I spoke with quit a few pool builders this past week and in nearly every case pricing came up very quickly. The discussions quickly turned to competition, everyone slashing prices etc, etc...

In the pool industry this has been experienced many times

What I Learned About Selling From…Movie Super Villains?

The bad guys have the art of increasing effectiveness down to a science.

Article | Wed, 12/29/2010 - 23:00

By Russell Riendeau, Ph.D., founder, East Wing Group, Inc.

Who’s your favorite movie villai

We seem to be in a bubble here in Richland, WA, the economic slowdown has had little affect on us here.  We have been signing pool contracts for pool installations, yesterday alone we had 4 new pool customers in the store, it was 15 degrees so it was

Pool Maintenance Mistakes

Don't Make These Common Swimming Pool Mistakes

From Kevin Woodhurst, for About.com

If you have your own swimming pool, you are one of the lucky ones. In Phoenix, some people use their swiming pools all year long. Swimming po

Beware of diving board dangers

Kevin Woodhurst

Jul. 23, 2005 12:00 AM

This year more than ever I have done major renovations of existing pools, and many of them were older diving pools that did not meet a diving pool standard. In at least two cases it

MERRY CHRISTMAS

I need to tell you a little story, but first you need to know a background fact about Flexible Solutions:

We are a very pet friendly company. Our head office has 2 dogs who make sure we are always in high spirits and our Accounting Office has anywher

Mark Urban,  innovator and manufacturer of the Flow Reversal Valves,Share A Heater, and the Fireplug Valves passed away December 11th 2010 of bone cancer.  Feel free to post a memory or share a memory of Mark.

Details go to MarkUrban

Check out one of our videos showing a running Pentair Intelliflow Pump with an overview by Pentair. Then you can check us out at FrankBowman.com

Just how much do swimming pool chemicals add to the total dissolved solids (TDS) content of the water? Do all chemicals of equal amounts (by weight) add identical amounts of TDS to swimming pool water?

When one pound of a chemical is added to 2

I just finished reading an article about converting leads into customers.

Conversion is a word that is thrown around in the marketing world with abandon, and can actually make or
break a company. Unfortunately most of us don't have a clue what our conv

I have recently been reading a lot about Tailgating – the age old tradition of hanging out in a parking lot, drinking, eating and having a gay old time. Generally enjoyed before and after a sporting event.

Tailgating is very popular, I hear, and I can