Upon taking the stage, the first thing Bill Combes asked attendees at the 2015 Best of Success seminar to do was raise their hands.

Sales guru Ron Marks, a partner with Southwestern Consulting, kicked off the 2015 Best of Success seminar by laying out concrete steps roofing contractors can take to shorten their sales cycle.

The demographics are overwhelming. Forty-five percent of all roof installers in the United States are Latinos.

It’s not often than you can get the annual Roofing Contractors of the Year together in the same room at the same time.

In January 2013, a young driver with Madsen Roofing & Waterproofing, Inc. — a commercial roofing contractor licensed in California, Nevada and Oregon — was on a delivery route in northern California and missed his turn.

Gregg Wallick could have pulled from either his 35 years of experience as a roofing contractor or his gridiron glory days as captain of the University of Miami Hurricanes to close out the 2015 Best of Success seminar in Phoenix.

As a third-generation roofing contractor who grew up in and around the family business that he ultimately took over, John Kalkreuth appreciates the need for developing homegrown talent.

John T. Scalo and Richard ‘Duke’ Burns shared a business plan and vision to excel at whatever they did when it came to roofs.

One problem in cutting price is that you cut price on customers who will buy the job anyway.

Always look for potential employees the same way that you're always looking for jobs.