Business Boosters
Job-cost reviews should improve the next tender
By John Kenney, Cotney Consulting Group. An effective job-cost review turns a financial result into useful operating information. A roofing contractor can complete a project, issue the final application for payment and close the file without ever fully understanding what the work actually taught the business. That is a missed ...
How roofing contractors can grow their business with mountain resort roofing projects
By DaVinci Roofscapes. Composite slate and shake roofing can help turn harsh mountain conditions into premium project opportunities. From Colorado to West Virginia to North Carolina, mountain resort owners have a difficult roofing problem. They need roofs that protect high-value lodging properties. They also need roofs that look right in mountain settings. ...
Building stronger businesses through changing markets
By Jesse Sanchez. Stan Bastek shares how training, resilient products and industry connections can help contractors prepare for changing market conditions. At the Florida Roofing and Sheet Metal Contractors Association (FRSA) Expo, Atlas Roofing Corporation brought more than products to the show floor. The company used the event as an ...
A year of leadership lessons
By The Coffee Shops®. An upcoming conversation invites women leaders to reflect on their growth and identify priorities for the year ahead. Leadership growth often begins with an honest conversation. In the upcoming HERizon peer group forum, participants will look back on their experiences over the past year and ...
Start your AI strategy with the problem you need to solve
By Heidi J. Ellsworth Roofing businesses can get more value from AI by defining a measurable business challenge before choosing a platform. In my ongoing conversations with Brian Behe, CTO of RIIG Technology, artificial intelligence continues to generate discussion across the roofing industry. Contractors are exploring how it can help their teams ...
Retention begins with how the business is managed
By John Kenney, Cotney Consulting Group. Retention does not begin when an employee submits a resignation. It begins with the way the business is managed every day. Roofing contractors often discuss workforce retention in terms of pay, benefits and recruitment. Those factors matter, but retention is also shaped by ...
Por qué la pérdida gradual de disciplina operativa cuesta más de lo que la mayoría de los contratistas imagina
Por John Kenney, Cotney Consulting Group. En el roofing, las empresas rara vez pierden su ventaja de la noche a la mañana. Más a menudo... se van alejando poco a poco de ella. Uno de los mayores desafíos que enfrentan las empresas exitosas de roofing no es la falta de ...
What scaling demands from your software
By The Coffee Shops®. Multi-location growth requires software that supports consistent processes and adoption from the office to the production layer. Growth can expose the limits of processes that once worked well. As an operation expands beyond five locations, established workflows can begin to splinter across branches, creating a new ...
Los buenos project managers piensan tres semanas por adelantado
Por John Kenney, Cotney Consulting Group. La gestión excepcional de proyectos no se trata de mantenerse ocupado. Se trata de mantenerse un paso adelante. Una de las mayores diferencias que he notado entre los project managers promedio y los excepcionales tiene muy poco que ver con la experiencia, la personalidad ...
Protecting your most valuable asset
By Emma Peterson. The right support protects your employees and strengthens your business. We can talk all we want about separating work from personal life, but the reality is that we carry both with us. Things like family concerns, financial pressure and grief follow us to the job site or ...
