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Home » Authors » Al Levi

Al Levi

Of The 7-Power Contractor, Al Levi specializes, as his Website says, in "Run Your Contracting Business With Less Stress and More Success." Through private workshops, on-site assessments, customized operating manuals, and staff training programs, Levi delivers the benefit of the experience he gained from years of operating a large family-run HVAC and plumbing business. Learn more by visiting www.7powercontractor.com. You may also contact Levi by e-mail at al@7powercontractor.com

 

 

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Creating Documents May Take Time, But It’s Not a Waste of Time for HVAC Contractors - The ACHR News

Creating Documents May Take Time, But It’s Not a Waste of Time for HVAC Contractors

Use well-written operating manuals to provide relief from the daily chaos of running a business
Al Levi
January 14, 2019
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When working with consulting clients, I take my operating manual templates that I’ve created at my own company, and I help owners tweak them to become their own. The lesson is that it’s easier to edit than to create.
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Make Time to Celebrate the Holidays at Work the Right Way

Al Levi
November 19, 2018
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How about finding extra time during the holidays to stop and enjoy the season as a team, let alone finding extra time to be available for fun and family time? Not likely. But it doesn't have to be this way.
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Heavy Is the Head That Wears the Crown, but You Are Responsible

Al Levi
March 26, 2018
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When you were a tech at someone else’s company, the customers loved you because you were the one tech who could actually fix things.
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Selling Power: Nature or Nurture!

Selling Power! is developing great communication skills that lead to the only kind of selling I teach — Ethical Selling Power!
Al Levi
November 27, 2017
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Improving sales goes a whole lot better when you’re prepared with a plan. To make quality sales, you need a documented, systematic approach and practice to be successful.
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Sales Coaching Power: Rethinking Rewards and Consequences

Carrots and sticks can and will work
Al Levi
October 30, 2017
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I’ve preached throughout the years that having objective standards, clear communicated goals, and known and practiced policies and procedures for everyone at the company is the best path for being fair. As people, we all want to feel we’ve been treated fairly, regardless if we’re getting a carrot or the stick as a reward or as a consequence.
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Al Levi

What’s in a Name? Possibly Everything

The power of building a brand
Al Levi
October 2, 2017
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My first marketing guru was Leo Baron. He taught me the ins and outs of marketing while I was still in my 20s. I was lucky to have access to such a proven marketing genius at such a young age. He had “street cred” from working with some of the top companies in the greater New York area. It was only because he and my dad had been boyhood friends that he decided to do my father a favor and mentor me.
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Al Levi

How is Staffing a Company Like Filling a Bathtub?

Don’t leave your drain unplugged
Al Levi
September 4, 2017
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Not being focused on actively retaining staff takes an awful toll on the company because it costs a lot of time, money, and energy to always be replacing people, especially really good people.
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Al Levi

Operating Power: The First Step to a System-based HVACR Company

It's the best thing you can do for your company
Al Levi
May 22, 2017
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You can’t operate your company effectively if it’s run on talking or, just as badly, run by issuing one-way memos. One-way memos are the type you plaster all over the place, like: “Clean up the bathroom. Your mother doesn’t work here.” Only one question left, “Is this form of running your company working?” The answer is: probably not.
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Planning Power: Stopping the Insanity

Work on the right thing at the right time
Al Levi
April 24, 2017
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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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The 7-Power Contractor Approach to Mastering Your Business

The recipe for success
Al Levi
March 27, 2017
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What I discovered when implementing systems in my family’s plumbing, heating, and cooling business was that there weren’t really a million things to master. There were just seven. Seven “power” concepts that enabled me and my two brothers, the third generation in the company, to run it with a lot less stress and a whole lot more success.
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