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Nail the holidays with this gift guide
By Emma Peterson. From tools to training courses, The Coffee Shops™ crew wraps up the perfect presents for roofing pros in this guide to giving this holiday season. If your year has been anything like ours here at The Coffee Shops™, it’s going by faster than you can flip the ...
Maintenance pays
By Cotney Consulting Group. Learn why reactive roofing is a more expensive way to manage a building. There’s a simple truth in our industry: roofs don’t fail overnight; they fail slowly and expensively. You can see it on nearly every commercial building that’s gone a few too many years without attention. A ...
Affinity Webinar - Succession Planning
RoofersCoffeeShop is hosting an essential Affinity Webinar featuring industry expert John Kenney of Cotney Consulting Group in a candid discussion on succession planning for roofing companies. Hosted by Heidi J. Ellsworth and Megan Ellsworth, this session will guide contractors through the process of preparing for leadership transitions, whether passing the ...
Roof smart: Why common sense is your first line of safety
By Cotney Consulting Group. On every roof, every day, thinking ahead is the first step toward safety. When considering roofing safety, you might jump straight to harnesses, hard hats, warning lines and OSHA standards. While those are all critical components, there's one safety tool that doesn't get enough credit: common sense. ...
Safe use of flammables in roofing
By Cotney Consulting Group. With preparation, awareness and discipline, you can keep the spark in your work — not your job site. From torch-down systems and asphalt kettles to power tools and cleaning solvents, roofing crews work around flammable liquids daily. These materials are essential to the job, but if not handled ...
Staying ahead of the next big disruption
By Cotney Consulting Group. A roofing contractor who takes the time to identify vulnerabilities, build backup plans and train their people will always be stronger than one who tries to wing it. When we look back on all the challenges facing our industry, whether pandemics, economic uncertainties, material shortages, sudden price spikes ...
OSHA's recordkeeping rule
By Cotney Consulting Group. What roofing contractors need to know amid policy shifts. Roofing contractors have long managed safety logs, injury reports and OSHA documentation in their daily operations. But in 2024, OSHA raised the stakes. Its expanded electronic recordkeeping rule brought a new era of data transparency and compliance expectations, ...
Planning for the future
By Emma Peterson. Dive into succession planning with industry expert and veteran John Kenney. John Kenney, who has over 45 years of experience in the roofing industry, founded and is the CEO of Cotney Consulting Group. The goal of Cotney Consulting Group is to give contractors “strategic guidance built ...
Master roofing excellence online
By Emma Peterson. Cotney Consulting Group helps contractors and other roofing professionals excel with their online training programs. Whether you are looking for a refresher course or to build skills in new areas, Cotney Consulting Group’s structured suite of online training and certification programs are there to help! These programs ...
Best practices for roofing business succession planning
RCS Influencer John Kenney says that succession isn’t an event; it’s a process. If you’ve built a roofing company worth handing off, congratulations. That’s no small feat. But the truth is, building it was only half the job. The other half is making sure it keeps running when you’re ready to ...
