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Conference to Focus on Using Industry Performance Standards to Improve Business

The upcoming Benchmark 2004 conference will include sessions hosted by the NAHB Research Center on how company culture and customer relationships based on a formal quality assurance system can help set residential construction companies apart from their competitors.

Targeted to housing industry members who want to create better performing, sustainable businesses that deliver high margins and satisfied customers, Benchmark 2004 will focus on the many ways in which high-performing home builders, professional remodelers, suppliers and manufacturers can differentiate their businesses.

The conference will provide opportunities for networking and creating professional relationships based on camaraderie, advice and shared goals. Discussions will focus on industry performance standards that enable individual companies to share, learn and develop their own roadmap for achieving these standards.

Learn how Countrywide®'s National Builder Division works locally to speed up the closing process.
Discover how Countrywide can qualify almost any homebuyer with its wide selection of ARMs.

Seth Godin, Business Week magazine’s “ultimate entrepreneur for the Information Age” and the best-selling author of “The Purple Cow,” will give a keynote address on the benefit of using creative thinking to transform business ideas and strategies.

Benchmark 2004 will be held Sept. 12-14 at the Hilton Hotel Riverside in New Orleans.

For more information from the NAHB Research Center on the conference and how to register, click here.

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