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The remodel of this small apartment achieves the client's big spatial aspirations.
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This remodel created an open plan and added richness to the design by making a feature...
A drab split-level home is transformed into a modern showpiece with the addition of a...
A charming Victorian home gets a revamp and improved connection to the garden.
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Kyle Hunt
Kyle Hunt is the owner of Remodel Your Marketing and creator of The Excellence Club. After years of experience in the remodeling industry, Kyle now installs his proven and practical Marketing System for remodelers throughout the United States. Kyle resides in Michigan with his wife, Sarah, and their three children, Thomas, Piper, and Calvin. Contact Hunt at 517-548-7140 or email him at kyle@remodelyourmarketing.com. Follow Kyle on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/KyleHunt
Had a nice conversation on my LinkedIn Group page the other day. James was wondering, "Where is the best place to start with your marketing when your sales staff and construction crew are one-and-the-same?" Here's what I advised him (and now you!) to do. This is helpful even if your sales and construction crew aren't one and the same.
Paul Winans
Paul Winans' career runs parallel to the changes in the remodeling industry over the last 40 years. From beginnings as a carpenter who didn't want to run a business, Paul teamed with his wife, Nina, to build a highly successful remodeling company. After almost three decades, Paul and Nina sold the business to someone outside the company, a rare event in the industry.
The changes we see them make as the get older, even in the short time we have lived with them, are remarkable.
Ed Voytovich
Ed Voytovich, a 40-year remodeling veteran, is BPI-certified, a HERS Rater, a licensed home inspector in N.Y. state, and has a Ph.D. in English literature. Most recently he has served as the executive director of the Building Performance Contractors Association of NYS and as a consulting adviser to Building Efficiency Resources. He now works with Home Energy Performance by Halco, in central New York. Reach him at ed@TheBER.com.
No one can doubt that cheap sells; all we need to do is to walk into a Big Box retailer, the destination of choice for screw-it-up-yourselfers and low-bid contractors. "Cheap" corrodes the system, puts the providers of good products and technology at a disadvantage, and often drives them out of business.
Kathy Shertzer
Kathy Shertzer has been the officer manager/gatekeeper for eight years for DuKate Fine Remodeling, a design/build firm in Franklin, Ind.
It is kind of like the old joke about "men" – (sorry guys – I didn’t write the joke!) – you can’t live with them, you can’t kill them. That’s how I feel about some clients. Don’t get me wrong, we have some of the nicest clients imaginable. Some are real gems. I’m serious; I wouldn’t trade them for the world. Then there are others who are also nice people, but I would prefer they take an extended vacation to somewhere like Bora Bora. Boy they sure are a handful.
Bruce Case
Bruce Case started his career with Case in 1996, and is a second-generation member of the Case family to serve on the senior management team. Bruce is President of Case Design/Remodeling, Inc., a leading full-service home improvement organization that includes CaseInstituteofRemodeling.com, an online knowledge database.
Uncertainty runs deep. With our country, our political system, our economy, our businesses, and our future. Add to that the typical winter challenges (personal stress, client stress, backlogs tightening, etc.). I don't know about you, but often my first reaction in the face of all this is to scramble. What should we be doing that we aren't? What new things should we try? Should we jump into a new business entirely?
Shawn McCadden
Shawn McCadden founded, operated, and sold a successful design/build company. A co-founder of the Residential Design/Build Institute and former director of education for a national K&B remodeling franchise, Shawn speaks at industry events and consults with remodeling companies.
At a RRP workshop I attended last week, sponsored by the Lead and Environmental Hazards Association (LEHA), several renovators complained to Mike Wilson of EPA about EPA's handling of the RRP rule. Renovators complying with the RRP rule have been asking for two specific actions from EPA to help level the playing field: consumer awareness and adequate enforcement.
View the annual report on the relationship between remodeling costs and resale value.
[January] [2012]
This issue: Top 100 Markets — Our second annual forecast of the 100 U.S. markets that will be most active in 2012 is based, as was the inaugural list, on the Residential Remodeling Index, or RRI. The good news: more than three-quarters of the cities on the list are over 80% of the way back to their 2007 levels of remodeling activity.
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A marketing strategy is vital to the small remodeling company. In this segment, Victoria Downing offers tips to help build a marketing strategy and create brand awareness. Also in this segment, Shawn McCadden provides advice for growing companies about how to manage their finances and understand cash flow.
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