Skip Snyder, former national chairman of ACCA, put it quite bluntly at the 2007 ACCA Annual Conference. “You are in the HVAC business, there is no excuse for you not to generate tremendous profit,” he said.
A newly constructed technical center in suburban Detroit is designed with energy efficiency and the environment in mind, by allowing very little heat loss to emanate from the building’s HVAC system.
How do two entities - contractors and inspectors - find common ground for the one thing that they do have in common: a proper HVAC system installation? Here are a couple of ideas.
Brian Kraft said to a crowd of ACCA members that a Website has 30 seconds to hook a customer or lose a customer and that the Website must make a positive impression.
Are consumers beating down HVAC contractors’ doors with all kinds of questions about variable speed? And are HVAC contractors equipped to supply the necessary information if asked?
Performing jobs on the side is a common practice for workers seeking to earn extra income. If side jobs don’t infringe on an employee’s regular job duties or harm the employer he or she works for there should be nothing wrong with performing them, right? But should side jobs be encouraged? Therein lies the rub for some people.
Have you noticed how the aging process is creeping into the HVAC contracting business? Which leads me to the question: Who are, or are going to be, the next generation of business owners, the so-called “young guns of HVAC?”
Is it possible to use benchmarking to help HVAC contractors
understand what they have to do in order to earn a good profit? I believe there
are some benchmarks that can help business owners.
The NEWS spoke to all the principals involved in a Blue Dot closing and sale of its customer base-phone numbers and found out what lies ahead for companies that now must deal with a new customer base and employees who need retraining to fit into new cultures.
A coalition of South Carolina HVAC contractors saw their efforts to limit the sale of HVAC equipment to licensed contractors via House Bill 4595 shot down by Gov. Mark Sanford in May 2006. Its defeat, however, was not due to a lack of persistence and diligence.