Top September Stories: Sales tips, world roofing championship and NRCA Spanish membership website

By Evelyn Witterholt. 

Here’s what has been trending on the MetalCoffeeShop™ (MCS) newsroom this past month. 

With the Spanish-speaking roofing community growing daily, more associations are offering resources to this valuable sector of the industry. One of our most-read articles from last month was a press release highlighting the National Roofing Contractors Association’s (NRCA) Spanish membership site. This new site offers business knowledge and benefits to Spanish-speaking roofing business owners and workers, including videos, PDFs and training resources! 

One of our most popular articles from last month was a piece by our writer, Emma Peterson, about the upcoming World Championship of Young Roofers! This event is put on by the International Federation of Roofing Professionals (IFD) and will be held in Austria from November 13-15, 2024. The championship will showcase the roofing skills from participants around the world under the age of 28. And for the first time, there will be a team of young roofers from the United States. The Coffee Shops will be covering this event live from Austria so stay tuned for more! 

Our most-read article in September was a piece by Centerpoint Connect about helpful sales tips. The roofing software company offers valuable advice about how to sell more by creating quality bids with added value. They also discuss how to incorporate year-round selling tactics that go beyond the initial project bid. 

Read the top 5 articles: 

5 - The hidden dangers snowstorms pose to your roof 

4 - Announcing Brennan Exteriors LLC as the 2024 winner of the Most Impressive Snow Guard System Project award 

3 - NRCA launches Spanish membership site 

2 - The Olympics may be over, but there’s still a USA team to support on the global stage! 

1 - Beyond the bottom line