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Preventative Maintenance Agreements: A Great Thing Deserves Great Execution

Preventative Maintenance Agreements: A Great Thing Deserves Great Execution Guest writer Dale Hanna continues his writing on preventative maintenance with this week’s blog post – “Preventative Maintenance Agreements: A Great Thing Deserves Great Execution.” In our last blog, Preventative Maintenance Agreements – A Necessary Hero, we spoke about the important contributions PM agreements can make to […]

Is the Preventative Maintenance Business Part of Your Business Plan?

Is the Preventative Maintenance Business Part of Your Business Plan? Guest writer Bill Pyles writes this week’s blog post on preventative maintenance: is the preventative maintenance business part of your business plan? I sure hope the answer is a resounding yes! The PM business adopted by OEM equipment dealers goes back to the 1980s and […]

Intellectual Capital

Intellectual Capital In this week’s Lifelong Learning post, Founder and Managing Member Ron Slee continues to look at employees as assets. Read on to learn about Intellectual Capital. In an earlier post on Lifelong Learning, I posed a question to you – “Are your employee’s assets or expenses?” I hope every one of you said […]

Friday Filosophy v.10.07.2022

Friday Filosophy v.10.07.2022 John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes, CB, FBA; (5 June 1883 – 21 April 1946) was an English economist whose ideas fundamentally changed the theory and practice of macroeconomics and the economic policies of governments. Originally trained in mathematics, he built on and greatly refined earlier work on the causes of business cycles. One of the most influential economists of the 20th […]

Preventative Maintenance

Preventative Maintenance This week, our guest writer Dale Hanna delivers another powerful blog post, this time on the multiple benefits of preventative maintenance. Service revenue has been the most important contributor to the bottom line for many dealers.  When a strong demand for equipment coupled with a shortage of new equipment, service becomes even more […]

Bite-Sized Pieces

Bite-Sized Pieces Curriculum designer Caroline Slee-Poulos joins us for this week’s instalment on Lifelong Learning: Bite-Sized Pieces. I don’t know about all of you, but I do know that when I was growing up my mom always made sure to correct me when I tried to eat extra-large bites of food. I was often guilty […]