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In This Issue:

Front Page
Green Building Barrels Into the Mainstream Market
NAHB Resources Available After Disasters in West, Midwest
Employees Wanted: NAHB Launches Online Career Center
Reader Survey: Tell Us What's Important to You
Coast to Coast
Real Estate Rates Could Hit 7% by Summer
Politics & Government
NAHB Pushes in Senate for Association Health Plans
NAHB Fights for Property Owners in Flood Insurance Bill
NAHB Members to Carry Concerns to Lawmakers on May 10
Economics & Finance
Housing Production Cools in February
Builder Confidence in Market Inches Down in March
2005 Permits Look Good in Atlanta, Phoenix and Houston
NAFTA Panel Finds No Grounds for Lumber Tariffs
Tips
Builder's Tip: A Jig for Router-Made Moldings
Business Management
Production Builders: NAHB Has a Web Resource Page for You
Marketing Automation — Selling More Without Spending More
50Plus Housing
Baby Boomers Ready to Rejuvenate 50+ Housing Market
Learn How to Market and Sell to the 50+ Home Buyer
Multifamily
Attend Upcoming Multifamily Conference in Scottsdale, Ariz.
Remodelers
Directories Provide Remodeler Listings for Consumers
Design
Enter the Best in American Living Awards Competition
Education
Designations Should Be the 'Norm' for Our Industry
Education Calendar
Green Building
Twelve NAHB Green Building Award Winners Announced
Environment
Roadside Ditch Regulation Sparks Builder Lawsuit
Katrina Recovery
Large Numbers in Gulf Coast Not Paying Mortgages
Codes and Standards
Builders Invited to Accessibility Workshops
Deadline Nears for Code Change Proposals
Workforce housing
Development in Irvine a Neighborhood With ‘HEART’
Labor
Florida Job Corps Students Earning College Credit
Building Products
Insulation Protects Unvented Attics From Hurricane Rains
Builder's Engineer
This Column Is in the Toilet
TV
NAHB-Produced Programs on HGTV & DIY This Week
Endowment
KB Home Spreads TLC Throughout San Antonio
Endowment to Fund ‘State of the Nation’s Housing’ Report
Association News
NAHB Spring Board Meeting May 9-13
Florida Middle Schoolers Building Homes of Their Own
Spokesperson Training Still Available for 2006 Spring Board
Associate Member BUILD-PAC Drive Launched
GM $500 Exclusive Offer for NAHB Members
Calendar of Events
NAHB Career Center

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Marketing Automation — Selling More Without Spending More

Production Builders: NAHB Has a Web Resource Page for You

NAHB has new business managment resources for production builders who build more than 25 homes a year. The resources can be found on the NAHB Web site at www.nahb.org/pb.

Production builders who build more than 25 homes a year now have an NAHB Web page for NAHB Business Management Resources — www.nahb.org/pb.

The page contains nearly 150 resources, and new resources are being added regularly. This resource is for NAHB members only.

Resources include specific strategies to increase margins, tools to measure your home building company’s progress, resources for hiring and retention and ideas to improve your business processes

Among the recently added members-only resources are:

New resources — including: how to sell more homes with the construction-perm (CP) product; how to make more money by controlling the mortgage finance process; building efficiencies through better technology; reducing financing costs; and maintaining business control with a mortgage joint venture — will be added later this year.

These resources are being added through the support of American Home Bank, which is working with NAHB’s Single Family Production Builders Committee to sponsor some of the Web section’s content.

More Ideas Wanted

Production builders who build more than 25 homes a year are invited to provide ideas for new business management tools that they would like to see added to the production builder resource page.

E-mail Natalie Holmes at NAHB, or call her at 800-368-5242 x8461 with ideas.



NAHB Technology Solutions Directory Now Online

NAHB’s Technology Solutions Directory — an easy-to-use directory that enables builders, remodelers, contractors and other industry professionals to find information on software and IT solutions and services for their businesses — is now online. The directory is sponsored by the Business Management & Information Technology Committee

Software and technology solutions providers interested in being listed can sign up for:

  • Enhanced Listing — Listing includes company name, URL, e-mail address, mailing address, phone number, company/product description, company logo. Click here for more information.
     
  • Standard Listing — Listing includes company name and phone number. Click here for more information.


For more information, e-mail Wil Heslop at NAHB.

The Technology Solutions Directory is solely for educational and informational purposes.  Nothing in the directory should be construed as policy, an endorsement, warranty or guaranty by the National Association of Home Builders of the listed software, IT service or the software/IT vendor.  The National Association of Home Builders expressly disclaims any responsibility for any damages arising from the use, application or reliance on any information contained in this directory.



NAHB Has More Than 250 Resources to Help You Run Your Business More Profitably

Go to NAHB's Business Management Tools Web pages (available to NAHB members only) for instant access to more than 250 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 association's Web site the place to go for the information and guidance that members need to succeed.

 


 

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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, visit www.nahb.org/BoB on the Members Only side of the NAHB Web site.

 


 

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