better ways to manage your sales team.