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Home » My Two Cents

Articles Tagged with ''My Two Cents''

Al Levi

Planning Power: Stopping the Insanity

Work on the right thing at the right time
Al Levi
April 24, 2017
How do you know what’s the right thing to work on at the right time? You need to create a master project list. This is a giant list of all the projects and habits you need to work on at your company. Typically, when I do this work with clients, the first master project list is somewhere between 100-150 things.
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Mike Agugliaro

One Simple Way to Make Better, Faster Decisions in Your Business

Create a set of core values to live and breathe by
Mike Agugliaro
Mike Agugliaro
April 3, 2017
Making decisions as a business owner is one of the most important things you’ll do, so it’s imperative that you step up and learn to make better decisions faster and have the confidence that those decisions will serve your company.
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Bill Brown

Using Data to Prioritize Your Most Profitable Calls

Decide which leads are most important
Bill Brown
Bill Brown
March 20, 2017
This article covers important parts of the process for service calls, specifically the beginning and the end.
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Customer Service

HVAC Contracting: The Four Stages of Customer Service

Mike Agugliaro
Mike Agugliaro
March 13, 2017
There are four stages of customer service. Each stage corresponds to a level of service you provide your customers. Interesting to note is that each stage also corresponds to a different level of profitability generated by your business.
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Butch Welsch

The Recipe for Success: Consistency, Honesty, and Trustworthiness

My message is rather simple
Butch Welsch
Butch Welsch
January 30, 2017
Putting out false and/or misleading advertising may show some short-term benefits to your company, but, in the long run, you are damaging both yourself and the industry.
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The Speech President Donald Trump Should Give

For too long we’ve gotten away from what made America great
Matt Michel
Matt Michel
January 23, 2017
If we’re going to make America great again; if we’re going to keep jobs here, we have got to teach people trades again. And we will. We will. Send your kids to trade school. Teach them a trade. If they want to go on to get a four-year degree, they can. They can pay for it with the money they earned in their trade.
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Steve Schmidt

This Year’s Resolution — No More Resolutions

My only resolution is to never make another resolution
Steve Schmidt
January 16, 2017
If we are not trying to do our jobs to the best of our ability at all times, then exactly what are we doing? If you do have established goals in your company or goals that are set before you, are you actually trying as hard as you can to reach those goals and then sitting back and coasting for the rest of the month? Personally, I don’t see this as an option.
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Mike Agugliaro

One Simple Way to Make More Money without Raising Prices

Mike Agugliaro
Mike Agugliaro
December 26, 2016
what if there was a way to make more money in your ACHR business without having to spend money or raise prices?
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Training Your HVAC Technicians

Jaki Redden
Jaki Redden
December 19, 2016
Hiring a new HVAC technician can be extremely difficult, because techs must be equipped with many skills to adequately complete the job and satisfy customers. The problem may lie in the systems you have setup for new hires.
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Rodney Koop

How to Become an HVACR Expert

RODNEY KOOP
Rodney Koop
December 12, 2016

Expertise can only come from experience. You must work in or on something long enough to learn more than the average person.


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