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PRESS RELEASE: Tank Spotter Revolutionizes Propane Industry with Innovative Propane Dispenser Training Feature

Tank Spotter, winner of Best Propane app in America and Best in World has unveiled a first ever Dispenser training and management app to significantly reduce liabilities, streamline safety protocols, and elevate overall service quality...

CANADIAN PROPANE'S BEST-KEPT SECRET

Canadian propane companies must manage more challenges than most others in the world while still turning a profit. From grizzly bears to frozen tundra​, greater distances per customer to longer nights and colder days..

LOVE YOUR PROPANE COMPANY PAPERWORK?

Most of us in the propane industry hate paperwork. Ask any service tech, delivery driver, safety rep, sales rep, manager or office staff if their fondest dream is to have a stack of paperwork waiting..

DON'T LOSE YOUR COMPANY NAME

Remember when you started your company website?  The first thing you had to do was get a “domain name.”  You probably tried to get “YourCompanyName.com” ”, and it was a real bummer if you could not do that...

CAN YOU REDUCE PROPANE CONTAINER REPLACEMENT LIABILITY VIA A SMARTPHONE?

Propane Canada October 2022

Recently while speaking with Eric Leskinen of PropaneSafetyPro.com it became clear that managing properly the Propane Container Placement and Documentation...

HOW TO GET HIGHLY EFFECTIVE FREE ADVERTISING FROM GOOGLE

Propane Canada April 2022

There are many tips and tricks for getting totally free advertising for your propane company from Google. However, advertising    for new customers might    but not be the number one priority for...​

THE BENEFITS OF A COMPREHENSIVE TECHNOLOGY SOLUTION FOR MANAGING A PROPANE BUSINESS

BPN Propane  Article

​Most of us in the propane industry hate paperwork. Ask any service tech, delivery driver, safety rep, sales rep, manager or office staff if their fondest dream is to have a stack of paperwork waiting...

IS BITCOIN FOR PROPANE?

Propane Canada Magazine

​It seems there is more and more news on Bitcoin these days. So what is it and can we in the propane industry use it to our benefit?...

​LOWER COST, MORE EFFECTIVE TRAINING IN 2022

Propane Canada Magazine Feb 2022

​Many people in the Propane Industry debate the cost of training. On one hand training is an expense as it brings in zero revenue. On the other hand it can be argued that it saves a company money...

TRADE SHOWS CHANGE AS TIMES CHANGE

Propane Canada Magazine

​The Events and Trade Show industry is in shambles and the biggest trade show of the year just declared they are cancelling their event for this year. The national restaurant show is cancelled due to the “pandemic” and if you look at what is going on across our propane industry ...

IS YOUR WORKFORCE MOBILIZED?

Propane Canada Magazine

​The propane delivery industry has many assets, from the integrity of family-run firms with rich traditions and loyal consumers to lucrative regional and master limited partnerships. But this industry, with its many technological innovations regarding...

QUICK PROPANE APP GUIDE

Propane Canada Magazine

THERE ARE ALMOST 4.5 MILLION APPS on the Google and Apple app stores combined, not counting game apps. Over 6,000 apps are added per day to these stores. Hundreds of millions of Americans and Canadians are using these apps every day to help in their personal and business lives. Now with that many users and apps...

FIVE ADVANTAGES OF NEW VIRTUAL PROPANE EXPO

Propane Canada Magazine

A virtual trade show (aka virtual expo) is a cross between an online webcast meeting and Amazon’s
​marketplace. It’s the next big trend in trade shows. With the coronavirus, it has just received a big shot
in the arm. Prior to 2020, a mere 20 per-cent of all trade shows were online. Due to the recent pandemic
​ALL trade shows had a choice to close or go to a virtual platform...

WHAT PROPANE COMPANIES MUST KNOW ABOUT 5G

Propane Canada Magazine

THE PROMISE of 5G is that it will finally usher in the era of gigabit speeds for everyone. While most of the consumer market thinks about being able to download games and movies in seconds, there are some big implications for small business as well.​   ​We’re still at the very beginning of the 5G era, with each...

PROPANE'S ELECTRIFICATION PATH FOR SUCCESS

Propane Canada Magazine

There is a Tsunami brewing in the form of the “electrify everything” movement. This movement in combination with the “decarbonization” movement creates a growing challenge to our industry.   Who hasn’t heard of the..

TRAINING AND TECHNOLOGY

Propane Canada Magazine

How can Technology help us get more people trained faster, cheaper and work around the crazy busy schedules of a customer-oriented propane business?   If technology helped us get people to the moon decades ago, create self-driving cars, and empower companies like Amazon, Apple, Uber, Facebook and Airbnb to become bi...

WORLD PROPANE CONTEST FOR BEST NEW SAFETY TECHNOLOGY

BPN Magazine

Propane is an amazingly versatile fuel, but as a combustible fuel, it requires strict safety requirements. Unfortunately, a simple Google search will reveal many very recent incidents where the unsafe use of propane has taken lives and decimated houses, businesses, families and   ​dreams..

WORLD PROPANE SHOW UNVEILS THREE BEST SAFETY TECHNOLOGIES

Propane Canada Magazine

WHAT WERE THE THREE BEST propane safety technologies in the propane industry globally? This year the World LPG Association (WLPGA) set out to discover the answer to that question and, at the September World Propane Trade Show, the winners would..

COMPANY APP TO GROW YOUR BUSINESS

Propane Canada Magazine

One of the most important things that you have to consider is staying ahead of your rivals in the industry. Starting a business is easy, but generating revenue from it and maintaining positive cash flow is the toughest job. This is the reason most business owners fail.  Chances are that your competitor...

DOMINO'S EASILY COPIED SECRET FOR PROPANE COMPANIES

BPN Magazine

When you think about propane delivery and great customer experience, you probably don’t think about pizza delivery companies first. Over the past six years, Domino’s Pizza has built an impressive and immersive digital experience that rivals many traditional e-commerce brands...

UP-AND-COMING APPS

PMAA Journal​

Up-and-Coming Apps By Kenneth Robeson More petroleum marketers and c-store operators are benefitting from cutting-edge technology in the form of innovative apps that handle everything from geo-location, on-site promotions, safety inspections, Sales improvements,..

IT'S TIME YOU GOT A CUSTOM PROPANE APP FOR YOUR BUSINESS

Propane Canada Magazine

The propane business is not what it used to be. You can no longer place an ad in the local directories, sit back, and wait for customers to call you up for a new tank of propane. Gone are the days when customers had a choice of a few companies to fulfill their energy needs. Today, there are thousands of...

NEW PROPANE GAUGE EVOLUTION & INNOVATION

Propane Canada Magazine

Recently, at the World Propane Convention held in Houston, Texas, many new innovative solutions for the propane industry were unveiled. As our industry has been around for many decades, it is always exciting to see how we are finding ways to simplify and streamline.

SPOTTING POTENTIAL CHALLENGES AND TRAVERSING POSSIBLE PROBLEMS WITH THE POWER OF A NEW TECHNOLOGY

Propane Canada Magazine

The propane and heating oil industry depends on many things, chief among them safety. That includes regulatory compliance involving gas and leak checks, legal documentation of the same, maintenance of the tanks themselves, and intelligence about the location, size and...

LEVERAGE THE 34 FLAVORS OF FUEL DELIVERY TECHNOLOGY

The Oil Can

Bill Stomp | Tankspotter.com Most fuel delivery companies want to improve profits. But most of us had no idea that new technology could make such a dramatic difference Take fuel delivery optimization, for example (aka, in- vehicle computers or point-of-sale systems)....

OPTIMIZE PROPANE OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY FOR IMPROVED PROFITS

Propane Canada Magazine

Many of us in the industry, annually look for new ways to improve profits.  Often, we look at our operations to see where we can squeeze out some additional savings.  Fortunately, it seems that many new technology tools have come out to help us “get there”. If you’ve...​

LATEST FUEL INDUSTRY APPS

Propane Canada Magazine

More propane and petroleum marketers are benefitting from cutting-edge technology in the form of innovative apps that handle everything from geo-location, on-site invoicing, safety inspections, Sales improvements, marketing automation and digital replacement of paper...​

NEWEST GOOGLE CHANGES… A DOUBLE EDGED SWORD FOR PROPANE MARKETERS

Propane Canada Magazine

Traditional advertising might be dead. Marketers have been debating how dead it really is since the late 1990’s when they realized the internet and the digital revolution were not a fad. Over the last 7 years it has become obvious, too, that the mobile era of...

NEW TECHNOLOGY FOR A NEW YEAR

Propane Canada Magazine

We love technology that helps improve the bottom line, save time, reduce safety incidents, increase sales, and bring tangible benefits to the propane industry. As such, it is always interesting to see the newest and latest products that have a track record for greatly helping companies. ​ With that in mind, consider… 

LOW TECH PROFIT BOOSTER

Propane Canada Magazine

What would you do with a mailing list of all propane users in your marketplace including their tank size and present fuel provider? Have you ever wondered what you would do if you had that list?  Wouldn’t a list like that be helpful in growing your business? Afterall,...

OPTIMIZE PROPANE OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY FOR IMPROVED PROFITS

Propane Canada Magazine

Many of us in the industry, annually look for new ways to improve profits.  Often, we look at our operations to see where we can squeeze out some additional savings.  Fortunately, it seems that many new technology tools have come out to help us “get there”. If you’ve...​

ULTIMATE PROPANE MARKETING GUIDE

Propane Canada Magazine

What would you do with a mailing list of all propane users in your marketplace including their tank size and present fuel provider? Have you ever wondered what you would do if you had that list?  Wouldn’t a list like that be helpful in growing your business? Afterall,...

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