The strange thing about working in the home comfort industry is that you are never able to get too comfortable. This is an industry of unavoidable weather-driven peaks and valleys where extremes can go from a month that’s so busy you wonder why you don’t have more trucks to a pace so slow you start rationing sugar packets in the employee breakroom. Yes, that’s the nature of a business that runs hottest at its extremes and cold in all the times in between. But how cold will business go for you as the weather turns?
This thought is nothing new for most reading this, which is kind of the point. The best advice is repeated advice. As you may recall from some of the oldest advice around from the Book of Ecclesiastes: “There’s nothing new under the sun.”