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.

During a special panel discussion at the 2015 Best of Success seminar, experts in the use and development of drones for commercial purposes kept most roofing contractors on the edge of their seats while discussing the fledgling technology.

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.

About two dozen roofing contractors stepped out from the scheduled presentations late in the afternoon of day one of the 2015 Best of Success to make history.

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.

Roofing contractors from around the country are helping support the McFarlin family with GoFundMe page.