Articles Tagged with ''business administration''

With every new consulting client, I begin our work by asking the following: “How are you judging your staff’s performance?”

Dave Squires is no stranger to the challenges of running a plumbing contracting business. 

PHVAC business owners know running a service company is not easy. 

One of the most challenging marketing tasks for a plumbing company owner is identifying a point of uniqueness. 

If you’ve owned or managed an in-home service business for any amount of time, you know there are always opportunities for growth in multiple areas within your company. 

Bad attitudes are everywhere, or so it would appear. In most cases, it is based on nothing other than your opinion. 

Strategy, in my experience, is vastly misunderstood. I often see strategy thought of as “marketing strategy,” and it is applied to business development efforts only, or it is considered to be “not-applicable” as conditions on the ground are changing too quickly to “make a long-term plan” and then not change from it. 

I’m normally a voracious reader — of anything fiction. Actually, I’m a huge science fiction and fantasy nerd. 

Plumbing is what you do. It’s what you are good at. You are proud of that LMP designation, and should be. Now, it’s time to stop plumbing. 

Right now, there is a lot of confusion in the world. People don’t necessarily know which “experts” to trust or what to believe.