We live in a noisy world. Can you even remember what it was like to be bored? So often, I talk with people who get to the end of their day and wonder what they even did. We are busier than ever, but busyness does not equal productivity. I think we all understand the difference….

This is a Keynote that I gave recently for the OHPBA Spring Conference, it’s the same as the one I gave in Nashville for HPB Expo and in Seattle for NWHPBA recently. I’m relentless that most hearth company’s are wasting thousands of dollars each year because of poor marketing, ineffective sales practices and bad leadership….

I was asked to share about the current state of the hearth industry so I put together some thoughts and titled it “The Way it Is”. That may be a little bit brash, being that it’s just one persons perspective, but that year I had traveled all around the country and feel that I had…