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How to Grow Your Business
By The RIDGEPRO ®. When you’re too busy to grow your business. At the height of the roofing season it’s tough to think about anything other than getting through it. Weekends off are a fond memory and often, your kids are already asleep by the time you get home. You’re dimly aware ...
Bad Habits: Breaking up is Hard to do
By The RIDGEPRO®. Here's how you can break your bad business habits. They say it takes 30 days of practice to break a bad habit and even longer to form a new one. Anyone who has tried to quit smoking can tell you it takes longer than a single month and often ...
Some Striking Facts About Lightning
By The RIDGEPRO® With Lightning Safety Awareness Week, here are some facts and precautions roofing professionals must know about lightning. We all feel joy at the return of spring. In the north the ice melts on the pond, in the west the desert blooms, and in the south lightning illuminates the sky. ...
Beyond Recruitment – Tips for Employee Retention
By The RIDGEPRO® Here are five tips on how to retain talented employees. Among the most costly things a company must do is hire and train new employees. It’s a drain, not only on the budget, but on the front line people who must participate in the onboarding and training of the ...
The RIDGEPRO® Supports National Safety Stand Down
By The RIDGEPRO® It’s time to take a breath. Stop. Look around. Ask your crews: What fall hazards do you see on the jobsite? What can we do about them? During the first week of May for the past ten years, OSHA has reminded all of us in the construction trades ...
Roofers Are People Too
By The RIDGEPRO®. It's our responsibility to remember and respect that roofers are humans too, with their own complex lives. A successful roofing crew works like a well-oiled machine. In a perfect world, job specs were exact; materials arrived on time; equipment is always in tip-top shape; the weather is just right; ...
Five Tips for Embracing New Ideas
By The RIDGEPRO® Make it safe for innovation in your company. One of your estimators has been pushing you to purchase one of those high-tech measurement tools that uses aerial images to take roof measurements and then creates a comprehensive report and estimate for potential customers. You’ve been putting him off by ...
LIVE From IRE 2023 With The RidgePro!
Heidi J. Ellsworth meets with Brandon Strawder at IRE 2023 to discuss the latest updates from RIDGEPRO products. Editor's note: The following is the transcript of an live interview with Brandon Strawder from RidgePro. You can read the interview below or watch the video on YouTube. Heidi J. Ellsworth: We are ...
A Quality Focus Pays For Itself
By The RIDGEPRO™. By insisting and focusing on quality, your company will find success. When you’re running a business for the long term, it’s about more that just generating cash flow and paying the bills. It’s about building a stable enterprise and planning for future growth. It can be tough in the ...
When Shingles Fly
By RIDGEPRO. Safety considerations for windy days. Weather forecasting has steadily improved with satellites monitoring vast storm systems as they move around the globe. Hurricanes and blizzards no long mount surprise attacks. Roofing contractors know they are approaching and adjust schedules to meet their intensity. However, local short term weather forecasting a ...
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