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By Dale West, Senior Advisor, American Society for Asset Protection If you were to die this week, do you know what would happen to your assets? Creating an effective estate plan ensures you can answer yes to this question. Without...

By: Tom Kissane  You’ve decided to wrap your service fleet. Whether a single truck or 20 trucks,  there are some rules you need to follow. My company has wrapped about 14 vehicles over the past few years and after some...

By: Gerard Baker, WSJ The company that pioneered lightbulbs now wants to turn off the switch. General Electric is weighing a sale of its consumer-lighting business, which for decades defined the company that was co-founded by Thomas Edison 125 years...

This post was originally published on Forbes.com. Do you live in fear of your email inbox? It is such an effective tool for information exchange that it can render us completely ineffective in our attempts to control it. I fear...

By: Manny Ortega The word VALUE can mean so many things depending on the way it is used.  You can put a value on an object and you can get value for your money.  But have you ever taken the...

By: Dean Landers Professionalism is a word bantered about by almost everyone in the home services industry today. Interestingly, each individual has their own idea of what it actually means to deliver professional service to a customer.  Some take it...

By: Steve Zannos During the 2017 USA / ASTI in San Diego, I had the opportunity to sit in on the USA Advisory Committee Meeting.  One of the “hot” topics of discussion is what we can do as an industry...

Since the Genesis of Electronically Controlled Refrigerators in 2000, one the first questions I am asked during training is “How do I put (it) into DEFROST?” “It” being the brand of refrigerator I am training on that session. As a...

By: Charles Chappell, National Service Alliance At this past ASTI conference, Dean Landers presented a very compelling case on the competitive advantages and disadvantages of both Independent and National Service. It is true National Service can leverage many of the...