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• The road to work-life balance
  Two remodelers discuss how to get a balance between your work and your life without giving up your business.
• 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.
• 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.
• Managing Customer Expectations
  Do your customers always get what they want? Are they delighted with the finished project? Are they happy to recommend you? If they're not, this is a must read that will help you manage those expectations.
• Brand Pickell
  Orren Pickell is a remodeler. He's a custom builder. He's a businessman. But perhaps most importantly, he's a brand. Talk to high-end homeowners in Illinois, Michigan or southern Wisconsin and they'll know the name Orren Pickell. Whether it's remodeling or custom homes, the name Orren Pickell carries a meaning beyond what most contractors ever achieve.
• Weather Beater
  After putting up with a leaky deck for 10 years, Mick Roberts wanted the problem to end. Permanently. He hired Emerald Contractors, a remodeler in Tarpon Springs, Fla., to do the job.
• You Don't Exist Without 'E'
  Understanding the value of having an online presence.
• How to Sell Generated Leads
  Remodelers need to learn how to generate media-produced leads.
• Trade Secrets
  Team-building activities from Blue Canyon Construction in Washington state; Sage Homebuilders in St. Louis explains co-opetition and Feldco wins the Torch Award for Marketplace Ethics.
• Lead Paint Lowdown
  New lead paint regulations are set to take effect in 2010, and remodelers who work in pre-1978 buildings will face some major changes in the way they remodel some homes and businesses. Professional Remodeler talked to Matt Watkins, an environmental policy analyst with NAHB, about the new rule.

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