Business Boosters
Easing Labor Shortages With Roof Edge Measurement Technology
By Cass Jacoby, RCS Reporter. The Falcon Roof Measurement Tool is revolutionizing the industry. Brad Van Dam, VP of sales for MTL Holdings, the parent company of Metal-Era and Hickman Edge Systems meets with RCS President Heidi J. Ellsworth for a Roofing Road Trips episode to talk about the release ...
Automating Building Codes
By Karen Edwards, RCS COO. Improving accuracy, protecting profits and eliminating friction between contractors and adjusters. OneClick Code’s story is one we hear often in the roofing industry — a contractor became frustrated with a poor-performing product, or in this case, a broken system, so they took the matter ...
6 Easy Ways to Reduce Customer Callbacks
By Equipter. Implement these best practices to prevent callbacks from frustrated customers. The common callback on a finished roofing job ends up costing your company more than money. Too many callbacks can damage your reputation as a professional roofing contractor and eventually destroy your business. Reduce the do-overs. Use these ...
Is Your Project Manager a Professional Errand Boy?
By Breakthrough Academy. Learn from business coach, Paul Atherton, about how to tell if your project manager is an overpaid errand boy. In the world of contracting, we find that anyone can say they are a project manager, but few fit the definition of what project managers actually are. We recently spoke ...
9 Trends Home Improvement Industry Leaders Are Talking About
By Leap. What we learned from the customer advisory board Q1 meeting. Recognizing that there is a growing need for business owners to collaborate and share what they are working on within their organizations, Leap gathers the industry’s top leaders in the home improvement space to meet for their ...
How to Find Allies Who Will Help You Up Your Door-to-Door Sales Game
By Sales Transformation Group. Roof Warrior Live offers a competition-free space to improve your sales by learning from contractors across the country. Imagine a place where successful roofing companies can come together to share what they are doing to improve their door-to-door sales. A space where there is no ...
The Key to Safety is Culture
By Cass Jacoby, RCS Reporter. Tremco WTI talks about how leading their safety program “heart first” has taken their performance to the highest of standards RCS President Heidi J. Ellsworth speaks with Ro Lewis, Tony Kotnik, Morgan Minter and Sarah Panter from Tremco WTI in a Roofing Road Trips ...
Building Long-term Relationships With Your Customers
By Cass Jacoby, RCS Reporter. Despite being a great way to garner referrals and create a dependable year-round income, contractors often forget about residential service programs. Here is why you shouldn’t. Darci Kunard from Franklin International/Titebond sat down with Heidi J. Ellsworth in Season 3, Episode 29 of Roofing ...
Case Study: How Big Fish Contracting Company Grew Despite COVID
By Cass Jacoby, RCS Reporter. The Big Fish Contracting Company owner Benjamin Fisher was able to scale his business with the help of Sales Transformation Group. “My biggest pain point was being able to onboard and get sales guys up to speed faster rather than just following me around ...
Everything you Need to Know About Emotional Advertising
By Podium. Learn how to craft advertisements that connect with your audience on a whole new level. Emotional advertising harnesses the power of emotions to encourage customers to use your product or service. In this article, Podium teaches you how to develop emotional marketing strategies that will help increase sales ...
