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Evanston, WY—Dwayne Willard owner of Champion Services left behind Louisiana oil rigs for the big skies of Wyoming. Dwayne is proud to call Wyoming his home. Dwayne’s roughneck life was traded to start a successful company with a number one priority in keeping his customers safe and comfortable! Champion Services, a family-owned business, is more than just an HVAC company. With two locations in Evanston, Wyoming and Ogden, Utah, Champion Services offers a complete line of electrical, plumbing, water treatment, and drain cleaning services as well. Owner and operator, Dwayne Willard and his staff, is ready to serve all your residential needs.
Willard's personal story begins at an early age while helping at his father's electrical business in Louisiana when he was 10 years old. In time, his dad took a position at Chevron Oil Company and was transferred to Wyoming while Willard, upon graduating high school, started working on an offshore oil rig in Louisiana. With much dedication, Willard worked his way up to being a derrickman and then was trained as a driller. “It was hard, challenging and dangerous work,” Willard mentioned in our exclusive interview with NYnewsyork.com, "but it taught me the importance of commitment to a job well-done." With time off from the oil rig, Willard drove to Wyoming to visit his father. He immediately fell in love with this spectacular part of the country while hiking and camping in the area. Not long after, he packed up his things and moved to Wyoming for good.
Despite never really expecting to go into the electrical business, Willard decided this would be the best direction to take to build his new life out west. After a four-year apprenticeship, Willard passed his journeyman test. He continued his studies to acquire his Master Electrical License for Wyoming, Utah, Idaho and Colorado. He has since earned his general contractor’s license and HVAC Masters as well as a Plumber Masters license as well.
In 1999, Willard began working at his father-in-law’s plumbing business, Champion Services, a company founded in 1982. In 2009, Willard purchased the business from his father-in-law and has since expanded the services to include HVAC and electrical.
Champion Services, is currently serving the southwest areas of Wyoming, including Evanston, Kemmerer, Mountain View and Lyman as well as the Wasatch Front of Utah, encompassing Ogden, Logan and Salt Lake City areas. The company handles all electrical, plumbing, heating, cooling, water systems, and more.
Champion Services is 100% residential, concentrating on its mantra “One Call to Fix it All." Champion Services provides…the vital things that make you comfortable!
Champion Services also has satellite offices and shops in Mountain View and Kemmerer.
You can find out more about the business Champion Services on their comprehensive website:
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SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, CA-- Mike McDonough of Business Certainty is busy connecting with his existing insurance services’ clients these days. He wants each of them to know about Business Certainty, the venture he recently launched as a division of McDonough Insurance Services.
“We invest in people,” stated McDonough, adding that his formula helps businesses grow by removing their chaos with certainty while mitigating their risks.
Business Certainty is now a big and exciting part of the McDonough’s Insurance Services offering!
“The values and services I have been providing for more than three decades as McDonough Insurance Services are being strengthened and enhanced to impact over 10,000 businesses in 50 states.” McDonough stated in our exclusive interview with NYnewsyork.com “We are branching out nationally and this can be accomplished in a decade or less!” McDonough added.
Since individual businesses have different levels of chaos, McDonough and his team provide customized solutions, but only when their problems, frustrations or chaos are clearly identified.
McDonough explained that all the fixing happens when we become aware of what is happening inside our minds. Business Certainty is all about ways to improve bottom line profits using “intelligent mind growth”.
You must invest in people, be a strategic partner, improve systems and put happiness back in peoples’ lives. By people, Mike means anyone involved in any part of any business. McDonough states “Removing the chaos will ultimately lead to more harmony in all our endeavors”.
Asked how McDonough came up with the idea, Mike answered, “Decades of seeing business owners struggle with clarity, confidence, control and certainty in their business.”
McDonough, through his years of industry experience, knows there is a real opportunity for Business Certainty and that he and his team of professionals will deliver a myriad of improvements to their clients in the area of workers compensation. Mike understands what he refers to as their “pain points”.
“One of the keys to helping clients is to define how they’ll benefit from clarity and confidence by ‘cracking the code’ to yield real business wealth.” said McDonough.
“No one is addressing the problems or providing real solutions.” McDonough mentions. “I take clients from chaos to certainty by reducing their risk, providing resources, removing chaos, and creating certainty.”
“With no systematic method to quantify the cost of unbridled uncertainty in a business,” he said he looks at his clients’ operations from top-to-bottom to identify what’s going on in order to precipitate change.
While McDonough said he’d never turn very small business owners away as clients, firms with at least 25 employees can usually benefit the most.
That’s because growth always brings more chaos to a business and mitigation is highly needed.
Asked for an overview of the risk element, he cited one example of a construction company that is doing as many as 20 jobs a day, commercial or residential.
“It all comes back to collaborating with all your resources to make sure you are putting safety first and foremost,” Mike said adding that the mindset of the company’s service culture should be studied.
For example, he determines whether or not technicians are going out into the field properly controlled. Have workers been given ladder training? Safety harness, or confined safety training when working underground among other training? Is there adequate ventilation at each worksite to meet government requirements?
McDonough highlighted how expansion requires constant control.
Business Certainty's work reducing overall risks increases the value of any business, while providing control through the various phases of expansion, McDonough stated.
Business Certainty's Team is bilingual as needed in certain geographic areas, understands many industry cultures and strives to remove stress and uncertainty, while putting workers at ease.
“Why not collaborate more with your human resources department and your labor attorney?” added McDonough, who acknowledged that many companies he’s worked with do not have HR departments, are typically out of compliance, have high turnover rates and send new employees out to work with no training.
McDonough found that most of the agencies he reviewed cite similar scenarios while offering little to no substance about building wealth-growth for their clients. Business Certainty addresses these problems and always provides solutions.
Still, Mike knows that mindset. “It's more about them than their own clients,” so Mike and his team went to work and created Business Certainty.
“A quick example is Hurricane Ian and all the uncertainty a natural disaster prompts!
Are we entering a recession or are we already in one?”
While the energy going into questions like that can be draining, the goal is simply to identify as much chaos as possible.
“If you don’t have certainty than what you have is chaos! It’s about investing in people, supporting them and systematically improving morale!
Things can rapidly turn around.”
Visit www.McDonoughInsuranceServices.com for more information.
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STOCKTON, CA-- California homeowners are surprised to learn the former NASCAR driver Jason Kerby has become a winner in a different race. Jason has become a successful business owner helping homeowners with their heating, air conditioning, electrical and plumbing. Homeowners are enjoying the benefits of Jason’s business J&J Services as well his commitment to give back to the community.
Jason Kerby’s grandfather was the reason he chose to become a business owner and entrepreneur, striving to be the best in his field…When Jason was a youngster, visiting his grandfather during summer vacations, he would enjoy following his grandfather around and watch him run his landscaping business. As a teen, Jason already knew he wanted to become a successful business owner like his grandfather and began his journey in order to make his dream a reality.
Jason tried his hand at various professions, including his own small landscaping business, an equipment operator. Jason’s grandfather’s business was downsizing at that point and offered to open a shop for himself and Jason to work on race cars! The actual shop was too large for their small company and so they rented half the space to an HVAC company.
Jason, someone with a strong work ethic and keeping that vision of entrepreneurship in his mind, ended up working for that HVAC company and was mentored there to become a team leader. Jason knew he was on the right track, tasting what it was like to be “the boss”, having the freedom to run your own business and what it was like to learn by even making mistakes. All this experience was setting the stage for J&J Services in getting back to the winners circle.
Still, Jason needed to get his licenses in order to truly know and understand what being a successful contractor is all about. He studied, took classes and over time became licensed as a California Contractor in Heating and Air, Electrical, Plumbing, and General B License. Jason also opened himself up to coaching and mentoring by Mike Agugliaro. Mike is a recognized business expert, author and speaker.
Jason, along with his wife Jennifer, his son Ryan and family, still lives in the Stockton, California area and are active in their community of Galt! Jason is a member of the Executive Board of the local Chamber of Commerce there, which supports a number of organizations such as the local food banks.
J&J Services proudly has served the San Joaquin Valley, Sacramento, Galt, Stockton and all surrounding areas of California for over 20 years. J&J Services all your home and or business needs including heating and air conditioning to plumbing and electrical. Every client is treated like family and every home and or business place as if it were their own.
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Join us in the winners circle and call 209-600-7959
And you can schedule on line and or text! www.jjheat.com
For all your COOLING, HEATING, PLUMBING, and ELECTRICAL
All technicians are fully certified and 100% trustworthy!
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CRANBURY, N.J.—David Douglas Brown, New Jersey Hall of Fame Inventor, is expanding to all fifty states. Yellow Pages ONLINE, a marketing company which had its launch in 2017, promotes his new technology. The project began with Brown’s vision for utilizing a new technology called Public Relations Optimization (P.R.O), which assists businesses, locally and nationally, with public relations, advertising and marketing.
The new technology connects key words to specific algorithms in all relevant search engines including Google, Yahoo, Bing, TikTok, etc. This causes the story to be driven to the top of the organic search page promoting the small business. Reporting on this exclusive interview with our www.NJnewjersey.com reporter, Sharri Schneider, David mentions "It’s basically a recipe of data elements streaming into the internet search engines. This creates a huge advertising ‘bump’ for our client. The boosted part is on the social media side in which we work with Facebook and other prominent websites to promote the small business. I’m excited to say we are a proud member of the New Jersey Press Association as well.”
After speaking with prospective business owners, it became evident to Brown that clients really wanted to talk about how their business began, the services offered, and what their plans were for the future. By promoting their stories online, the client has the opportunity to get their branding message out to the public within a very short time. “My dream is to level the playing field between Fortune 500 Companies with large public relation departments and small to medium-sized businesses just by calling our newsroom hotline. This gives the business owner an added advantage without the high cost of a private PR department. In the last six months we have also signed on many SEO/SEM (Search Engine Optimization/Search Engine Marketing) companies as strategic partners who sell technological PR Services as add-ons. Our technology makes the SEO/SEM companies look like the hero within their own customer base,” states Brown.
Research demonstrates that when a business has more content posted on social media, there is greater potential for visibility during keyword searches, causing greater opportunity for a business to become successful.
If you are a small to medium-sized business owner, and are interested in having your story professionally written and distributed as part of an advertising package into the social media world, call 732-646-1305 or 609-619-3416.
After an arranged meeting and interview with the owner, the story is written in AP style, then sent back to the client for feedback to ensure satisfaction before public distribution. We can also include photographs, videos, and/or links at the client’s request.
David Douglass Brown graduated from Stockton University located in Pomona, New Jersey and is currently a volunteer firefighter in South Brunswick, New Jersey.