Some Common Estimating Mistakes — and How to Avoid Them By Michael Lenk, Vice President of Sales at Thermal-Chem There are hidden fees and costs associated with job bids. Learn from these four common mistakes to avoid following into similar patterns.
Stop the Wheel, I Want to Get Off! 5 Steps for Beating Burnout By Kate Zabriskie, President of Business Training Works, Inc. Work, eat, repeat. Feel yourself nearing the point of burnout? Stop the wheel with five steps.
Concrete Slab Coating Solutions Using Epoxies By Claudia Jeffrey, Content Strategist at Crowd Writer and Trainer at Dissertation Assistance Epoxy coatings offer a variety of options for concrete slabs in the industrial and commercial sectors. Get a few tips on where and why you might offer epoxies to help meet your clients’ needs.
Temperature Effects on Installing Epoxies By Josh Jones, Technical Trainer and President for STI Product, surface, and air temperatures affect the installation of epoxy, polyaspartic, and urethane coatings. Too high or too low can change the degree of success.
Warren’s Corner: How to Avoid Blistering From the Cold Wall Effect By Warren Brand, Owner of Chicago Corrosion Group, LLC The cold wall effect may seem like a hokey idea, but with a simple example of a soda can on a hot summer day, it may become clearer.
New Digital Frontier for Painting Contractors By Divya Thadani, PPG General Manager of PPG Services The use of digitization isn’t just for Netflix and Uber. Technology can help in the coatings world, too, especially when communicating with clients.
Golf Lessons That You Can Use to Run Your Business By Jordan Fuller, Retired Golfer Want a reason to spend more time on the golf course? There are a lot of overlaps between golf and business that might help your contracting company succeed.
11 Construction Myths: The Truths About Construction By Ethan Smith, Content Curator for Trader Interactive Equipment Trader Construction gets a bad rap. You’ve probably heard at least some of these 11 myths. Now you have the information at your fingertips to bust them!
Hiring Is an Emotional Exercise: 4 Tips for Selecting the Best Candidate By Jeremy Eskenazi, Speaker, Author of RecruitConsult! Leadership, and Founder of Riviera Advisors Interviewing people can be overwhelming, but with these four tips, you should be able to select your next candidates more successfully and less painfully.
4 Things That Don’t Change for Recruiting and Hiring During A Crisis By Jeremy Eskenazi, Speaker, Author, and Founder of Riviera Advisors Even during a crisis, there are four aspects of the recruiting and hiring process that shouldn’t change.