Category: Business Practices
How to Use the Web to Grow Your Business and Get New Customers, Before Your Competition Does [Webinar]
Date: Tuesday, May 12, 2015 Time: 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM (EDT) Early Bird Registration $395 (Save $100 before April 15) Regular Registration $495 (ticket sales start April 16) Do you feel like you’re falling behind because you don’t know or understand how to use your website, content marketing and social media to grow your business? Are…
Precision and Accuracy in Geodetic Surveying Video by NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey and The COMET Program
This brief video, produced in collaboration between NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey and The COMET Program, is aimed at surveying professionals, planners, policy-makers and others who use mapping products. The video emphasizes that survey measurements need to be precise as well as verified as accurate by relating measurements to a known reference system such as the…
ConsensusDocs Coalition Releases New Land Survey Standard Agreement
WASHINGTON – Owners and land surveyors will have a standard agreement to guide their contracting now that the ConsensusDocs Coalition is publishing a new Land Survey Agreement. The new agreement is designed to meet the unique characteristics of land surveying, which is an essential part of many road and building projects.
Busting Myth #4 About The FAA and Unmanned Aircraft
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) published a list Busting Myths about the FAA and Unmanned Aircraft to discuss misconceptions and misinformation about Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) regulations. As UAS, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) or drones, if you will, become ever more popular for recreational and eventual commercial use, I thought it would be helpful to share…
Busting Myth #3 About The FAA and Unmanned Aircraft
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) published a list Busting Myths about the FAA and Unmanned Aircraft to discuss misconceptions and misinformation about Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) regulations. As UAS, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) or drones, if you will, become ever more popular for recreational and eventual commercial use, I thought it would be helpful to share…
Busting Myth #2 About The FAA and Unmanned Aircraft
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) published a list Busting Myths about the FAA and Unmanned Aircraft to discuss misconceptions and misinformation about Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) regulations. As UAS, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) or drones, if you will, become ever more popular for recreational and eventual commercial use, I thought it would be helpful to share…
Busting Myth #1 About The FAA and Unmanned Aircraft
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) published a list Busting Myths about the FAA and Unmanned Aircraft to discuss misconceptions and misinformation about Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) regulations. As UAS, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) or drones, if you will, become ever more popular for recreational and eventual commercial use, I thought it would be helpful to share…
How To Choose the Right Projects To Earn More
How do you know the right projects to work on at the right time? This is a PLS Newsletter topic on following the money to achieve success. Sign up for the PLS Newsletter today! In business and life there are really only two important commodities: time and smarts. Of those two, time is in very limited…
The Professional Land Surveyor Podcast Episode 15
Online Session on UAS Test Site Privacy Policy – FAA UAS Online Listening Session Audio. The FAA held an online public engagement session to provide the public with an opportunity to comment on the agency’s proposed privacy policy for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). The FAA provided a brief overview of the UAS test site program…
Professional Land Surveyor Survey: Land Surveying Business Outlook September 2013?
PLS Survey: Land Surveying Business Outlook September 2013? Are you seeing any improvements in the business climate, no change at a all, or is the business climate worsening? After you take the survey, please leave a comment. Take the Professional Land Surveyor Survey:
Improve Systems and Procedures for Success
This article comes from the latest free Professional Land Surveyor Newsletter. To subscribe, click here. Last week, I wrote a premium article called “Silos Kill Business” about (surprise, surprise) how surveying and business silos undermine your success. What I didn’t discuss there, but that is so important, is that you need a clear understanding of your…
Silos Kill Business
Silos and paraprofessional competence/utilization are two of the biggest problems undermining our industry. In this Premium Post let’s look at silos and how they’re killing your business. The Oxford Dictionary defines silos as follows: noun (plural silos) a system, process, department, etc. that operates in isolation from others:it’s vital that team members step out of…
Selling Surveying: Customer Call Back Timing
Business 101 for any business, including land surveying, includes many basic building blocks for success. One such area is our timing for potential customer call back. In this premium post I’ll share with you why your customer callback timing is so important, current customer call back timing trends, and how to improve your customer call back…
The Professional Land Surveyor Podcast Episode 14
Subscribe to this podcast You can subscribe to this podcast via iTunes, grab the RSS feed or play from the website. The Professional Land Surveyor Podcast (PLSP) Shownotes – Episode 14
Working With Expanded And Improved Teams
Premium Post How do you view your work environment and teams? In many companies, team organization and team building is centered and focused around tightly knit internal silos, although I believe this is changing at light speed. Well, they’re sometimes more geographically tight-knit than they are tight-knit in an effective and emotionally compatible manner. Do…
Executive Director of the National Society of Professional Surveyors Davis-Bacon Act Testimony at House Education and the Workforce Committee Hearing
Curtis Sumner, Executive Director of the National Society of Professional Surveyors (NSPS), testifies at House Education and the Workforce Committee hearing on June 19, 2013 concerning the Davis-Bacon act. Watch the Davis-Bacon Act Testimony Video
The Professional Land Surveyor Podcast Episode 13
Subscribe to this podcast You can subscribe to this podcast via iTunes, grab the RSS feed or play from the website. The Professional Land Surveyor Podcast (PLSP) Shownotes – Episode 13
The Professional Land Surveyor Podcast Episode 10 Motivational Monday: Focused Organization of Boundary Surveying Monuments
The Professional Land Surveyor Podcast (PLSP) Shownotes – Episode 10
The Professional Land Surveyor Podcast Episode 9
The Professional Land Surveyor Podcast (PLSP) Shownotes – Episode 9
Increase Your Land Surveying Business With Improved Marketing and Customer Communication Strategies
Marketing your land surveying business and services is not something you can ignore, anymore. Talk to most land surveying business owners at the height of the real estate bubble and you’d likely discover very little, if any, marketing and customer outreach on their part. Jump ahead a year or two into the height of the Great…