In this episode of Ask Annissa, Annissa Coy offers two practical ideas to a restoration business owner struggling to bring money in the door one year after opening. In his heartfelt plea for advice on quickly finding jobs, he asks, “If you were in my shoes, what would you do?”

Have you surrounded yourself with the best competitors in your industry? Not the people outside of the business you work in, but your teammates and coworkers? If you answered yes, the company you work for has achieved a great amount. Most operations are not as fortunate.

How many of you get the print issue of R&R every month and that’s the extent of your involvement with the publication? Do you turn the local news on in the morning, but don’t have the station’s news app downloaded for breaking news or weather notifications?