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It’s one thing to drive your business to profitable levels of success. It’s quite another thing to keep it going year after year. After working with Contractors for over 20 years, I’ve learned three challenges cause most business owners to lose power in their day-to-day operations. When you lose power in your operations, you lose money. The fact of the matter is that every business is operated by people and these people have attitudes, emotions, and, sometimes, conflicting points of view. Oftentimes, this can seriously get in the way of your employees’ productivity. It

Can you name the three biggest barriers that block you from increasing net profits, productivity, and employee morale? If not, read through the following to name your enemies, and push past them. BARRIER #1: FINDING AND KEEPING GOOD HELP Finding and keeping good help these days can be difficult; and if your hiring process is lacking, it can block you from growing your company and increasing your profits. If you don’t get this handled, you will be staffing up with employees you don’t really want, putting up with less-than-desirable performance, and suffering the financial

Over the past few articles, I have discussed trends that will likely impact your business in the next decade or so. This is a tough timeframe since the speed of change is accelerating, and sometimes it is difficult to see to the end of the current year. As an observer of the industry, I find it interesting to think about the confluence of restoration, the end-users, and the insurance community and try to find any sort of connectivity. The reality is that the macro business environment is driving changes more than local business or