WSA Member Update 5.15.17

The May 15th WSA Member Update contains the following info: • Link to sign up to attend the WSA Sweeper Roundup • Request for sponsorship for Sweeper Roundup • Reminder and link to poster about Memorial Scholarship applications • Safety meeting info for May from John Meola

WSA Member Update 5.1.17

• WSA Sweeper Roundup signup form to be sent out soon. • Automatic credit card renewal billing now available for WSA Memberships • Have a question? Try the WSA websites search area, just above where you enter your login info • Buyers’ Guide to GPS added to WSA website • California now designates parking lot sweeping as ‘janitorial’ for workers’ comp.

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WSA Member Update 4.15.17

WSA Update for April 15th: • Discusses WSA’s upcoming Sweeper Roundup • Notifies Members that OSHA’s Crystalline Silica Standard enactment has been delayed for 90 days. • Reminds Members to enter PAVEMENT Magazine’s 2017 Top Sweeping Contractor awards. • Notifies about topics for our April Safety First! section. • Includes a link to a free webinar about employee benefits • Has a link re: our April Fool’s Day story showing a YouTube video of a baby elephant picking up litter.

WSA Member Update 4.1.17

This WSA Update includes: • A reminder to apply for PAVEMENT Magazine’s Top Sweeping Contractors list before April 21st. • A link to an April Fool’s Day joke Members can mail to their own clients. • A ‘preview link’ to an article on how to lower Workers’ Comp. expenses. • A reminder to save the dates September 15-17 for attending the WSA Roundup in Kansas City.

OSHA Silica Rule Overview — Webinar 3.17

WSA Member Update 3.15.17

This issue of the WSA Update includes: • First announcement of the scheduled WSA Roundup for September 15-17, 2017 • Call for committee members for liability reduction committee • Announcing Mike Musto’s 1-800-SWEEPING as a WSA benefit • Notice about Eastern Benefits Group’s March 28th webinar on conducting legal background checks • John Meola’s monthly Safety First! tips • URL locations for WSA’s sponsored NPE videos • URL location for WSA’s ASA webinar on the upcoming OSHA Silica Rule

WSA Member Update 3.1.17

This WSA Update includes: • News and link to PAVEMENT Magazine’s online application for Top Sweeping Contractor Awards • Question from Member about how to deal with customers that require call in/call out on a jobsite with or without their app • News about ASA’s Silica Dust webinar and that we will have an on-demand link next issue. • Elgin has modified its agreement with WSA to be less stringent about parts buying at a 20% discount through its dealers • Reminder to have a Will/business transfer plan in place • News that Integrated Services Group now operating as Command7

How to Develop Sales Compensation Plans for Small- and Mid-Size Businesses

This 1.5 hour video presentation by Senior Consultant, Harry Schum, MBA, of Compensation Resources, guides contractors in how they can find solutions for one of the more difficult challenges in business: developing the correct compensation plan for employees, with an emphasis on salespersons.

How to Grow a Smooth-Running, Profitable Multimillion-Dollar Company

This link includes an approximately 1.5-hour video of a presentation by Bill Silverman, a dynamic speaker who definitely knows his stuff. With a background in the Marriott organization, his presentation is modeled after the manner in which Bill Marriott grew his business into the worldwide organization it is today. As Silverman points out, in order to achieve business growth that is sustainable, as well as modular such that it holds together as you grow, you need to have a basic platform in place at each level of your operation’s size.