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Want to Keep Your Techs – Do Some Business Planning!
Let’s assume you are ABC Contracting Company and John the tech has worked for you for ten years. He does an above average job, seldom complains and shows up to work every day. Everything seemed fine until you walked into the office this past Monday to find a voice message on your machine from John saying he had taken another job across town for $.50/hour more than you are paying him.
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Why Is Flat
Rate Pricing Going to Become The Standard of the industry?
Flat rate pricing has been the buzz of
the trades industry for a lot of years. Few contractors are
without an opinion when it comes to flat rate pricing.
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Is your Office Harmful
toward the Environment? Keep your Water Dispenser and Cooler
without Wasting Energy at the Workplace.
What many people don’t know is that
water coolers that are not specifically made with
energy-saving qualifications can create an unnecessary waste
of electrical power and costs.
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The
Correct Shower Accessories will Complete your Shower and
Purify your Water--This Guide can help you Decide Which is
Right for you!
Chlorine is used to eliminate
bacteria and is used to purify water nationwide, but what you
might not know is that this chlorine is actually harmful to
your health in the long term.
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Contractors Insurance Renewal Checklist.
Provided is an informative report regarding
Contractors Insurance. Every contractor should read this
report before purchasing or renewing their general liability
policy.
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Be Careful of that Big Job, It Can Put
You Out of Business!
You submit the bid and wait. The day finally comes and the winners are announced. You got the job! There is joy in the kingdom.
You order the equipment/materials from your supplier and in a few short weeks the job begins with nearly every tech working full time on project. Before you know it it’s payroll time.
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Service
Technician Skill Classification.
Classification of technician’s skill
levels can save a service company big money, by sending the
right technician out to the right service call. As most
service companies try to organize their service operation many
fall short, more than 92% of them do not make the grade.
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The
Alternative to RFID’s Incomplete Success Optical technology
picks up where RFID leaves off.
For
years, the material handling and logistics communities have
looked toward RFID for solutions to track movable assets
indoors. Countless millions of dollars and years of
development invested in RFID have sometimes ended in
disappointment and frustration.
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What's
in a (heating and cooling) job?
Refrigeration, heating, and cooling jobs
are some of the most stable career options in the U.S. market
economy. This may seem surprising – every other day, a
certain kind of doomsday economics article appears in the
business section of a local newspaper.
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Venting
Today Part One
The days of the old
galvanized flue pipe vented into a masonry chimney lined or
unlined are quickly fading away. It will not be long that even
Type “B” double wall gas vent will be a thing of the past.
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Venting
Today Part Two
With this
continuing discussion on venting of Modulating/Condensing
equipment it is once again not the purpose of this article to
define exact installation requirements. The attempt here is to
address some typical types of requirements for venting this
equipment.
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Under-Billing is Killing
Your Service Department’s Profit
I am going to begin with
a statement you may not believe but here it is. The average
service tech is under-billing the customer, for work that was
actually performed, by anywhere from $10 to $30 per
hour.
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Too
Small For Supply Chain Management?
For the past ten to
fifteen years, you may have read about Fortune 500 companies
undertaking Supply Chain Management (SCM) initiatives.
Business publications are constantly reporting on the
successes – the improved profitability, the reduction in
operating expense and the better utilization of
inventory.
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How
to get value from a Management Consultant.
Unlike many other
outside services, management consulting is distinguished by
qualities that appear less tangible -- and are therefore more
difficult to assess up-front. Usually the fee must be set
before the consultant's assignment begins. So how can a
value-conscious manager make sure the company gets the
consulting service, support and results that it's paying
for?
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