Blog Category: Business Insights

Any industry needs a robust workforce to function –technology, manufacturing, agriculture, energy and power, health care and countless others- labor makes everything tick. This goes without saying in the construction market, one of the most labor-intensive of all industries and particularly in the electrical contracting sector, requiring highly-skilled professionals. Since 1901, the National Electrical Contractors […]

Each year businesses lose billions in sales by not appearing everywhere they can be online. That’s a lot of money to put down the drain simply because you’re not managing your online reputation. But if you’re reading this it’s probably because you’re aware of how important building an online reputation is and you’ve heard that […]

Wearable technology is a growing trend for gadget lovers. Over the 2014 holiday season, products such as fitness and wellness trackers, watches synced to smart phones and low-impact cameras were vastly popular. The wearable industry is worth more than $11 billion and is slated to grow over the next decade to upwards of $50 billion. […]

It’s been a rocky road to recovery, but the economic outlook was much more positive in 2014 and so far, the same holds true in 2015. According to ENR, construction in 2015 began with upbeat employment numbers –the industry added 39,000 jobs in January, pushing the unemployment rate down to 9.8 percent, well below the […]

It goes without saying that bridges are important. No matter what your mode of travel, bridges are often the only way to get across a river, train tracks, a busy highway, or maybe even a canyon, gorge or gully. Without bridges, just getting to work or going to the grocery store could take several days instead […]

As a business professional and construction executive, you’re probably wondering why you need to create content. After all, you build amazing structures and wow people with your ability to use any piece of heavy equipment you happen to cross paths with, and that should be enough to gain new clients — right? Wrong. As impressive your skills […]

For many, it’s been all too easy to write off video-gamers as wasting their time. How could the successful retrieval of the Sword of a Thousand Truths land a guy a job? Why would countless hours of Diablo II make for a promising new hire? Yet hand-eye coordination skills stand to benefit from gaming in […]