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Spreading Cheer Without Fear

Raucous holiday parties can leadto injury, lawsuits, and insults if not planned properly. Tonya Vinas, editor-in-chief of HVACR Business offers tips and advice for parties that will encourage employees throughout the year.

Business Planning, Part 2

When you track your results, you’ll have a better chance of making corrections as events unfold.

Great Companies Are Built With Great Internal Communications

Failure to properly communicate with employees (co-workers) on a consistent and timely basis is one of the biggest causes of the inability to achieve growth, profitability, and stability.

Tips For Serving Alcohol Responsibly

If you are planning on serving alcohol at your business or office party, here are some planning ideas that can minimize your liability risk.

GPS Comes of Age

Global positioning systems enable hvacr contractors to save time, money, and fuel

Focus on Fleet Maintenance

The latest trends, technology advances, and simple best practices can cut costs by 30%.

Business Planning, Part 1

The most successful companies in our industry — and no doubt in most industries — plan, execute, and measure. That means they create, execute and track a business plan.

Outbound Customer Service: Tools for Success

Susan Hart shares the benefits of a successful outbound customer service program.

Why Smart People Do Dumb Things

Guy Kawasaki offers four reasons why smart, famous, powerful, and rich people who should obviously know better end up crashing and burning and how to mature.

Boost Productivity With ‘Visuality’

The power of visuality is that it empowers employees to do their jobs more efficiently based on their own evaluations, ideas, and actions. It seems with this concept, everyone benefits, especially customers.

Independent Contractor or Employee?

The Internal Revenue Service has rules for determining whether someone is an employee or an independent contractor.

20 Questions with Gary Daniels

Daniels discusses wholesale distribution, contractors, adding value, globalization and team sports at Johnstone headquarters in Portland, Oregon.

Customer Care Boosts Referrals

Customer care is all about empathy and begins with hiring. You and your co-workers must treat customers or prospective customers in such a way that they sense that you are concerned about them and their comfort— not just with selling them products or services.

How to Hire the Right Web Designer

What to look for and how to work with your web marketing partner.

Buy or Lease?

There's no right answer. The decision to buy or lease a fleet should be based on several things, including how you used your trucks and financial considerations.

Set Your Profitable Price

To calculate your hourly rate consider the direct wages of the technician, the associated labor expenses, a truck, the associated truck expenses, non-productive time, and overhead.

20 Questions with John Galyen

John discusses contractors, the wholesale market, commercial and industrial refrigeration, as well as the North American marketplace.

Calling All Customers

An outbound customer service program can inexpensively increase sales and improve responsiveness.

Maintenance Programs Protect Profitability

Creating a profitable program requires planning and persistence. You must get your staff on board, develop and deliver direct mail and advertising pieces, and train the office and field personnel how to sell and fulfill the agreements.

Protect Your Company with a Corporate Minute Book

Corporate minutes can help ensure that owners shield themselves from being held legally responsible for corporate business failures. In addition, they can help quickly settle inevitable shareholder disputes, smooth business transactions and even help answer questions during an audit by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).