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• A Community goes solar
  Gayler Construction of Danville, Calif. had heard about programs where homeowners had banded together to negotiate reduced prices from solar providers and thought that would be a good fit for their local community.
• Remodelers use networking to boost visibility
  Life is about relationships. Business works best when life is going well and vice versa. It is next to impossible to live without having relationships with other people, and it's even harder to be in the remodeling business without relationships.
• Growing your remodeling business in the current economy
  Understanding the decision-making criteria for target clients today is the first step in strategically mapping how to sustain and even grow your remodeling business in the current economy.
• How fit is your remodeling business?
  There's an excellent business book on the shelves right now that I'd recommend to any remodeling business owner. “How Fit Is Your Business? A Complete Checkup and Prescription for Better Business Health,” by Mark Richardson.
• Recycling and reusing material
  How a remodeler can save money, help the environment and become green-friendly? Reduce, recycle and reuse.
• Remodeler builds business with podcasts
  Home improvement radio shows are an effective way for remodelers to market to new customers; using your Web site to partner with a TV station; offering "green" workshops
• Bringing Your Business Plan to Life
  The steps for creating and implementing a business plan for your remodeling company
• This List Will Blow Your Mind
  Change. There’s a whole generation of remodelers (and doctors and lawyers ... and, yes, editors too) who fight it at every turn. I’m going to share something with you that has helped me adjust my thinking over many years of rapid change in the journalism profession.
• Trade Secrets
  Trade secrets from the remodeling industry
• Creating a Work-Life Balance
  Trying to find a balance between your remodeling work and your real life can be a challenge.
• 3 Strategies for Positioning Your Remodeling Firm
  Professional Remodeler Columnist Doug Dwyer gives insight to three strategic areas of focus that create value for your customers. And remodelers know that satisfied customers often lead to their next job. These are the strategies.
• Constructive Communication
  To achieve excellence within our remodeling companies' cultures, leaders must work hard at keeping healthy relationships. Our communication skills must be a strength, not a weakness.
• Choose Profit Over Volume
  Next year looks like it could be one of the most difficult the remodeling industry has endured in more than a quarter of a century. Nearly everyone we've talked to — even the company owners who are not struggling to reach their 2008 volume goal — have confirmed that converting leads to sales has becoming exceedingly difficult, and it's eating away at profit margin.
• Trade Secrets
  Information for building a better remodeling Web site with SEO; marketing with financing; and going green by reducing, reusing and recycling.
• Why SWOT is Important for Your Business
  Giving everyone who works in and with your remodeling business a clear sense of what the enterprise is about is one of the over-arching purposes of preparing a business plan. That is why the business' vision, mission and core values are so important. With this foundation in place it is easier to look forward, trying to see what the future holds for the company.

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