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Your team is the business

How to keep good technicians, get the most from them, stay out of trouble and turn the work into profit. Every guide is a 3 to 5 minute read you can download.

AC technician checking refrigerant pressures on a service call
AC technician checking refrigerant pressures on a service call

The numbers

Pay by role, turnover, the cost of hiring, and how short the trades are.

Best practices

Best practices for your team

Hiring and keeping good techs

Good techs are hard to find and easy to lose, and every departure costs months of production.

  1. Hire for attitude and teach the trade, with a clear path from helper to lead.
  2. Plan the first 90 days: ride-alongs, checklists and weekly check-ins.
  3. Hold stay interviews with your best people before they think about leaving.
All 6 practices, and when to get help

An overwhelmed dispatcher

One person answers the phones, runs the board, calms customers and chases techs. Something always slips.

  1. Separate answering from dispatching during peak hours.
  2. Build tomorrow's board by 3 PM, grouped by area.
  3. Match job types to tech skills before the day starts.
All 6 practices, and when to get help

Calling rules and compliance

Calling and texting customers comes with rules on consent, timing and opt-outs, and the rules change.

  1. Scrub lists against the national and state do-not-call registries before calling.
  2. Keep a record of consent for marketing texts and calls.
  3. Honor opt-outs fast, however the customer asks.
All 6 practices, and when to get help

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