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Stay the course with your marketing plan
Before the end of the year, write a disciplined and actioinable marketing plan for your remodeling firm
Basic Survival Tactics for the Remodeler
Remodeling expenditures are down more than 10 percent, and most remodelers are struggling to maintain sales volumes and margins. Survival has become a major issue for many companies.
Hiring a Business Coach
A business coach can help your remodeling business and personal life run more smoothly.
Budgeting
Remodelers need to think through all changes in overhead and staffing to survive the worst case, it will force you to deal with your fear and your budget.
Closing the books on 2008
Predictions by both the Joint Center for Housing Studies Remodeling Futures Program and NAHB are for another year of decreasing revenue, but national forecasts have little bearing on the course you should map out for your business.
The Beauty of Green Design
All designers and architects know that style and substance are not mutually exclusive, but in the specific realm of green design, the focus for most remodeling firms is on the building science component of green.
2008 Best of the Best Design Awards
In this year's Best of the Best Design Award entries, the majority of projects featured at least some form of green building practices and products.
2008 Best of the Best Design Awards: THE BEST
Professional Remodelers' overall winner of the Best of the Best Design Awards was a Historic Restoration project by Gardner/Fox Associates of Bryn Mawr, Pa.
Platinum Winner: Whole-House Green Remodel
Reuse is one of the most important tenets of green remodeling. With that in mind, this reclaimed barn turned retreat seems the very embodiment of green.