Business Boosters
Invest in Your Employees
By Cass Jacoby. Supporting your employees with ongoing training is the key to retaining your workforce throughout the labor shortage. In Season 3, Episode 42 of Roofing Road Trips, Heidi J. Ellsworth visits with Tom Biller of Tremco Roofing about how employee and contractor retention factor into the labor ...
Roof Sales 101: Things to Know Before You Start
By IKO. Everything you need to know about roof sales to start selling on the right foot. The lifeblood of the roofing industry are the salespeople who work to create leads and convert them into customers. It is always wise to brush up on new sales strategies and processes ...
What RSMeans Data Means
By LP Building Solutions. Understanding how construction costs are calculated via RSMeans and how you can leverage these insights for your business. Building professionals often turn to third party testing like RSMeans estimating handbook and online tools when selecting building materials or calculating construction costs, especially when it ...
3 Ways to Cutback Callbacks
By Sascho. Matt Risinger talks about why high-performance products truly matter. No one wants a callback, not the homeowner and especially not the contractor. Yet, this costly error is all too common. Matt Risinger learned about this after spending six months in the field working as a warranty ...
Repair Over Replacement is Key to Dealing with Material Shortages
By Cass Jacoby. All Points tells us how using leftover tiles and custom glazing is helping ease the strain of material supply shortages. In an episode of Roofing Road Trips, RCS President Heidi J. Ellsworth speaks with Jeff Littleton, the operations manager at All Points about what he is seeing ...
Why Successful Business Owners Don’t Do Everything by Themselves
By Cass Jacoby. It’s time to take off one of your many hats as a contractor and outsource the small stuff to the professionals. Heidi J. Ellsworth visits with partner development manager for Ruby, Steffney Jones, in a Roofing Road Trips episode. The two have a conversation about how outsourcing ...
Preventative Action is How you Ensure Cyber Security
By Cass Jacoby. Most roofers don’t know or recognize that their company is facing significant cyber liability. Learn about why you should check your level of cyber security insurance now rather than later. In Season 4, Episode 38 of the Roofing Road Trips Podcast Heidi J. Ellsworth meets ...
13 Ways to Optimize Your Hiring Practice
By Cass Jacoby. Learn key insights on how to attract and retain top talent. As a contractor, you know that hiring the right people can make or break your business. However, you also know that finding the perfect unicorn candidate is no small feat. This eBook from Podium gives ...
Reminder - It's Roof Fall Cleaning Time
By ICP Group. Follow this handy guide for talking to building owners about maintaining their roof. Fall is coming! And while building owners might already be doing their semi-annual cleaning, they might be missing a huge spot: their roof. We all know the importance of a properly maintained roof, and ...
CEO Scores a Perfect 100 on TRIA Manual Certification
By Cass Jacoby. Certification is the key to elevating the industry; we should all follow Michelle Kettering’s lead and never stop expanding our skills. TRIA Manual Certification is designed for entry-level and experienced roofers alike to expand their skills into tile. The certification covers all of the code ...
