Whether you’re a one-person operation or have several hundred employees, professionalism is key to a successful contracting business. Your highest revenue stream should be generated from repeat and referral customers. A bad review travels fast, while contractors actually have to work at acquiring good reviews, particularly on the Internet. As Ben Franklin eloquently surmised, “By Read more
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Source: MCAA College students often don’t make firm career decisions until their third or fourth year of school. You can influence their choices by hiring them as interns during their early college years. Giving a bright, energetic, eager-to-learn college student the opportunity to discover our industry through a positive, rewarding experience with your company will Read more
STANLEY® introduces the new lightweight and compact TLM99s Laser Distance Measurer – model STHT77343 – with Bluetooth® connectivity that syncs the TLM99s to smart phones and tablets via the STANLEY® Floor Plan App. With its automatic calculations, the Laser Distance Measurer makes job estimates quick and easy, instantly calculating square footage, volume, and distance. The Read more
If you’re a loyal mechanical-hub.com blog reader, you will notice a common thread among all of the bloggers—we advocate for bringing more people to the trades. As tradespeople and business owners, we experience daily the skilled worker drought amongst the job pool. For every four people that leave the trades, only one person is joining Read more
We are creatures of habit; when we find a system that works we stick with it. We all have them, some good and a few bad. The topic today is tools. Whether you wear jeans, cargo pants or bib overalls, odds are good that some of your favorite go to tools are in your pockets. Read more