Karen L. Edwards, RCS Editor
Seven Steps to Engaging Employees as Brand Ambassadors
RCS Influencer Heidi J. Ellsworth and RCS Editor Karen Edwards say that employees can be one of your best marketing tools. It is important to engage your employees as your brand ambassadors. They represent your brand every day in their interactions out in the community and with customers. Employees are one ...
Texas Contractor Provides Free Roof Repair for Active Military
By Karen L. Edwards, RCS Editor. After learning that this mother of three was holding down the fort while her husband served in the military, contractor decides to donate repairs. Wes Strahan, Lead Roof Adviser at Georgetown, Texas-based Texas Traditions Roofing, was headed out to answer a call from a homeowner who ...
Partners Matter When Choosing Tech Solutions for Your Business
By Karen L. Edwards, RCS Editor. The technology solutions you use to run your business must be able to work together. Choosing a technology company that has the right partnerships matters. You’re probably using several different software programs to run your business. Having them be able to work together and sync information ...
How One Man with an Idea Changed the Way Pipes are Flashed
By Karen L. Edwards, RCS Editor. Anytime a roofing contractor creates a product, there’s usually no doubt it’s going to work. Most contractor-developed products are a result of that contractor’s search for a better way to tackle an issue on the roof. That was exactly the case for W.R. “Bill” Merrin as ...
Construction Company to Use Robotics to Build Renewable Energy Projects
By Karen L. Edwards, RT3 Think Tank. The robotics will help the company with the struggle to find a large enough labor pool for their projects in remote areas. Built Robotics, a company specializing in making robotic construction equipment, announced that it has partnered with construction firm Mortenson to use their earthmoving ...
North American Roofing Market Projected to Grow to Nearly $48 Billion by 2025
By Karen L. Edwards, RCS Editor. New market forecasts the continued growth with flat roofing holding a greater share. The North American Roofing Market forecast by roof type and application was released last month by Allied Market Research. The report states that the North American Roofing market size was $29,864.4 million ...
Safety Was on the Top of Everyone’s Mind’s in May
By Karen L. Edwards, RCS Editor. Here’s what’s trending on RoofersCoffeeShop® this past month. It was appropriate that our most popular article in May was about National Safety Stand Down Week, May 6 – 10, 2019. Tremco Roofing’s article about their participation in the program along with their use of iAuditor to ...
Demand for Roofing Accessories Expected to Have Steady Growth Through 2023
By Karen L. Edwards, RCS Editor. Roofing Underlayment growth will outpace other accessories, study shows. The demand for roofing accessories in the U.S. is anticipated to experience steady growth for the next few years according to a study by The Freedonia Group. The research group forecasts that the overall demand will increase ...
Disrupting the Norm Leads to Success and Happy Customers
By Karen L. Edwards, RCS Editor. Sometimes you have to shake up the traditional way of doing things to provide an even better level of legal services for roofing contractors. At the 2019 International Roofing Expo, Cotney Construction Law dropped a game changer on the roofing industry – a subscription model for ...
Safety First at New Texas Rangers Stadium – Globe Life Field
By Karen L. Edwards, RCS Editor. With more than 2,000 workers on the project, the general contractor is requiring monthly safety meeting with KPost Roofing and Waterproofing hosting the March meeting. Groundbreaking for the new Globe Life Field was September 28, 2017. According to the Texas Rangers’ website, “the roof at Globe ...
