The right employee and job scheduling software can change your life as a contractor, whether you do plumbing, HVAC, electrical, or related services. But how do you choose the right software tools for your contracting business? At 360e, we’ll help you understand what to look for in a scheduling software. Manage a Growing Business Effortlessly? [...]

Your plumbing business has plenty of room to grow, or it would—if you had more time. Maybe you’d like an office assistant and dispatcher or scheduler, a field supervisor, a billing bookkeeper, and/or a marketing person to bring in more leads. Most small businesses can’t afford to hire all of (or any of) those people! [...]

Growth has always been—on some level—equivalent to adding complexity, even risk, to your business. More clients and/or a higher retention rate means success in many ways, of course. But it also means more names, more numbers, more scheduling; in the end, it means managing your business becomes harder and harder, which quickly leads to inefficient [...]

Regardless of what success looks like to your electrical contractor business, growth and stability are the metrics you’ll use most often to determine the quality of your company overall. In both these regards, it is only natural to find a point where you hit a wall. Typically, a business will stagnate when it simply doesn’t [...]

You’ve likely heard a fair bit about service management software at this point. And maybe, as an electrical contractor, your interest is piqued. But in the end, choosing to take advantage of new tech always boils down to the why. Why should you use management software for electricians? The following are five strong reasons. Take [...]

Plenty of home services companies are highly adept at maintaining a solid status quo in terms of current business. Enabling your business to grow and evolve, however … that can be a good deal tougher. How do you determine the best ways to grow? How do you know where you need to bolster your efforts? [...]

The job market just keeps getting more competitive. Wouldn’t you like to have an easy-to-use software solution to keep your competitive edge sharp? In today’s marketplace, it’s more difficult for a contractor to stay on top of all the job specifics without the right service contractor software. From scheduling to accounting and project management, contractor [...]

Whether you’re running an electrical company or another home services business, how you deal with your day-to-day job management issues will have a huge impact on your overall success. Don’t make the mistake of trying to juggle all of the changes that plague job schedules on a daily basis! With the right job tracking software, [...]

When you have an electrical contracting business, inefficiencies in the workplace do more than waste time—they waste money. When a business wastes money, operating expenses increase and profits decrease. To reduce small business expenses, you must take a hard, honest look at your operations to identify inefficient processes and implement corrective actions, such as the [...]