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Book Offers 9 Strategies for Re-Energizing Your Workforce Nine leadership strategies to beat fear, stress, the recession blues, and to boost morale and employee engagement

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Is Your Remodeling Firm Prepared for Disaster? What if your business and its records were literally wiped out tomorrow? How would you pick up the pieces? Whom would you turn to? We've scoured resources to get you prepared in case disaster strikes.

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Industry News

• NAHB Book Offers Success Strategies for Remodelers
  Remodelers just starting up a business and those who want to streamline their companies to be more profitable and efficient now have a new resource to tap. BuilderBooks, the publishing arm for the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) has released The Paper Trail: Systems and Forms for a Well-Run Remodeling Company, Second Edition. Find out how you can get a copy.
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• Home Buyers Desire Energy Efficiency— But Only At Right Price
• Lender Pilots Low-Cost Green Home Equity Loan

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