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Five Key Spokes of the Business Bike Wheel

Much like a bike wheel depends on its spokes to work effectively, a business depends on its various departments to find success in the market. 




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Custom Home Building: World Class Team

As we begin to see more opportunities for growth, the focus of many businesses is changing. During the recession, businesses survived by being…

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Custom Home Building: Keep Their Dream House From Becoming Your Nightmare

Builders share their strategies for keeping hold of the reins on their custom home projects.

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Custom Home Building Accounting: To Deduct or Capitalize?

A recent Tax Court case highlights steps custom builders can take to get better deductions for some of their indirect costs.

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Weiss Building & Development rebrands to Evolutionary Home Builders

Chicago-based homebuilder Weiss Building & Development is rebranding and changing its name to Evolutionary Home Builders. The company built the…

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Custom Builders on the Move

Three companies discuss the importance of instituting design studios, cultivating relationships, and offering quality work.

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Weathering the extremes with resilient materials

Are severe storms pulling more demand for hardier building materials?

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Mark Richardson: Walking the Client

Successful sales and business people know that if you are ever going to achieve success, you have to control the process. Without control you…

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Closing the sales fulfillment gap: the missing link in Lean

During Operation Desert Storm in the early 90s, France’s decision to not support the U.S. intervention revived an old joke from the World War II era…

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Mark Richardson: What is your end game?

Preparing a path for exiting your business calls for defining what you want your destination to be.

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Good experience, good margin

Remodeling and custom home building are similar in that both are ‘high touch’ relationships. Not to say that production home building is not high…

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