Shinn Group's 2024 Achievement Awards Winners
The awards recognize home builders for their excellence, discipline, and continuous improvement
7 Sales and Marketing Trends to Watch (and Learn From)
These award-winning campaigns from NAHB's 2024 National Sales and Marketing Awards showcase next-level strategies and stellar results
Proven Ways to Improve Jobsite Productivity
Consider these solutions for reducing cycle time, hard costs, dry runs, rework, miscommunication, and overall inefficiencies on the jobsite
Sales and Texting? Know the Rules
Texting your sales prospects en masse can be an efficient way to get your message through if you follow these best practices
How to Create a More Inclusive Workplace for Women in Construction
Consider these tips and techniques to attract and retain more women in your home building company and reap the benefits of a more diverse workforce
Ways Women Are Overcoming Hurdles and Making Gains in Construction Careers
Actionable advice for women construction workers who encounter bias on the job
Use workplace conversation - not personal conversation - to build rapport with your employees
Author Bruce Tulgan describes why it’s better to use business conversations to build rapport with employees rather than rely on personal details.
How homebuilders can close every customer
Closing a new-home sale takes more than presentation skills. Our new home sales expert offers advice on closing the deal.
Confidence is a Must to Attract and Sell to Homebuyers
Homebuyers won’t bite if they aren’t certain. Professional Builder columnist John Rymer explains how homeubilders have to build their sales team’s confidence if they want homes to sell homes.
Construction Quality
10 Building Obstacles to Finished Basements and How to Avoid Them
Lower-level living is a lifestyle home builders are charged with creating. But what happens when that lower level throws obstacles your way? Here are 10 pitfalls to basement construction with corresponding best practices to ease the building process
Home Builder Customer Loyalty Begins With Trust
Customer trust builds loyalty, which is essential for your business for a host of reasons
Unemployed Homebuilders Should Consider Their Options
Professional Builder columnist Rodney Hall has a list of suggestions for recently unemployed homebuilder employees – and it doesn’t include taking some time off.
Is Your Home Building Management Team Working at Its Best?
Get your management team fully engaged and arm them with a consistent level of knowledge and skills to sell, build, and deliver higher-quality homes
FPSFs Can Become a Homebuilder's Best Friend
A good foundation system is integral to a comfortable end product, and frost-protected shallow foundations can get you there. When the slab is insulated from the outside, FPSFs make a home warmer in winter and cooler in summer.
Five Tips to Reduce Homebuyer Cancellations
Don't let the market get in the way of a new-home sale. AVID Ratings' Paul Cardis explains how you can reduce your cancellations and make a profit.
Homebuilder HR Risks to Avoid
Home building industry experts offer a look at some of the road hazards on the HR expressway and ideas on how to maneuver them.
