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This is a must attend show for residential remodeling and building professionals. From a revamped conference program that includes 2 new boot camps to an expanded lineup of LIVE Building Clinics with an all-star cast of industry leaders, you won’t want to miss this year’s show in Louisville! Use promo code: NARI when registering to receive a free expo pass or 10% off conference passes. Early-bird pricing ends September 2nd!
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Like many in the remodeling industry, Elena Eskandari comes from a family of remodelers. Originally from Russia and trained in Fine Arts, she made a career change and received her BA in Interior Design in 2009. Learn more about a ProRemodeler Magazine's 2019 "40 Under 40" winner.
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Playing With Fire
Ryan Neely of Camp Chef joins the guys around the grill to discuss all things seared, smoked, and grilled. Camp Chef takes outdoor cooking to another level with their extensive line of products and accessories. Listen Now!
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Every business owner should know financial management basics. Complete these three steps to keep your bookkeeping on track and facilitate growth.
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NARI Accreditation
The best way is to set it up with the right business systems in place. When your business operates effectively and efficiently, you can both avoid unnecessary costs and profit eaters and have more time to focus on bringing in new business when it’s needed most.
Achieving accreditation for your business with NARI’s Accredited Remodeling Company program will not only help you set your business up for success and prepare it to weather economic circumstances beyond your control, but it will also give it a boost in credentials that can make all the difference when business becomes more scarce and the client has a lot of competition to choose from.
Find out more about how you can get your remodeling business accredited.
NARI Certification
Today we will feature one of NARI’s certification programs, the Certified Remodeler (CR) certification.
With the U.S. population of people 65 and older nearing 50 million, this age group represents nearly 15 percent of the total U.S. population. Increasingly, people are planning to stay in their homes as they age. Are you positioned as a professional knowledgeable in Universal Design to assure them that you’re the right remodeling partner to help them prepare their home for this next stage of their life? If not, you’re missing out on a tremendous opportunity to either specialize or diversify your business by capturing this market segment.
NARI Universal Design Certified Professionals (UDCP) are recognized as experienced remodelers, skilled in all aspects of universal design and remodeling.
The UDCP Program addresses the key concepts of Universal Design as applied to residential remodeling:
- Conducting client needs assessments
- Universal design applications used in residential remodeling
- Construction techniques used to implement universal design to a remodeling project
- Plumbing and electrical systems unique to universal design
- Differences between model building codes and ones described in the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
Universal Design Certified Professional (UDCP) – Starts September 17th and October 22nd
Certified Remodeler (CR) online prep course – Starts September 9th
Certified Kitchen and Bath Remodeler (CKBR) – Starts September 12th
Certified Lead Carpenter (CLC) – September 19th
Certified Remodeling Project Manager (CRPM) – Starts September 24th
You can explore all NARI certifications to determine which one is the best for your career here.
Read these first-hand accounts from NARI Certified Professionals.
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As open floor plans continue to grow in popularity, homeowners want more choices that reflect their personal style. GE Appliances offers more premium finishes than anyone to match the unique taste of every homeowner—from Stainless and Black Stainless to Slate and Black Slate.
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NARI offers a variety of FREE educational webinars to help you boost your knowledge and improve your business.
Here’s what we’ve got coming up:
Creating an Exit Strategy
August 15, 2019 at 12 pm Central Time
Most contractors are an independent sort—they start their own business, begin small, and then over time grow to a certain success level. But at some point every business owner faces an inevitable (and extremely important) question—How do I leave my business, on my own terms, and in my best financial interests? Creating an Exit Strategy explores the almost-never-mentioned topic of how a construction owner can successfully retire. The two primary exit strategies will be discussed, along with the important questions each owner must answer to make the best decision based on his or her unique needs and wants.
15 Avoidable Ways to Lose Money as a Contractor
August 27, 2019 at 12 pm Central Time
Sometimes, a job goes south because of a devastating weather event, the loss of key personnel due to injury, material or equipment failure, or other circumstances that can wreck profit. But, there are also many habits, practices, and decisions based on misinformation and inaccurate “truisms” that contractors unknowingly engage in. These may have just as devastating impact on your bottom line, but without the accompanying drama.
Creating and Making Money with a Real Lead Carpenter System
September 10, 2019 at 12 pm Central Time
The lead carpenter system is so far the greatest production method to impact the remodeling industry. Many companies are enjoying the countless advantages this system helps facilitate including higher profits, better customer satisfaction and employee retention. Yet most companies, as well as many carpenters calling themselves lead carpenters, don’t really understand the roles and responsibilities of a “true” lead carpenter. Before you can hire or train employees to implement the system at your company, you must understand what is really expected of the business as well as a Lead Carpenter. Attend this presentation before you make assumptions. You might be surprised at what a real Lead Carpenter System can do for your business and aspiring field employees!
Click here to view a full list of upcoming NARI webinars.
Click here to view previously recorded on-demand webinars.
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PowerTips Unscripted
In this episode, Victoria and Mark talk to Brandon Bailey, who’s a textbook example of a successful remodeler who made the right moves after deciding to significantly grow his business.
Brandon is an owner of Bailey Remodeling & Construction, a design build company in Louisville, KY. After starting his business in 2005, Brandon was where many of our members were when they were starting out — producing good, reputable work but spinning their wheels with long hours, no systems in place, and no predictable revenue model. Sound familiar?
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Smart planning can help you keep your business running if disaster strikes. You’ll want to take the right steps to prevent and prepare for a disaster, and know where to get aid if a disaster strikes. SBA has put together checklists and safety tips for different types of disasters.
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Some of you had to be following the U.S. women's soccer team as it made its march to winning the World Cup on July 7. What an inevitable outcome it was. The final game, against the Netherlands, was played in Lyon, France.
After the game, the crowd began chanting "Equal pay." The inequity of the U.S women's team's pay compared to their male counterparts is egregious, as it is with so many enterprises.
Here you have a group of women who represent the U.S. well. The team includes people of different colors and sexual identities. Just like you all have in your respective locales, whether you know it or not.
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This note came in recently from a specialty contractor and I wanted to share it with you. There are always at least two sides to any scenario, but if you want to stay in business, consider it a lesson on how not to treat a subcontractor.
I have a scenario where the contractor is trying to get me to work that was not included in the original scope of work for free and getting hostile when I told him I cannot do that but I am willing to put together a proposal. Then I found out the superintendent of the job was trying to hire my guy behind my back to do this extra work. I was wondering if there was an article you guys have or any advice to handle this. See a lot of stuff regarding s***ty subs not too many on the GC side.
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Broan took recessed lighting a step further by incorporating powerful, quiet ventilation in the same design. These fan/lights disappear into the ceiling and match perfectly with other recessed lights. Whether a bathroom, closet, or high-traffic family room, Broan helps keep any space fresher and comfortable.
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Remodelers Advantage
There’s a federal program that can help you get workers from outside the remodeling industry trained and paid while learning the skills you need them to have.
The Workforce Innovation & Opportunity Act took effect in 2014, and is designed to help unemployed people get jobs, training, education, and support to get a foothold in a new career path. Implementation of the grants is handled by individual state offices.
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The U.S. economy is strong — so is the remodeling market, which is estimated to grow 3 percent or more to nearly $400 billion in 2019. These gains come on top of several years of even more robust growth for remodeling. That is why it is so striking that “value” has gained traction with clients, moving to the No. 2 spot when viewed as a trait of overall satisfaction. In addition, “budget” as a factor in satisfaction has jumped from the No. 15 spot in each of the last two years to the No. 7 spot this year.
Could this subtle shift toward bottom-line results, among others year over year, be a harbinger of larger shifts in the market? Take the latest forecast for remodeling from John Burns Real Estate Consulting. It sees a slowdown in remodeling activity derived from big projects (everything over $5,000) and strong growth in the number of small projects (under $5,000). There are a number of reasons why the average ticket is falling back. First, younger homeowners are doing more home improvement; DIY is ticking upward too. Second, after years of rising house prices in most metro areas, that growth is slowing, meaning slower equity growth. As a result, maybe this year, for the first time in a while, people are putting tighter limits on what they are willing to invest.
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This is not a new, earth-shattering concept. It is based on well-established factual research. All of which was developed by constantly surveying customers’ buying habits, then examining why they do or don’t do business.
The concepts of using customer-satisfaction selling can be described as a problem-solving discussion between the contractor-salesperson and the prospect that leads toward a meeting of the minds, which deepens the dependence of each on the other.
The contractor-salesperson’s goal should be to elicit information, which unearths values and needs that might not have been otherwise expressed clearly, enabling the salesperson to appear collaborative, effectively establishing mutual trust.
You may think you do what that last paragraph describes, which then begs the question: Why is it that so often?
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People have been using ladders for thousands of years. Archaeologists have found cave paintings in Spain showing people using ladders that date earlier than the invention of the wheel. Unfortunately, the basic design of ladders hasn't changed much in all that time. Ladders are built to ANSI standards and to meet OSHA requirements, but their design is very simple, and they can be easily misused.
Many industrial companies have started removing all ladders from the job site in an effort to reduce the risk of ladder-related accidents. Instead of focusing on getting rid of ladders, however, companies should focus on replacing traditional ladders with better, safer ladders. Here are some common problems with ladders that cause most ladder accidents.
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