Inventory is of the utmost importance for any home services company, affecting everything from service management operations to budgeting to even insurance. Few things can impact a company’s bottom line so substantially. In July's Snapshot Survey, we're asking all about inventory management. How do companies make it work for them -- or at least keep it from working against them?

The EGIA Foundation has selected its first-ever class of scholarship recipients, a group of students who will be pursuing education in an HVAC-related field at an accredited two-year college, vocational or technical school, or other approved institute during the 2018-19 academic year!

One of the EGIA Foundation’s core activities, the scholarship program helps to improve the ongoing workforce shortage in the home services industry by awarding twenty $2,500 scholarship to select dedicated individuals who are currently seeking education to better prepare themselves for a career in the industry.

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EGIA’s acclaimed live educational workshops are back this fall and, as always, registration is free for EGIA Premium Members! Upcoming workshops include:

Isaac Heating and Air, out of Rochester, NY, has seen rapid growth and expansion over the last few decades, with plenty more underway. And that growth has been built on two pillars as much as anything else: company culture and extensive (and continuing) training.

In the latest episode of Contractor Coffee Club, Mark Matteson welcomes Eric Knaak, VP & General Manager of Isaac, who explains the strategies, tactics and overarching philosophies that have helped build one of the Northeast’s most successful service companies – with more than 340 employees and nearly 30,000 service agreements.

On ContractorConnect.org, Tim asked: “Reviews good, bad or indifferent, our clients are looking and they are forming opinions of your company based on what strangers are telling them. If you have great reviews, no problem. But we all know that you can’t please everyone every time. Yelp will not do anything to remove bad reviews and they remove great reviews randomly. Necessary evil? You tell me.”

See other contractors’ and consultants’ feedback, and join the conversation yourself, on Contractor Connect – the latest EGIA member benefit free for all members.

It’s unfortunate there are still some in our industry who don’t see static pressure measurement as an opportunity. Instead, they view it as smoke and mirrors, hocus pocus, and something extra to do on each call. The readings aren’t valuable to them.

What if I could show you four ways that static pressure testing expands your troubleshooting ability, exposes the problems behind your headache calls, and uncovers additional work? Would you reconsider its value then?

EGIA has partnered with National Comfort Institute (NCI), the HVAC industry’s leading technical training organization, to create the High Performance HVAC Alliance which delivers a powerful new joint membership opportunity for contractors. The new alliance membership option includes all the benefits of both EGIA and NCI premium memberships at a significantly reduced rate.