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Get Answers to IT Problems and Software Questions at New Builder Tech Forums at IBS

NAHB’s Business Management & IT Committee will present three Builder Technology Forums at the 2005 International Builders’ Show. The forums will provide builders with information about selecting software to help them run their businesses more efficiently.

The forums will be moderated by panels of builders and software vendors who will tell attendees about pitfalls to avoid and the best way to use technology to increase profits. The forums are not sales presentations.

“This is a great opportunity to hear from everyone — people who produce and sell business software and builders who use it — about what works and what doesn’t,” says John Barrows, a custom builder in Wainscott, NY, who helped plan the forums.

The topics of the Builder Technology Forums are:

  • Financial Control (Job Costing & Purchasing) Software
  • Project Management Software
  • Sales Automation Software

For a schedule of Builder Technology Forums at the 2005 International Builders’ Show, visit www.nahb.org/techforum.


NAHB Has More Than 170 Resources to Help You Run Your Business More Profitably

Go to NAHB's Business Management Tools Web pages for instant access to more than 170 timesaving, moneymaking and cost-cutting business resources to help you run your business more profitably. Get guidance on accounting and financial management, business strategy, computers and information technology, customer service, human resources and more. 

Resources are added weekly, so bookmark www.nahb.org/biztools to go directly to these vital business management resources.

Local and state home builders associations can link directly to www.nahb.org/biztools from your Web site and give your members instant access to these resources. It will make your HBA's Web site the place to go for the information and guidance they need to succeed.

Subscribe to NAHB’s Business of Building e/Source

NAHB’s Business of Building e/Source is your monthly electronic guide to the hot issues and emerging trends in home building business management. You’ll find practical advice, tricks of the trade and sound business guidance — all delivered monthly, straight to your desktop, in a quick and easy-to-read format. Business of Building e/Source is available free to NAHB members and their employees. To subscribe, click here on the members only side of www.nahb.org.

The NAHB University of Housing Offers Courses on Business Management

The NAHB University of Housing offers a course on business management designed to help builders improve their business and profitability. For a list of current offerings, click here. Search keywords: “Introduction to Business Management.”

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