Each November, KPost Company in Dallas hosts a strategic partner dinner, and invitations are handed out to vendors, distributors and others who’ve helped the company in its quest to set the standard for quality in the North Texas roofing industry.
For all the changes in the roofing industry, EPDM is the homegrown original formula for single-ply membranes. It’s been 40 years since this newcomer emerged with a radical method of waterproofing a building that saved money and could elongate with structural stresses and cope with inclement weather.
Wally Scoggins, president of Brazos Urethane, Baton Rouge, La., offered a dynamic presentation on the deck and roof replacement of the Louisiana Superdome following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.
It was spring of 2007 when Rick Davis of Chicago-based Building Leaders Inc. was invited to speak at the Best of Success Conference in Phoenix. “My instant inclination was to offer a presentation that would describe methods for selling in a down market,” Davis said. “I had no idea that the market would become significantly worse during the summer.”
“Safety will never make you a million dollars, but it can save you a million,” said Kirk Herold as he opened his session titled “Safety: The Top Priority.”
No company’s succession plan is complete without life insurance, a will, a living will, and an estate plan, said Kevin Kennedy, the executive vice president of Evans Roofing Co., Elmira, N.Y.
Effective marketing techniques that don’t eat up a company’s profits were the focus of Ken Kelly’s presentation titled “Guerilla Marketing.” Kelly, the president of Kelly Roofing in Naples, Fla., noted that a typical seminar attendee retains only 20 percent of the information received. “My goal is to increase those numbers by making ideas easy to implement,” he said, and then he offered his first suggestion: “Listen to books.”
John D’Annunzio, president of IRT/Paragon Consultants with offices in Michigan, Florida and Indiana, informed attendees about recent code changes and highlighted some trends to keep an eye on in his session titled “Code Update.”
The increasingly complex world of employment verification, Social Security regulations, and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was the focus of James Aldrich’s session, “The ICE Man Cometh and How to Be Ready for Him.” Aldrich, an attorney with Dickinson Wright PLLC in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., focuses on the corporate aspects of U.S. immigration law, and he was on hand to supply advice to business owners regarding a variety of employment issues.
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