In a story broke by our sister publication from the U.K. - The ACR News - Carrier Corp. will be keeping Prince Charles and Camilla (to be honest I do not know her title and it wasn’t worth my time to Google it) cool.
Larry Taylor does not just want fellow contractors to think outside the box, he wants them to throw the box away. That was the message Taylor, owner of AirRite Air Conditioning Co., Fort Worth, Texas, delivered at his workshop titled “Selling Air: Marketing HVAC as a Service, Not a Box” at the 2008 ACCA Annual Conference and Indoor Air Expo.
I am sure every technician has a story about the craziest problem they have found when doing a service call. The question is, can you beat finding an air conditioning unit that has been doused with deer urine?
It might be an uphill battle for me to spend eternity upstairs rather than downstairs. But I hope when my number is up, I end up at the pearly gates for Judgment Day surrounded by the lowlife thieves that are stealing HVAC equipment from churches.
I know this is usually John Hall’s category, but I found an interesting carbon monoxide article online. It seems like the Newark City Council wants to mandate that owners of rental units install and maintain carbon-monoxide detectors in each unit of their property.
Since everyone was in agreement on my take on the company Apple (see previous blog), I thought I would take on a less touchy issue - like global warming.
Lets face it; Apple Inc. is the evil empire. The New York Yankees have nothing on this company. They sell gadgets at obscenely high prices and then make us feel uncool if we don’t purchase them.
In marketing, sometimes it pays to be lucky. And sometimes it pays big time to be lucky. Such was the case with Carrier Corp. who decided a few years ago to buy the adverstising that shows up behind the players and coaches of the Indianapolis Colts during post-game press conferences.
I am sure most contractors would like to believe their employees get a ton of good information from attending a training class. However, in some instances it might be as effective as sending Bobby Knight to anger management class.