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RIA Requests Dedicated Material Handling Line Items in Xactimate Pricing Database

The Restoration Industry Association (RIA) has formally submitted a request to the Verisk Solutions/Xactware Pricing...
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Reets Drying Academy Launches AI Assistant Ask Reets

Reets Drying Academy, which has trained water damage restoration professionals for more than 20 years,...
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Most Workers Say Leadership Makes Decisions They Don’t Understand

A recent nationwide Howdy.com survey of full-time workers uncovered just how deep the worker-leadership divide...
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Over Half Would Stop Using AI if it Required Payment

A new Howdy consumer sentiment survey on artificial intelligence (AI) adoption among Americans found trends...
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New California Law Creates Standards for Wildfire Smoke Testing and Remediation

On Tuesday, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a package of legislation to strengthen California’s long-term wildfire recovery...
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Voda Cleaning & Restoration Reaches 300 Franchise Territories Just Three Years After National Launch

Voda Cleaning & Restoration has awarded its 300th franchise territory, reaching a significant expansion milestone just...

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When Success Doesn’t Feel Like Success

A full schedule and a wall of five-star reviews don’t guarantee an owner who likes the life the company built. The books look great. The schedule is full. The crew is busy, and the reviews keep landing at five stars. Then the owner pulls into the driveway at 7 p.m., shuts off the engine and sits there for a minute. Something is off, and it’s hard to say what.

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Paid Ads Can Work!

Many carpet cleaning business owners treat paid ads like slot machines. You put a quarter in and expect a dollar to fall out. You launch a campaign, you wait for the phone to ring, and you tell yourself the jobs are about to roll in. Then the opposite happens. The leads don’t show, the budget disappears, and the return isn’t there. Frustration sets in, and once it passes, you are left staring at the same question: What now?

Mark Exner

Confronting Fabric Cleaning Issues Once and For All

At last week’s Experience Convention and Trade Show in Las Vegas, Mark Exner, owner and founder of Restoration Training Services, encouraged attendees to trust their training. With so many fabric products in the world, he asked attendees why they were afraid to clean them. “The fear is ridiculous,” said fellow trainer Thomas Cermak, who attended.…

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A Framework for Cleaning That Saves Lives

At the Experience Convention and Trade Show last week in Las Vegas, Dr. Gavin Macgregor-Skinner, Senior Director of ISSA, and RJ Patel, founder of PCT Clean and PCT Janitorial in Atlanta, described how a four-stage exploration, preparation, implementation and sustainment (EPIS) framework outlines stages of evidence-based cleaning procedures that helped a children’s hospital in Suva, Fiji, significantly improve how they clean.

The impact of IICRC government relations and advocacy efforts

Certified to Advocate: Taking Restoration’s Story to Washington

Philip Kahn-Pauli didn’t want to be just another lobbyist walking the halls of Congress on behalf of an industry he’d never worked in. Before he started building relationships with lawmakers as the Institute of Inspection, Cleaning and Restoration Certification’s new Director of Government Relations and Advocacy, he went and got his hands wet. Literally.

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How Restoration Contractors Can Dominate Online

The contractors keeping their trucks on the road year-round are the ones who built a system that tells Google exactly what work they want, where they want it and why they can be trusted to handle it and then use that system deliberately instead of waiting to see what the weather sends their way.

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RIA Requests Dedicated Material Handling Line Items in Xactimate Pricing Database

The Restoration Industry Association (RIA) has formally submitted a request to the Verisk Solutions/Xactware Pricing Team calling for the addition...
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Reets Drying Academy Launches AI Assistant Ask Reets

Reets Drying Academy, which has trained water damage restoration professionals for more than 20 years, launched Ask Reets, an artificial...
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Over Half Would Stop Using AI if it Required Payment

A new Howdy consumer sentiment survey on artificial intelligence (AI) adoption among Americans found trends of reluctant adoption and an...
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Reins to Offer Alternative Equity Solutions to CORE Group’s Members

Reins, a technology firm dedicated to empowering privately owned businesses through alternative equity solutions, strategically partnered with CORE Group. The...

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