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Nationwide housing affordability hit a new record high for a second consecutive quarter in the first three months of this year, according to the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Opportunity Index (HOI), released today. Yet tight lending conditions continue to pose a major obstacle to many prospective home buyers. The latest HOI data reveal that 77.5 percent of all new...
New Website Helps Home Owners, Buyers Protect...
Despite the fact that Americans overwhelmingly support homeownership, legislative and regulatory proposals now under...
'Made in America' house in Oregon highlights...
Politicians love to say Americans don't make things anymore. That might be an exaggeration, but one thing's for sure:...
Remodeling Market Index Remains Relatively Flat...
Due to a recently discovered computer coding error, NAHB has revised the RMI going back to 2006. The error had slightly...
Bringing decks up to code adds value
Updating an aging deck can create a totally new feature of a home, but also can lead to the unexpected. Rich Peters of...
101 Housing Markets on Improving List in April
The list of housing markets showing measurable improvement expanded slightly to include 101 metropolitan areas in...

Blog

One of the all-time great success stories is Tom Monaghan, the guy who originally built Domino's Pizza. He was worth 450 million dollars and sold the company for 1billion in 1998. How did he achieve that wealth? His success came from selling service, charging for pizza, but selling service. The key...
Price is Not as Important as you might think
It is not unusual to find salespeople who think price is more important than other factors when a customer makes a...
But We Can Make It Up In Volume
When Businesses get into financial difficulty, it's inevitable because some genius gets the bright idea that one can...
6 Questions To Ask Before Moving To Cloud Computing
The big move now is for small businesses to move more and more of their operations to the cloud – there’s a few...
Questions to Ask Your Pay-Per-Click Management Company
1. What kind of return on investment can I expect with your services? 2. Will you charge me per click, per call, per...
Selling is a full time Job
Like many of you, I have many roles that I must fill. I don't have the luxury of concentrating on just one function....
Quality can be be the wrong stuff.
Many salespeople can't make there prices stick, because they try to sell either too high a quality or too inferior a...
Are you wearing the cheapest shirt you could buy?
There is a flawed logic that people only buy on price. Let's try a simple test, right now are you wearing the cheapest...

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Marketing

  • Make the Internet Work for You
    Make the Internet Work for You Here's a piece of cold, hard reality: It's gotten harder and harder for smaller deck builders to compete against larger operators and their more sophisticated marketing methods. I know. I've been building decks for more…
  • Making Trade Shows Profitable
    Making Trade Shows Profitable Trade shows offer an opportunity to sell your company to hundreds of prospective customers over a few days. While some companies have great success with trade shows, many find that their trade show efforts do…

Sales

  • Determining Your Competitive Advantage - Price
    Determining Your Competitive Advantage - Price You must sell your product or service on the basis of some competitive advantage. That advantage will boil down to one or a combination of five fundamental things: (1) price, (2) quality, (3) service, (4)…
  • Finding Out What Your Customers Want
    Finding Out What Your Customers Want What do your customers want? If you knew the answer to that question, what could you do with that information? Knowing what your customers want will allow you to make some key decisions about your business such as: Giving your customers what…

Technology

  • A Great Alternative to Hiring Attorneys
    A Great Alternative to Hiring Attorneys Legal counsel can be expensive. For many small businesses, the occasional need to draft a legal document or obtain legal advice doesn’t merit full-time legal counsel. With limited funds, many small businesses are turning to…
  • Five Great Apps to Improve Mobile Workers’ Productivity
    Five Great Apps to Improve Mobile Workers’ Productivity For workers who frequently travel, logging expenses can be an administrative nightmare. Keeping up with mileage, saving receipts, and recording it all when you return to the office is far more than many small businesses…
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