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Boost Your Business With Free Biztools Business Guides
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These Biztools business guides are available free to NAHB members. |
 Three new builder business guides — created to help NAHB members manage their businesses more effectively and increase their profits — are available free from NAHB.
Available to members only and downloadable from the NAHB Web site, www.nahb.org, the guides offer members tips on technology, business planning, ensuring the financial health of their businesses and more.
Produced by NAHB’s Business Management and Information Technology Committee and found in the NAHB Business Management Resources section of the Web site, the 2007 Biztools builder business guides include:
All three concise guides — which include lists of other valuable NAHB Biztools resources — can be downloaded free by clicking here, or by clicking the individual titles above.
The guides are downloadable in a PDF format only.
Free 2006 Builder Business Guides Also Available
The 2006 Biztools builder business guides are also available free to NAHB members and can be downloaded from the NAHB Web site.
The three 2006 guides provide business tips on technology, human resources and measuring profits.
To view or download the 2006 guides, click here.
NAHB Has More Than 300 Resources to Help You Run Your Business More Profitably
Go to NAHB's Business Management Tools Web pages (available to members only) for instant access to more than 300 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 their Web site and give their members instant access to these resources. It will make your HBA's Web site the place to go for the information and guidance that members need to succeed.
 Implement Procedures and Standards to Increase Quality
Standardize each step of the construction process by implementing the tools and procedures in “The Scopes of Work Program: Procedures and Standards to Increase Quality,” available through BuilderBooks.com.
Field tested by builders concerned with quality issues, this program has proven to significantly reduce warranty work. "The Scopes of Work Program" will help you:
- Standardize your business
- Gain accountability from field personnel and trade contractors
- Ensure 100% completion by each trade
- Reduce wasted material
- Control your construction costs
- Reduce warranty work
- Increase your bottom line
You can adapt the scopes to meet the demands of your business or codes for your state or county.
To view or purchase this publication online, click here, or call 800- 223-2665 to order.
 NAHB Kit Gives Builders Back-to-Basics Tips in Cooling Market
With the current cooling of the nation’s housing market expected to persist into the middle of the year, NAHB has developed a comprehensive online toolkit geared to providing association members with information that will help them prosper in today’s changing business environment.
With the current cooling of the nation’s housing market expected to persist into the middle of next year, NAHB has developed a comprehensive geared to providing association members with information that will help them prosper in today’s changing business environment.
To access the “Back to Basics” toolkit, you must be an NAHB member and have a login to www.nahb.org. To create a login, go to www.nahb.org/login or click on the log-in button on the main menu bar.
For assistance, call the NAHB Member Service Center at 800-368-5242.
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