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We know that when you send out your technicians, you want them to spend as little time on the road as possible. However, if you don’t strategically plan your business’ daily routes, then they’ll spend too little time completing work orders and too much money on fuel and travel expenses. By utilizing the tips below, you can streamline your operations to enhance productivity, decrease costs and increase your overall earnings.

When first starting your business, generating consistent cash flow can be difficult. Over the years, our team at Commercial Fire has been lucky enough to work with hundreds of FEDs. Here are a few things we have seen make the biggest difference in creating and maintaining long-term, stable businesses.

The Fire and Life Safety industry is highly competitive, so it is crucial to stay ahead of the pack for sustainable growth. While there are numerous strategies that exist for expanding your business, this article will outline three approaches we believe can help your Fire and Life Safety company go from survive to thrive.

Staying ahead of the curve is essential to being a well-rounded fire safety company. Following the fleet management best practices, below, will help your service company increase productivity and grow your business.

Vehicle Fleet Maintenance

Taking time out of the day to maintain your fleet may seem inconvenient. However, this proves to be worth it in the long run. Keeping your vehicles in shape increases their life span and ensures the safety of your technicians.

Do you want your business to level up and become unbeatable? Then you’ll be excited about this!

As a Commercial Fire Affiliate Partner, the Commercial Fire Connection Online Portal and Mobile App not only provide a space to manage all of your jobs in one place but also help you get paid faster, and facilitate better communication with customers. Other benefits include:

BACKFLOW - Backflow is simply a reversal of the average water flow—from the customer side of the meter into the water system. It can happen due to water pressure differences or sudden changes in pressure. It can allow contaminants to be pumped or siphoned back into buildings’ plumbing system and, potentially, the public water supply. These situations occur if normal pressures are interrupted by a water main break, a power failure, or some other disruption in water service. 

A building’s automatic fire sprinkler system is a water piping network with discharge devices to spray water to control a fire until the fire department arrives. The discharge devices are called automatic sprinklers. When a fire occurs in a building, sprinklers operate automatically immediately after their heat-activated element reaches a predetermined operating temperature. Once operated from the heat of a fire, water is released out of the sprinkler opening in a spray pattern designed to extinguish the fire in the immediate area of fire origin. Most people don’t know that only one or two sprinklers within the fire typically operate as that’s where there is sufficient heat to trigger the operation of those sprinklers.

The article, “Should You Be Doing National Account Work?” was written by Bill Dayton, Director of Affiliate Network at Commercial Fire, and covers the questions every kitchen hood exhaust cleaning (KEC) company owner must ask when deciding if national account company (NAC) work makes sense for their business. 

Highlights include benefits, such as consistent cash flow and zero acquisition cost, more productive and efficient routes, access to work at larger businesses, uncomplicated business growth, and trade-offs (revenue sharing with the NAC, strict compliance requirements, phone call volume, paperwork, and IVR). 

“Should you decide that NAC work is right for your business, you now have some considerations. There may be long-term value in having NAC work as part of your overall business model,” said Dayton. 

To read the full article, visit the IKECA Journal. 

Commercial Fire proudly supports IKECA as an Active North American Kitchen Exhaust Cleaning Company Member.

You’ve seen it a million times in movies and TV shows – a small fire breaks out, and a heroic character grabs a Fire Extinguisher and puts out the flames before they can grow larger. But here is the problem: in the real world, if the Fire Extinguisher isn’t properly maintained and charged when our hero grabs it, it won’t work.