An opportunity for builders to finish a job and help the industry. Helping customer make sense of window and door options. The right floor plan for a solar home may be one you already build.
Business Tip:
Standard Practice from landscaper Terry Reece: Giving boulders a slight basin to sit in and reinforcing them with compacted soil helps on steep slopes which naturally want to erode.
Dodge Ram Chassis Cab
Reece Landscaping 828-884-3437
Good customer service is more important than every these days. Here are some suggestions to create a Customer for Life.
- Be proactive with communication.
- Assign a point person to be responsible for maintaining and improving the relationship between builder and client.
- Provide performance criteria by creating a document outline expectations.
- Provide construction details to trades contractors.
- Guarantee your work.
- Be respectful and courteous at all times.
Customer for Life
Segment 1:
In the News:
- NAHB President believes housing stimulus law will entice first-time homebuyers.
- Builders who can’t weather the downturn forced to walk away, creating an opportunity for other builders to finish the job and restore the image of the home building industry.
- Two dozen states taking action to stop the theft of copper.
- Habitat for Humanity has built more homes than any other builder in New Orleans in the past two years.
- New building codes for Florida require all homes to be built to withstand 120 mile per hour winds.
Resources:
First-time Homebuyer Tax Credit
New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity
Florida Building Codes
Builder Hurricane Information
Segment 2:
It’s All About Building Products: a dolly, a fan, a phone charger and much more in one piece of equipment; plus cutting through the confusion about windows and doors, so customers get their best option for their homes and their budgets.
Resources:
Pella Windows & Doors
Editor’s Choice:
Stanley Fubar 3 Wrecking Bar
Kichler Landscaping Lighting
Found at IBS: Hunter Sherpa Cart Fan (available Fall 2008)
Hunter Jetstream Garage Fan
Product of the Day Sweepstakes
Segment 3:
The Best Practices for doing business better: how water flows and how that affects construction.
Resources:
BP Understanding Drainage Planes (need URL)
http://www.buildiq.com/
Segment 4:
The first state to make an alternative energy building requirement. Plus a floor plan in a home is important, see what works best when building solar.
Resources:
Hawaii Governor Linda Lingle
Solar Decathlon
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