Aug 4, 2020 | Columns, Consultants' Corner
by Jim Hinshaw The most common question I get, no matter if I am talking to a contractor in Portland, Florida or Canada, is the same: can you get me some new employees? Many of the Service Nation members are growing, and in the midst of the hot summer, they...
Aug 4, 2020 | Columns, Consultants' Corner
by Lorraine Ball A few weeks ago, I flew to Dallas to buy a new phone for my mother-in-law, Kitzi. With children and grandchildren scattered across the country, the family decided to get her an iPhone so it would be easier for her to keep up with us through pictures,...
Jul 1, 2020 | Columns, Consultants' Corner
by Sam Von Tobel for Lorraine Ball Recent events have proven that life as a business owner is full of curve balls. Whether it’s a snowstorm trapping your employees at home or some crazy new change to the Google algorithm causing you to completely rethink your...
Jul 1, 2020 | Columns, Consultants' Corner
by Gerry Wagner 115 VOLT VS 230 VOLT: The GREE mini split product line offers 115 volt single zone mini split systems in the VIREO and the LIVO models. What exactly is the advantage of the 115 volt vs 230 volt system, if any? Well, let’s take a close look…we will use...
Jul 1, 2020 | Columns, Consultants' Corner
by Jim Hinshaw We are now 90 days (roughly) into a Pandemic. 3 months. So what have we learned so far? I talk to contractors all across the nation, some are still in lock-down mode, others never were. Here are some realizations from the virus that changed our lives....
Jul 1, 2020 | Columns, Consultants' Corner
by Richard Harshaw What a year 2020 has been! It seems like this year has been worse than a Disney roller coaster ride gone terribly wrong. We come out of 2019 with the strongest stock market American has ever seen and a roaring economy that was the envy of the world,...
