Karen L. Edwards, RCS Editor
What’s Your Roofing Personality?
By Karen L. Edwards, RCS Editor. Now the roofing industry has its very own personality quiz. Quizzes are all over the Internet and social media outlets. You can find out just about everything. Whether you were spoiled as a kid, which actor is most like you, what your superhero name would be ...
Ryan Groth Shares Keys to Predictable Revenue at Duro-Last® Annual Seminar
By Karen L. Edwards, RCS Editor. Contractors were able to participate in hour-long breakout sessions focused on predictable revenue and growing their businesses. While attending the 2020 International Roofing Expo, I ran into RCS Partner Ryan Groth from Sales Transformation Group. I hadn’t seen Ryan in a while so I was excited ...
Construction Industry Speaks Out Against Cities Banning Work
By Karen L. Edwards, RCS Editor. Boston was the first major city to put a halt to all construction activities because of Coronavirus. The construction industry is understandably not happy with the City of Boston’s mandate to halt construction projects. According to an article in Bisnow.com, construction industry advocates are advising against ...
3 Tips for Helping Your Teams Work from Home Successfully
By Karen L. Edwards, RCS Editor. As a seasoned work-from-home professional, I wanted to share some tips to help teams stay productive during this uncertain time. After joining a roofing tech startup back in 2010, I made the transition from going into an office every day to working in my home office ...
Missouri Roofing Contractor Warns Other Contractors of Scam
By Karen L. Edwards, RCS Editor. Pyramid Roofing in Branson, Missouri believes they almost were victims of a scam. Typically, the only time you see scams and roofing in the news, it’s a story about how some unscrupulous roofing contactor defrauded homeowners out of thousands of dollars without performing the work. In ...
Keeping Your Business Running During the Coronavirus Crisis
By Karen L. Edwards, RCS Editor. Roofs will continue to need repairs, maintenance and replacement during this pandemic. Crisis communications and planning is something we all know is a good idea to have for our businesses, but many have been caught off guard by this COVID-19 (coronavirus) outbreak and are scrambling. So, ...
Companies are Getting More Creative to Attract Future Workforce
By Karen L. Edwards, RCS Editor. St. Louis contractor UPCO partnered with artist Howard "Chingy" Bailey Jr. to write and produce a song and video called "Old Construction Road." Competition for young workers is heating up and the skilled labor gap continues to widen. Companies are finding themselves having to get more ...
Fixing Chimneys? Mor-Flexx® Should be in Your Toolbox
By Karen L. Edwards, RCS Editor. Sometimes when inspecting a roof for damage or to estimate a replacement, there may be instances where it’s obvious the chimney needs to be repaired. If you want to offer additional services to your customers, you might consider mortar, stucco or chimney repairs. They are easier ...
Study: Prefabrication to Transform Construction Industry
By Karen L. Edwards, RCS Editor. Dodge Data & Analytics released a SmartMarket report to examine the frequency of prefabricated products, the benefits as well as what drives their use and what gets in the way. The Dodge study examined both prefabrication and modular building as two separate topics finding that they ...
Long-time Contractor, First-time Attendee Wins GAF Truck Giveaway at IRE
By Karen L. Edwards, RCS Editor. GAF had a strong showing in this year’s exhibit hall and perhaps the best giveaway: a Ford F-150 loaded with Timberline® HDZ™ shingles. If you attended the International Roofing Expo® in Dallas this year, you couldn’t miss GAF’s presence at the front of the exhibit hall. ...
