Since my first job as a secretary and data tech back in the 1980’s, I have been working on computers. When your computer freezes up – you call IT. Inevitably the first thing you hear – “Did you try turning …
This is part 3 of Barb’s certification series. Click here to read part 1: “You Must Use Me, I’m a Certified Business” and here to read part 2: “Which Certifications Do I Need to Get?”. The term “Good Faith Efforts” …
Gunnar Electric shares how they have hired a number of their fellow AWC members to get the job done: Stay Shaw with Boyum Barensheer was hired to review yearly financials for Gunnar. Joe Zandlo with Minneapolis Financial Group was hired …
Vice President Kendra Kron, with InSite Contracting, shares how her business partners with fellow board member Erika Scherman of MC Tool & Safety: “InSite has worked with MC Tool & Safety the past few years to ramp up the construction …
For some this is a lightbulb moment, and others it might be a good refresher. We are 35+ years into the digital age, yet for some online marketing is still a mystery. I was at a meet and greet and …
This is part 2 of Barb’s certification series. Click here to read part 1: “You Must Use Me, I’m a Certified Business”. Did you know that in Minnesota there are 6 women owned business certifications applicable to our industry? Just …
Crystal Dulas shares how her company, Dulas Excavating, works together with fellow member GM Contracting: “Over the years, Dulas Excavating and GM Contracting have collaborated on a number of projects together. Whether Dulas is the general contractor or GM is …
I feel like I am the squeakiest wheel in town on this issue and quite frankly it would be too expensive to oil this wheel right now due to fuel escalation! Last year when I started advocating for the pandemic …
“You must use me — I’m a certified business!” I have heard this phrase way too often in the past 13 years. I work hard to train Association of Women Contractors (AWC) members about what certification means and what it …
Member Kristi Marsh hired O’Neill Electric to install some new light fixtures in her personal home: “I own a 1941 home that we have up been gradually updating over the last 6 years. I met Ashley from O’Neill Electric through …