Qualified Remodeler blog posts by industry insiders offering their insights and opinions on the remodeling industry.
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Work Spaces of QR: Graphics Cube Land
By April Van Etten - Friday May 17, 2013
Welcome to my day-time home. It's a bit gray, but luckily my kids’ happy faces and lovely fluorescent light fixtures brighten the space. The bottom of the picture shows what my ideal office would look like. Hey, we can dream, right? There are five things I need in order to function. My computer–you don’t want me illustrating the magazine myself. As my husband tells my kids, “Mommy is...
Rich Harshaw is the founder and CEO of Monopolize Your Marketplace, a marketing training and fulfillment services company that specializes in the home improvement and remodeling industries. Rich’s company has worked with hundreds of remodelers to make their marketing dollars work better by increasing advertising ROI, improving website conversion, implementing pre-positioning, improving home show performance, and more. To learn more, please visit www.MYMonline.com/remodeler
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Your Most Important Number, Part II
By Rich Harshaw - Monday May 6, 2013
Last Week: Finding your ‘Most Important Number’ This Week: How to get the marketing budget to make it happen, and how to spend the budget Last blog posting I challenged you to set a goal using my “Most Important Number” method. In a nutshell, your Most Important Number is the number of sales per month you need to get in your bread & butter product category that would...
Andrea Girolamo, Editor of ForResidentialPros.com website, posts her opinions and viewpoints.
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Throw a Month-long Party for National Remodeling Month
By Kacey Larsen - Friday May 3, 2013
This is my first time celebrating National Remodeling Month (you’ll have to imagine me blowing a noise maker). And while I wish I have a really insightful answer to the question of how to celebrate, I’m instead going to defer to the industry associations, who have thrown many more National Remodeling Month parties than I have. The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) and National...
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KBIS and IBS to Join Forces in 2014
By Janice Costa - Tuesday January 22, 2013
It's been a tough few years, and everyone from kitchen dealers and designers to manufacturers have been feeling the pinch. So, is it any wonder that trade show attendance has struggled along with the rest of us these past few years? When budgets are tight, there's a tendency to look at other, more affordable options -- online networking instead of live events, webinars instead of live...
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RD+B Profitable Design/Build
- Monday January 21, 2013
• May 22, 2013 - Mahwah, NJ • Oct 23, 2013 - Chicago Full-day conference for architects and builders who design and build custom homes, and for related professionals in the high-end housing market COST: Complimentary as a guest of our sponsors REGISTRATION COMING SOON! To be notified when registration is available, please include your name, company, address, phone and email address in...
