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4 Ways to Assure Homeowners That Metal Roofs are a Good Investment
By Cass Jacoby, RCS Reporter. How to talk to homeowners about the benefits of choosing and investing in a metal roof. As a residential contractor, a large part of your job is educating homeowners so that they can make the best choice for their homes. When it comes to ...
Where to Start in Metal Roofing
By Evelyn Witterholt, RCS Reporter. Want to get into metal roofing but don’t know where to start? We’ve got you covered! It’s not a bad idea to start considering expanding your roofing business into metal. Metal roofing is already a $3.3 billion industry in North America and is expected to ...
6 Strategies to Keeping Cash in Your Company’s Pockets
By Kate Ratcliffe, Leap. Simple ways to make sure your hard-earned profits don’t end up in the hands of your competitors. Money is everything and while you may try hard to make a profit, you could be losing money in little ways and not even know it. If you keep ...
Roofing Estimating Training Program in Spanish
By Cotney Consulting Group. Cotney Consulting Group has expanded its estimator training by now offering our beginner and intermediate training in Spanish. This latest offering adds to a program suite that also includes a Professional Certificate in Roofing Estimating, or PREC, and a Certified Professional Roofing Estimator, or PREC certification. These training courses ...
4 Steps to Start Working Less but do More
By Breakthrough Academy. Get your work-life balance back with advice from owner Ryan Steward in the Contractor Evolution podcast. Working in construction can be chaotic. If you are feeling like you are pulled in so many directions that, by the end of the day, nothing gets accomplished, you are ...
Why You Need a Residential Service Department
By Cass Jacoby, RCS Reporter. This new RCS eBook asks the experts from Titebond and Franklin International how to expand residential service departments. Residential service programs usually fly under the radar in the roofing industry, despite being a great way to garner referrals and create a dependable year-round income ...
How Using Conversion Funnels Can Boost Your Business
By Evelyn Witterholt, RCS Reporter. This eBook breaks down what conversion funnels are and how you can use them to your advantage. Having great ideas on how to run your business is great, but ideas alone do not generate sales. What your business needs is a conversion funnel to organize ...
6 Tips to Stay Determined When the Going Gets Rough
By Breakthrough Academy. Learn how 15 years of hustling paid off due to Kim Larson’s grit. You need grit to be a construction leader, and no one knows this more than Kim Larson. After 15 years of hustling, Kim’s determination paid off, and she was able to scale ...
3 Major Problems a Staff Training Checklist Solves
By Breakthrough Academy. Retain your best employees by ensuring their first few weeks on the job go smoothly. Tell us if this sounds familiar. You've got all this experience and know-how that is crystal clear in your head, yet, when it comes time to ...
Digital Ordering is a Game Changer for Roofing
By Karen L. Edwards, RCS COO. We order products from our phones and computers every day for convenience, so why not do the same with your roofing materials? Let’s face it, ordering products digitally is the new way of shopping. It’s taken hold for consumers at a rapid pace, with ...
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