Category Archives: Training

The HVAC industry is changing rapidly. Are you keeping up?

The days of highly successful HVAC retail contractors that solely concentrate their businesses on installing and/or replacing equipment are doomed! No, I’m not predicting they will all be out of business, but I am predicting many will be and the others will certainly not be as successful as they have been. Simply replacing older 10 [...]

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Quotes, Words & Terms and Leadership

I believe there are times, hopefully only temporary with nearly all of us certainly including me, when we need to check our attitude. How about these: “Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out” by John Wooden. “Positive thinking is reacting positively to a negative situation” [...]

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A Unique HVAC Technician Training Program

I believe it is my responsibility to keep my clients and blog readers informed of HVAC industry changes, new products and services, processes, marketing ideas, training programs and basically anything more that can help their companies become more successful.  With all of that said I’ve become aware of a unique training program.

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High Quality Technical Training for Your HVACR Technicians

For years I’ve been asked by HVACR contractors where can I find good technical training for our service and maintenance technicians? We finally now have the answer and it’s on our website. We are excited and proud that your technicians can get the very best technical training available through your ordering it on the site. [...]

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Sales Lead Coordination

I find it not unusual to visit with a heating and air conditioning or a plumbing company that spends significant marketing dollars in an effort to attract sales leads but does not have a good program or process in place that guards against those often expensive leads from “falling through the cracks”. This results in [...]

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Adding Social Media to Your Marketing Plan

Here are some of the contractor questions I’m hearing at a quickly increasing rate. What about all of this social media talk and all of the information we’re reading regarding social media? Should my company be blogging? If so, should we have a dedicated blog site or use our company website? Can they be joined? [...]

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The New Dynamic Duo!

“How to Thrive In a Challenging Economy”   Presented by Ron Smith & Tom Piscitelli (it can’t get any better!) Ron and Tom have teamed up for a new one day seminar, “How to Thrive In a Challenging Economy”.  Feedback from each of sessions presented to date has been very positive.  This unique seminar provides detailed plans [...]

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