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• Homebuilders, It's Time to Turn Your Business Around
  Take a look at how you're managing, and it will help you move your company in the right direction.
• How Custom Builders Can Achieve Balance in an Unbalanced World
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• This List Will Blow Your Mind
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• 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.
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• David Drees Sees Big Payoff for Builders Who Survive
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• When (And How) To Add New Management Specialists Needed When Housing Markets Recover
  It’s time to get ready to grow again by adding managers with skills tailored to the housing market that will emerge with recovery.
• The Case to Accommodate the Latino Market
  Latinos value homeownership, and their population is only going up. Have you positioned your company to use this opportunity?
• 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.
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• 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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