Decades ago, a foreman instructed me in my roofing duties by simply stating, "Keep your feet under you and your ass behind you." I've had worse advice since then.
This subject came up in a conversation with a friend of mine who runs a sizable plumbing service company. A valued employee who worked as a dispatcher had just become a new mom and wanted to continue in her job working from home.
Entrepreneurs tend to be sales-oriented people who operate with the idea that the next job will provide the financial success they are seeking. Sometimes a strategy of saving costs can be more productive than increasing sales.
Things continue to stay red-hot on the immigration front. On May 26 of this year, the U.S. Senate passed landmark immigration legislation. Senate Bill 2611, the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act, was approved by a 62-to-36 vote.
The perimeter edge is one of the most vulnerable points of a low-slope roof system. This area is continually susceptible to wind-uplift damage and moisture infiltration.
The No. 1 skill a roofing contractor needs, over and beyond performing quality work and achieving high levels of customer satisfaction, is getting the right price. The lack of the right price is the "root of most evil" in the roofing business.
If you recruit and hire correctly, as we have discussed in the last two articles in this series, retaining your Latino workers will be a slam-dunk or, as our soccer loving people would say - gooooooal! No hay problema, as we say.
As you flip through the pages of this magazine, you may note that I am the least technical person in all of Roofing Contractor. Arguably, I am the most appreciative of those with technical skills.
Here we are at the beginning of another storm season. Already this year, the hail across the country has been more active than normal, and the projection for the coming hurricane season is that this year's batch of hurricanes has the potential to be even more powerful than last year's.
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