The NFL Pro Bowl team is made up of Peyton Manning, Adrian Peterson, and Ray Lewis. The HVACR Pro Bowl team is made up of Jim Whitescarver, Rich Morgan, Brian Otte, John Cloutier, and Marshall Putman. Becoming a Pro Bowl player means being the best of the best by helping build and maintain a winning tradition. That's why The NEWS’ Best Contractors to Work For winners are Pro Bowl players.
The convenience of earning a college degree online has been a popular lure for many. For some, the convenience of obtaining a degree online immediately following high school or vocational school has been a natural progression. For others, using the Internet to start or complete a degree after being in the business world has opened up new opportunities.
“Dang it! Not again,” you are thinking, turning into the Water Berry Crest development for the sixth time this month. You cannot help but wonder what you are missing. You pull out your BlackBerry and dial up Steve, your buddy who is an electrician, and ask him about using his thermal imager.
Enough is enough, already! How often have you felt that way with regard to your sales team, sales processes, and selling performance? “I take the time to hire good people - testing, interviewing, reading, checking past performance - but where are the sales? Where is the money?”
Refrigeration technologies are a global endeavor whether it is for recreational purposes such as an ice rink or as a vital link in the food chain. Here, from three countries, are some of the newest developments.
John Cloutier is committed to excellence in every task he attempts. It is his unfailing commitment to his employees, however, that set him apart as winner of The NEWS’ Best Contractor to Work For contest in the Canadian region.
Marshall Putman served for four years in the U.S. Navy including plying the inland jungle waterways of Vietnam aboard a minesweeping gunboat. “That’s when I learned about commitment,” he says today. “And I brought that with me” at the time of the formation of Pro-Air Services Inc. in 1995.
While working with HVAC contractor clients, I have found five areas of consistent concern. Some of these areas of concern are handled well by some contractors, but even the true essentials of successfully dealing with these concerns are often misunderstood or glossed over.
HVACR businesses, whether they are manufacturers, distributors, or contractors, need to do a better job promoting HVACR as a career. At least that is the majority opinion of a group of 114 Ferris State University (FSU) HVACR program students who recently participated in a NEWS survey.
As a self-described “troubled youth” in New York, Rich Morgan never dreamed that 20 years later, he would own a thriving HVAC contracting company whose staff would nominate him for The NEWS’ Best Contractor To Work For contest. Employees at Magic Touch Mechanical couldn’t say enough good things about him.
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