For those of you who hate writing business letters, Service Round Table has provided an extensive resource will ease the burden.

The Service Roundtable obtained a special license from Eshinesoft Corporation to make these ready-to-go, easy-to-modify standard business letters available online for our members and potential members. Cut and paste any letter into your word processor.

Why Free? Why is the Service Roundtable making this letter library available for free when others charge for it? Simple.

The library is accessible here for both SRT members and non-members. There are tons of letters here, but the search field makes it easy to find what you’re looking for. Once you find the right letter, you can paste it into a Word document and fill in the blanks.

You can use these letters in your business correspondence, and if you’re an ESC user, you can save the templates you use regularly right into ESC. If you’re not an ESC customer, you can sign up for the 30-day free trial to see how ESC can make your correspondence with your customers more efficient.

Most of you in the service industry, especially those of you in HVAC, know who Ron Smith is. Many of you have probably heard him speak or have read his book HVAC Spells Wealth, which is now in its eighth printing.

HVAC Light Commercial Service Agreements

The book is recognized as the definitive ”How To” book of the HVAC service industry.

In addition to his book and speaking engagements. Ron Smith also has a website that’s packed with useful articles and information for owners and manager of HVAC companies.

On his website, Ron Smith has also recommended a handful of products for HVAC professionals including dESCO’s ESC. We’re proud to be among the few companies that have made the cut.

dESCO and its owner, Dean Schreiner, has had a long standing relationship with Ron Smith. Ron Smith got his start in the HVAC industry with the company he founded, Modern Air Conditioning.  He Started Modern Air in 1961 in Fort Myers, FL (which happens to be where dESCO has its headquarters).

Since then Ron has owned, grown, and sold several HVAC companies as well as companies like Ron Smith & Associates  Service Experts which work to help HVAC companies reach their potential.

Now Ron consults and coaches contractors and distributors. He is also the author of the bestselling book HVAC Spells Wealth and the book HVAC Light Commercial Service Agreements.

We’re happy to have Ron’s support and to have him as a partner in our business.

Intuit, the makers of QuickBooks announced in a recent press release that they believe small business employment is rebounding.

Small businesses are showing signs of an economic rebound. This is the main finding of the just-released Intuit Small Business Employment Index, a new, monthly report that provides unique, near real-time insight into employment trends of the smallest of small businesses.

via Intuit Press Release – Small Business Employment Showing Signs of Rebounding.

This is good news for many of the nations unemployed as they seek new jobs.

However, the Intuit index indicated hourly compensation has been mostly of the past several months and has actually declined recently.

About the Index

The Intuit Small Business Employment Index is based on online data from approximately 50,000 small business employers with fewer than 20 employees who use Intuit Online Payroll. Intuit reports data for three categories: small business employment, compensation and hours worked. Intuit will analyze and publish the data at the beginning of each month.

We’re curious. Is your company hiring again? Are employees working more hours? Leave your feed back in the comments.