A Path To Success: Planning Your Exit
A Path To Success: Planning Your Exit

Who’s going to take over your business and when? This is a question many contractors are currently asking themselves. Learn some strategies for getting a plan in place long before you are ready to make your exit.

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Obamacare: What Contractors Need To Know About Health Care Now
Obamacare: What Contractors Need To Know About Health Care Now

The implementation of Obamacare may be the most complicated new employer requirement ever and there are a lot of questions surrounding what needs to be done with less than a year to do it. Find out what you need to know now about how this sweeping healthcare reform law will affect your business.

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Contractors Who Dig Geothermal
Contractors Who Dig Geothermal

Geothermal technology is one of the oldest technologies in the world. Learn how innovations in geothermal can boost your bottom line and how it's growing in popularity on the residential side of things.

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IE3 Buzz: There Are Signs Everywhere
IE3 Buzz: There Are Signs Everywhere
May 20, 2013

This week we're looking for signs. Signs that we are useful, we are productive, that our policies are sound, and that we are reaching our customers. You see there are signs everywhere, we just have to open our eyes to see them and be willing to follow them. When we do this, we find success comes a little bit easier.

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Where Do We Go From Here?
Where Do We Go From Here?

By now we have all heard that the regional energy conservation standards for residential natural gas non-weatherized and mobile home furnaces (regional standards) will not ...

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What’s the Point of Pinterest?
What’s the Point of Pinterest?

Pinterest for Business? Really? I hear the collective sighs as you read about yet another social media platform! If you’re like many of the business-minded ...

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The Hard Knock Lessons of HPC
The Hard Knock Lessons of HPC

In life, as in business, we learn by doing and following the examples of those who have gone before us. We learn the do and ...

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Opportunity & Hoops, When The Government Is Your Customer
Opportunity & Hoops, When The Government Is Your Customer

Good news! The government’s building a new facility in your area and the general contractor wants you to bid on the HVAC work. Or maybe ...

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Court Ruling Rebukes NLRB & Obama Administration
Court Ruling Rebukes NLRB & Obama Administration

When the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia overturned a 2012 National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) decision this past January, the Obama Administration ...

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Does Determining Insulation R-Values Make You Sweat?
Does Determining Insulation R-Values Make You Sweat?

Have your Manual J8® practitioners ever called you with questions on a home that does not match any construction option in the Manual J Tables? ...

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Daikin AC, Inc. Launches Daikin eQuip
Daikin AC, Inc. Launches Daikin eQuip

Daikin AC (Americas), Inc. has launched a mobile app that gives you Daikin info at your fingertips. The new app, Daikin eQuip, is designed for ...

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Rheem Debuts First-Of-Its-Kind Residential Tank Water Heater
Rheem Debuts First-Of-Its-Kind Residential Tank Water Heater

Rheem recently unveiled the new High-Efficiency Condensing Power Direct Vent (PDV) Water Heater. This ENERGY STAR® qualified water heater is the first in the industry ...

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TRANE Celebrates A Century Of Service
TRANE Celebrates A Century Of Service

After 100 years of reliability, innovation and countless technological and engineering firsts, history has made one thing abundantly clear: It’s Hard to Stop a Trane. ...

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Contractors’ Short-Term Outlook Improving Heading Into Spring
Contractors’ Short-Term Outlook Improving Heading Into Spring

The Contractor Comfort Index (CCI) shows that contractors’ short-term outlook on growth is improving as they head into the spring months. The Air Conditioning Contractors ...

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Federated Insurance Expands Recent Affordable Care Act Webinar For Association Members
Federated Insurance Expands Recent Affordable Care Act Webinar For Association Members

On February 20, Federated Insurance hosted over 600 business owners on a live webinar presentation to discuss the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Due ...

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ACCA Installs 2013-14 Board of Directors
ACCA Installs 2013-14 Board of Directors

At ACCA 2013, ACCA’s annual conference, Laura DiFilippo of DiFilippo’s Service Company in Paoli, PA, outgoing ACCA Chairman “passed the gavel” to Bobby Ring of ...

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