An idea occurred to me; why not bump up the price of a service agreement to include two more filter clean/changes every year? That would mean four visits to the home and the opportunity to sell additional products or services during the visits. Voila! I struck pay dirt. Or did I?

Tax credits in the recently passed Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (EESA) will help the HVAC industry’s residential and commercial markets. You will see extensions of expired and expiring tax incentives for renewable energy, energy-efficient building upgrades, and appliance and equipment purchases.

Introduction to HVACR through conventions. Contractors need to do the right thing.

Among the predictions in a New Horizons Foundation (NHF) study, one area I believe it is right on target is its stance on Building Information Modeling (BIM). According to the study, by 2018 BIM will have become standard operating procedure on virtually all mid-size to large projects, plus will invade the residential sector. Believe it.

When you are filling your fleet of service vans and trucks with fuel, you no doubt cringe at what it costs to do so. And you want to assign blame. But have you ever thought about blaming the Internet and/or those 24-hour cable news stations? Those could well be a couple of the culprits, according to Richard Costello.

Tackling questions of the day. Proceed with care.

Patricia Schafer believes the reasons why businesses fail include poor management, wrong location, overexpansion, lack of planning, and lack of a Website. Huh? Did you say lack of a Website? A certain NEWS’ business editor has been harping about that for years. It looks like his harping has been validated, at least by Ms. Schafer.

It used to be that when we got together with neighbors for pizza and beer, we’d discuss all sorts of topics. Where are you going on vacation? Are you happy with your kid’s teacher this year? What’s going on with your job? Now we commiserate over who’s paying what, and more importantly, what we are doing to lower the bill.

Childhood playtime can influence an adult’s career. Green, comfort, and energy efficiency.

A recent posting on an Internet Website sparked a flurry of replies from HVACR contractors, opening up a can of worms for many business owners who believe in turning a blind eye to a customer’s “potential” problem versus the business owners who believe in full disclosure. Let me explain.