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Items Tagged with 'profitability'

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Get laser focused in your business

Fixing the Big Five financial numbers

Do you rely on your monthly and annual financial statements to tell you how your business is doing?
Jim Hamilton
Jim Hamilton
January 20, 2016

Making sense of your financial statements.


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The New Flat Rate

The New Flat Rate opens national training center

December 29, 2015

The New Flat Rate moved to a new location in Dalton, Ga., that houses modernized office space and a training center for technicians and contractors.


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A plumbing contractor's showroom success story

Hank Darlington
November 25, 2014
I'm like most of you … I love a great success story!
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Al Levi

Selling your plumbing or heating services with passion

Sell with passion.
7 Power Blog
Al Levi
August 15, 2014

Can’t drive it, wear it or show it off to my friends, but…


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Jim Hamilton

Think about retirement now in order to save the money you'll need then

How much profit is enough?
July 29, 2014

The key phrase here is “financial gain.”


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Jim Hamilton

The success of your business is in your control

New year, same focus.
Jim Hamilton
Jim Hamilton
January 23, 2014

Go on. Flip over the calendar. Look at that! You’ve made it to 2014. Some of you are celebrating this past year with a bottle of bubbly, a victory lap around the shop and a hearty pat on the back (and maybe year-end bonuses) for your team. Others of you may still be saying: “Whew! Thank goodness that year is over. This year will be different. I know we can succeed.


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Jim Hamilton

Do you struggle to make a profit?

Try something different and plan to make it successful.
Jim Hamilton
Jim Hamilton
October 18, 2013

Many times as owners we get in the way of our own success by continuing to do only those things that we already know how to do. Doing what you know and actually knowing what to do can result in two different outcomes. 


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Adams Hudson

No train, no gain

Give techs the confidence they need to sell your services and increase your profit.
Adams Hudson
Adams Hudson
July 18, 2013

Imagine this …One day, John rolls out of bed, steps out onto his front porch to fetch the paper and while staring into the clear blue sky, thinks to himself “Yep, today’s the day. The weather is perfect and I’ve got some free time — I think I’ll fly a plane.”


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Kenny Chapman

Give customers what they want

Or your competitors will.
Kenny Chapman
Kenny Chapman
July 18, 2013

 In the Chapman household, we do our best to eat a healthy, sensible diet the majority of the time. One of the ways we accomplish this is by scrutinizing the ingredient labels on all the food we purchase (thanks to my wife, Christy). As I’ve come to learn, one ingredient we do our best to avoid is high-fructose corn syrup.


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Kenny Chapman

How communication turns into profit for technicians

Communicating effectively with your staff influences your company’s degree of success.
Kenny Chapman
Kenny Chapman
May 23, 2013

 Recently I released one of my online technician training videos about how technicians can actually turn good communication skills into sales and profit for the company. Communication is a topic that gets talked about in a broad scope in our industry, but is seldom broken down into how critically important effective communication is to our overall success. 


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