Praying or Planning? Profitable Growth is Not Accidental

Praying or Planning? Profitable Growth is Not Accidental

by | Aug 19, 2013 | Home Service Best Practices, Independent Home Services Contractors Training, Know Your Numbers, Marketing Coach for Business, Service Business Coaching, Successful Contractor, Training

By Lisa Schardt, Nexstar® Network Business Enhancement Specialist Your business is growing. You’re growing revenue so fast, you can’t keep up. You are praying that growth continues, because growth is good. AND you pray that someday, you’ll make money. What? If someone...
Praying or Planning? Profitable Growth is Not Accidental

Summer Sales Hide a Multitude of Sins

by | Jun 24, 2013 | Call Center, Home Service Best Practices, Independent Home Services Contractors Training, Know Your Numbers, Marketing Coach for Business, Service Business Coaching, Successful Contractor, Training

By Lisa Schardt, Nexstar® Network Business Enhancement Specialist It’s hot. It’s rainy. It’s humid. Your HVAC customers are hot. Phones are ringing off the hook. Sales are rocking. Life is good. The checkbook is full. Go ahead, relax! Take that deep breath you so...
Praying or Planning? Profitable Growth is Not Accidental

Taste the Freedom

by | May 20, 2013 | Home Service Best Practices, Independent Home Services Contractors Training, Know Your Numbers, Marketing Coach for Business, Service Business Coaching, Successful Contractor, Training

By Lisa Schardt, Nexstar® Network Business Enhancement Specialist Nothing says Freedom more than jumping into your sports car of choice, for me it’s a cherry red Miata convertible, and cruising down the open road. You have no agenda and no deadlines; it’s just you,...
Praying or Planning? Profitable Growth is Not Accidental

Succession Planning Tips for Success

by | Mar 4, 2013 | Home Service Best Practices, Independent Home Services Contractors Training, Marketing Coach for Business, Service Business Coaching, Successful Contractor, Training

By Lisa Schardt, Nexstar® Network Business Enhancement Coach Family-owned businesses make up 80-90 percent of all businesses enterprises in North America. In addition, family businesses account for 50 percent of U.S. gross domestic product, generate 60 percent of the...