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The NARI Achievement Awards recognize outstanding achievements by an individual, company, or NARI chapter that has worked to promote or enhance professional remodeling. These honors are bestowed annually across 11 categories celebrating leadership, professionalism, and dedication to the remodeling industry. Winners will be honored at the National Presidents’ and Awards Luncheon on April 24, 2020 at the Tradewinds Island Grand Resort in St. Pete Beach, FL. Click here for detailed information and how to apply.
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Enter your project and become eligible to win a Regional CotY award in one of 48 categories. All Regional winners move on to vie for the prestigious National CotY award where one National CotY winner is selected in each category. All winners will be recognized at the Evening of Excellence to be held on April 24th at the Tradewinds Island Grand Resort in St. Pete Beach, FL. Don’t delay and enter today! See the 2019 Regional and National Winning projects!
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Climbing to the Top
Every two story home has a stairway, and every stairway has a stair system. L.J. Smith Stair Systems has the easy, quick, on-trend solutions to keep your business, and your homeowners, climbing to the top! LISTEN NOW
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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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Do you work with clients who wish to stay in their home as they age? If so, a great way to differentiate yourself from the competition, and assure prospective clients you’re the right partner to prepare their home for this next stage in life, is to achieve NARI’s Universal Design Certified Professional (UDCP) certification.
Don’t miss the Universal Design Certified Professional (UDCP) certification prep course starting on October 22nd.
Universal Design Certified Professional (UDCP) online prep course – Starts October 22nd
Join the elite group of over 1000 NARI Certified Professionals and boost your skill set and credentials with one of NARI’s prestigious certifications.
You can explore all NARI certifications to determine which one is the best fit for your career here.
Read these first-hand accounts from NARI Certified Professionals.
Over 1000 NARI professionals already hold one or more of NARI’s prestigious certifications. But what about your company as a whole? Doesn’t it deserve the same recognition and validation?
NARI’s Accredited Remodeling Company program gives you an opportunity to lead your remodeling business through the industry’s highest honor, NARI Accreditation. The accreditation process serves as an opportunity to improve your company by assuring it complies with THE industry standard for remodeling business management. Best of all, achieving NARI Accreditation signals to prospective clients that they are selecting a company which has achieved the highest standards in the industry and is ready to partner with them for all of their remodeling needs. Find out more.
Check out these first-hand accounts of business owners who have already led their businesses through NARI Accreditation.
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 Nobody can say when, but experts and business indicators tell us the next economic downturn is close. You don’t have to stand by and watch your business and family be hurt. There’s a powerful set of tactics a GC can execute to insulate themselves from the negative impact of a down market. But it can’t wait. Once the next recession starts, it’s too late to make those changes. Take action today and learn what to do and how to do it in a FREE informative white paper from the Aspire Institute for Contractors.
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National Association of the Remodeling Industry
NARI offers a variety of FREE educational webinars to help you boost your knowledge and improve your business.
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Big 8 Exterior Door Installation Mistakes
October 3, 2019 at 12 pm Central Time
To create an effective building envelope, all penetrations in the exterior shell must be well sealed. This is especially true around windows and doors. Poor air sealing around windows and doors can allow the uncontrolled movement of air to infiltrate and exit the building increasing energy costs, reducing comfort, and negatively impacting indoor air quality. This learning unit will specifically look at the industry compliance standards in residential construction related to air sealing around doors, the best choice in air sealing products available today, and additional resources available to learn more about air sealing around windows and doors.
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- Understand the importance of air sealing around doors
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Knock the Socks off Your Clients: Rendering and Presentation Techniques
October 17, 2019 at 12 pm Central Time
With almost Sci-Fi quality technology swirling around them, Clients today expect (sometimes demand) to be Wowed when it comes to designer presentations. And knocking their socks off is imperative to all of us to close that sale. But great renderings and presentations can do so much more for our businesses. They can help set the right client expectations up front to prevent issues later. Preventing future issues protects our margins. They can easily offer multiple design options and make it easier to for all of us to make smart decisions in design. That leads to happy customers. And they can help inspire clients to both works with us and create their future spaces.
This session will share best practices in the most advanced, yet easy design, rendering and presentation technique used by successful designers just like you. From design technology to digital output to true Virtual Reality experiences … we’ll learn a lot and have some fun too.
Click here to view a full list of upcoming NARI webinars.
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Remodeling Mastery
You’re constantly hearing about businesses having to evolve at breakneck speeds to keep up with market changes, but what of the things that should be held constant? Without an overriding framework—a ‘Ten Commandments’ of sorts to keep you rooted in the fundamentals—it can be easy to lose sight of your core values and vision for your company. In this episode of Remodeling Mastery, Mark explains why increasingly complex businesses don’t need bigger playbooks, but a better understanding of certain core themes. LISTEN NOW
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All remodelers have a sales department. All remodelers have a production department. But few officially recognize a human resources department.
Alex Raisanan used her experience to build an HR department for TraVek, a remodeling company in Scottsdale, AZ. Through skill and creativity, the department was able to build its team by 123 percent in a tough labor market. LISTEN NOW
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We've gotten an early start on storm season, which means many of you have or will be getting calls for insurance repairs. Insurance work can be good business, but it can also waste your time if the insurance company is playing the three bids game. A letter we received:
I have been getting flooded with calls for quotes and am wondering how you would approach this.
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Remodeling Magazine
It takes focused hard work done as part of your weekly and monthly routines to get your company working for you, instead of you for it.
A client has been thinking about how to be doing more of what they want to be doing in their business and having others do the work they don't want to do. As part of this process, the owner laid out their first take on what that sort of change might look like.
Here is my response (with some slight modifications) to the page of notes the owner sent me.
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All small businesses need to understand the importance of cash flow. In the grand scheme of things, cash flow is an indicator of your business’ health. Namely, it’s one of the most decisive metrics in all of finance and accounting.
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