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Why You Need Both Profits and Cash To Survive

Each month your P&L tells you whether you earned a profit or had a loss. It does not tell you how much cash you have! You must turn your profits into cash by collecting your receivables and paying the expenses incurred to produce those revenues.

We Are Improving And Expanding, So Stick Around!

As I mentioned in last month’s column, we recently moved our offices to a new location. We had a lot of fun buying new furniture, artwork, equipment and other things we needed; but we deemed lots of things valuable and worth keeping. Some things needed minor tweaks, some major repairs, …

6 Leadership Styles and How To Choose Yours

Today’s teams need diverse leadership to be effective.

Recipe for an Effective Social Media Mix

As a business leader, you need to be familiar with the different social media platforms and understand how they can help you to improve marketing and communication. Each platform provides a different and potentially profitable opportunity to grow your business if used in a way that takes advantage of how …

Transform Your Business

The reality is wherever we spend our precious resources — time, money and energy — is where we will get the greatest results.

Three Ways to Start a Conversation and Finish with a Sale

An elevator pitch, infomercial or positioning statement doesn't make for good conversation. Michel Neray offers three alternatives for engaging prospects that will entice them into wanting to know more.

Technician Training And Education — The Conditioned Air Approach

Giving employees the education they need to excel will lead not only to well-trained technicians, but also to a loyal workforce that will maintain a healthy bottom line for business owners.

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Partners Should Plan Ahead For Disability

Dealing with a disabled partner is never an easy matter. Human nature is such that many of us would find it difficult to ask a disabled partner to step aside due to his or her disability. Yet, this is often the only solution.

Stop Cutting and Start Growing

In lean times you can decrease cash spending by using inventory in your shop and on your trucks. Ruth offers a break-even formula to calculate what your company needs to sustain its overhead.

Selling Commercial Service Agreements, pt. 4

This is the fourth of a six-part series on creating a selling system for commercial service agreements.

20 Questions with Ann Kahn

Ann Kahn, president of Kahn Mechanical Contractors, discusses energy-performance contracting, core values and getting through tough times.

Clearing Up Cloud Confusion

How a cloud-computing model can save money, increase capability, and relieve IT headaches for HVACR contractors.

Encouraging Peak Performance From Older Workers

The workforce is aging, so learn how to make minor accommodations to keep employees productive.

6 Lessons for the Small Business Owner

By Terry Tanker. HVACR Business recently celebrated its sixth anniversary in business. We’ve learned a lot along the way and thought some of the lessons learned along the way would be helpful.

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