Managing your online presence is an import part of your marketing strategy. Here is an update on what is trending now to help keep it simple.
Selling Homes Online: An Inside Look At Builders' Experiences
In this editorial webinar, Symone Strong, associate editor at BUILDER speaks with Ronda Conger, VP of CBH Homes and Kevin Oakley, managing partner at Do You Convert to answer questions about the current status and future of online home buying.
Discussion centers around their real-life experiences implementing a web based home buying strategy, how they overcame their biggest challenges and advice for others who are interested in this lucrative venture.
Embedding Equity in Design Practice
Hear how some in the industry are working to advance impartiality in their firms, and what we should be doing collectively to promote social equity in the built environment.
Should Your Business Accept Credit Cards?
Offering clients the choice to make credit card payments is an affordable option that helps you get paid faster, without asking the client to sacrifice control or convenience. Here are some insights on why it might be time for your small business to start letting clients pay by credit card.
Sick & Tired of Paper Checks?
The use of paper checks comes with pitfalls—costly processing, increased labor, delayed access to funds, and sometimes other headaches. There is an affordable, available technology to settle bills with credit cards and online payment processing. Here’s a look at some of the proven benefits of taking your accounts receivable paperless.
Business Development for Architecture Firms: 6 Strategies to Support Client Success
Wearing the hat of Architect, salesperson, project manager and bill collector are essential parts of running your architecture firm. This guide provides proven tactics that architects and design professionals can use to leverage modern payment solutions to help run and grow your successful business—all the while delivering exceptional client service.
Getting Paid Today: What Building and Design Professionals Need to Know
With the onset of the Digital Revolution, technological growth brought change to entire industries. How people communicate, how they shop, and how they pay for services has evolved. As a business owner, know that clients prefer easy and efficient ways to pay by card or online.
By accepting electronic payments, show the world you’ve kept your finger on the pulse of advancement and convenience. Let's break down how online payments allow you to create a modern client experience - and how they, in turn, benefit your bottom line.
Building Quality and Reducing Risk During Disruptions
The lingering effects of supply chain strain and the new ways homeowners want to use their spaces are simultaneously creating positive business opportunities for residential contractors and presenting new pressures for home professionals to perform during unpredictable times.
Increase profitability and ease the impacts of material acquisition, customer needs, and labor demands by incorporating flexible business practices and consumer financing solutions.
The Ultimate Guide to Zero Net Energy Building With Propane
Zero net energy (ZNE) construction represents a vast opportunity for builders and contractors. So what is a zero net energy home? In the simplest terms, a ZNE home produces as much energy as it uses, most commonly using efficient construction methods. Achieving ZNE performance involves a whole-building design approach to consider all of a home's systems — the building envelope, mechanical systems, and lighting and appliances — in an integrated way.
This e-book collects our most valuable resources on ZNE projects to help you define what ZNE means for you and examine factors such as energy prices, net metering policies, solar resources, incentives, and budget. You’ll see that getting to zero doesn’t mean giving up desirable and high-performance gas systems.
Why Avenue5 Residential Replaced Deposits With Lease Insurance Portfolio-Wide
Faced with constantly changing legislation and renter affordability issues, multifamily operator Avenue5 Residential, found security deposits and their alternatives to be a suboptimal practice that left their properties exposed to risk and added extra work for their teams. In effort to solve these issues, the operator selected LeaseLock as its exclusive national vendor to replace deposits portfolio-wide.
With LeaseLock's fully integrated lease insurance, Avenue5 gained stronger loss protection, alleviated administrative burdens for property teams, and created more affordable move-ins for their residents.
Download the case study to get the full scoop on Avenue5's decision-making process and performance outcomes.