A new web service, ContractorText, has been launched to provide contractors with a mass text messaging service designed to streamline business communications.
Now that you are basking in what hopefully has been several profitable months, I’m here to give a reality check. We don’t want to give away in the last three or four months of the year all that we worked so hard to earn.
Intended for HVAC company owners, “Mr. HVAC’s Operations Manual” is said to be everything an owner needs to operate and manage a business. It includes detailed training materials, federal compliance guides, policies, procedures, forms, templates, and pricing information specific to a residential and light commercial HVAC company.
Instead of attempting to solve the problem that is your competition, what if there was a way for you to completely remove the competition from the equation?
Most HVAC contractors get into the heating and cooling business because they are highly interested in the process, mechanically gifted, or feel it is a great way to make a buck. But, as many find out after opening their doors, it takes a lot more than technical skills and desire to run a successful business.
A lot of small businesses try to be “Jacks of all trades” without mastering any. I am not saying that you cannot have more than one trade in your business. Where I see the problem is when small businesses try to do too much within the same trade.
“In one ear and out the other,” said a construction supervisor in a major real estate development company. “I would say to this one guy over and over again, ‘The details really matter.’ He was nodding his head, but I couldn’t tell if he was nodding to me or nodding with the music he was listening to. So finally I started making him take notes whenever I talked to him.”
Mitsubishi Electric Cooling & Heating has restructured its four national sales zones into five business units (BUs), including a newly created Southwest BU. To support the new sales structure, Mitsubishi Electric has appointed five managers to lead the business units.
Leadership Access Institute grants master facilitator certification; HVAC Excellence confers title of certified master HVACR educator; ACCA opens registration for inaugural Hydronics Roundtable; AHRI’s Joseph Mattingly, general counsel and secretary, announces his retirement; LonMark adds to its North American certified professional testing sites.
