Innovations & Solutions

Value-Added Furniture Templates for Your Customers

Value-Added Furniture Templates for Your Customers

I am always interested in finding inexpensive and simple ways to improve the customer experience. I noticed Builders and Remodelers often give...

Scheduling with MS Excel

Scheduling with MS Excel

For years I worked with some sort of paper construction/production schedule. Most of them, were not all that sophisticated. The rub with this...

Winning Team or Just a Group of Employees?

Winning Team or Just a Group of Employees?

Sure, we all say we are part of the [state your company name] team. But are we really part of a team, or are we just a group of employees who...

Maintenance Videos — DIY for New Homes

Maintenance Videos — DIY for New Homes

Like a broken record, you’ve told customers many routine maintenances are a homeowner’s responsibility. Where does that get you?...

Selection Sheets — Make Them Interactive!

Selection Sheets — Make Them Interactive!

One of your customers just made one simple change… How much time is spent: Processing and track the change order? Updating the office...

Forms — Make Them Digital

Forms — Make Them Digital

Click to enlarge form Converting traditional paper forms to digital forms is easy, saves time and provides increased functionality. I’ve created digital...

Selection Center — First Impressions

Selection Center — First Impressions

Perception is reality. If it looks good, it is good. These statements are false, of course. But when it comes to showing what we’ve got...

Maintenance for New Homeowners — Email Monthly Tips

Maintenance for New Homeowners — Email Monthly Tips

Emailing monthly maintenance tips is a value-added service that is easily provided and well received. Most of the information for each issue...

Detailing in 3-D

Detailing in 3-D

If a picture is worth 1000 words, how much is a 3-D drawing worth? A three dimensional (3-D) drawing is almost always easier to understand than...

Scheduling with MS Project

Scheduling with MS Project

For years I worked with some sort of paper construction/production schedule. Most of them, were not all that sophisticated. The rub with this...

Maintenance Kit

Maintenance Kit

This kit was designed to help homeowners perform routine maintenance on different types of cracks and separations. Specifically; concrete...

Visualizing the Kitchen

Visualizing the Kitchen

The kitchen area in your high end model/spec looks empty and uninviting. It’s a huge part of  a brand new floor plan you are introducing. You...

Website  — WikiHomebuilding.com for Collaboration

Website — WikiHomebuilding.com for Collaboration

WikiHomebuilding.com started with this question;  “Is there way to bring  professionals in the homebuilding industry together to...

Flipbooks — An Inexpensive Presentation

Flipbooks — An Inexpensive Presentation

I like flipbooks. I like the way the page curls when you move the curser near the corner. I like the way the pages roll when turned. (The quality...

Website — Can You Manage It?

Website — Can You Manage It?

 Do Not Fear Your Website – You Can Manage It Yourself… I have modified a few PHP files, played around a little with CSS, and...

Maintenance Checklist

Maintenance Checklist

Here's another easy one. Provide a monthly maintenance chart. Iclude as many routine owner maintenance items as possible....

Warranty – Can Tracking be Fun?

Warranty – Can Tracking be Fun?

Builders and Contractors Build Construction is a goal oriented profession. Tracking warranty is not high up on the list for a lot of builders...

Jobsite Safety — Innovative Approaches

Jobsite Safety — Innovative Approaches

Most companies have a safety program. “Safety is job one” the slogan reads. Often times the safety program is a product of the front office...

Green — Building Practices Promo

Green — Building Practices Promo

GREEN BUILDING PRACTICES You Need to Take the Credit! Ok, this one is primarily for homebuilders. Commercial industries are usually way out front...

Work Scopes  — Window Poster

Work Scopes — Window Poster

Sometimes small things can have a big impact. This poster was part of a follow-up to initiating a work scopes program. I created matching icons,...

Website — Awesome  Warranty Web Portal

Website — Awesome Warranty Web Portal

WARRANTY WEB PORTAL – HOME PAGE The Warranty Web Portal is a value added service for your customers, a time saver for the front office,...

Work Scopes — A Smarter Way

Work Scopes — A Smarter Way

The backbone of any builder’s construction process is a work scopes program. Why? Because work scopes gives the builder, a certain...

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