The Restoration Industry Association’s (RIA) 67^th-annual Leadership Summit and Industry Expo (Myrtle Beach, S.C.) came to a close March 29, capping three days worth of convention workshops, keynote addresses, breakout sessions and, of course, networking.

MYRTLE BEACH - The Restoration Industry Association’s (RIA) 67th-annual Leadership Summit & Industry Expo kicked off today in Myrtle Beach, S.C.

It’s not often that we cross-promote feature stories with our sister publication, ICS Cleaning Specialist, but a piece in the March issue, recapping the annual Disaster Restoration & Remediation Market Study, is too significant for us to not make mention of it on R&R as well.

From the 2012 Xactware User Conference in Salt Lake City.

In the United States, more than $150 billion a year is spent on advertising. The number alone is nothing, but what if $120 billion of that was knowingly wasted?

In my last blog, I introduced a partnership BNP Media forged with BirdDog Jobs, a career center specializing in the skilled trades. Today, we’re pleased to announce another partnership.

For the last two years, more than 13+ million U.S. workers have been unemployed, many for very long stretches.

This week I attended the last National Association Oil Heating Service Managers Show in Hershey, PA. Actually, it’s not the last show for this fine organization, but it will be the last show by that exact name.

The mitigation is done, but our restoration job continues. It is interesting to see this process through, as my dear friend ICS columnist Steve Toburen says, "the customer's eyeglasses.”

This is no major flood or restoration job by any stretch of the imagination but even I was surprised at just how much remediation is involved from the seemingly benign water leak under my kitchen sink.