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 With this month’s Roofing Contractor focus on distribution and the supply chain, I thought it would be important to talk about how your local distributor can be an important partner in building a successful and sustainable roofing business.  

 According to the NRCA, the average profit for a roofing contracting company is 2.8 percent.  

The following is a collection of miscellaneous thoughts and ideas accumulated over 30 years of business consulting; possibly they will prove helpful to you:

It never fails: change is hard. Even when most everything goes well, it is hard. 

Any employer who has faced potential class-action wage-and-hour lawsuits knows what a headache they can be. 

 Money is either made or lost in the operations division of any company. It’s often the most overlooked area of the roofing business.  

 I had an opportunity last month to participate in a webinar with a leading roof consultant who turned my idea of roof maintenance upside down 

 Along with underfunded corporate and public pensions, many union pensions are massively in the red. For employers who have union workers who participate in these types of multi-employer pension plans, the growing liability involved with withdrawing from pension funds presents a serious issue.  

 While I have written about complaints in the past, it continues to be an area of interest and concern. In