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This issue: K&B: Dollars and Sense — Today's homeowners are demanding increased value in their kitchen and bath remodels. We show you how to deliver.

 
 
 

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5 Surefire Ways To Attract More Referrals

Kyle Hunt

Kyle Hunt is the owner of Remodel Your Marketing and creator of The Excellence Club. After years of experience in the remodeling industry, Kyle now installs his proven and practical Marketing System for remodelers throughout the United States. Kyle resides in Michigan with his wife, Sarah, and their three children, Thomas, Piper, and Calvin. Contact Hunt at 517-548-7140 or email him at kyle@remodelyourmarketing.com. Follow Kyle on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/KyleHunt

“Hi – my name is ______ and I was referred to you by one of your happy clients.” Does it get any better than this? Isn’t that sweet music to our ears? Somebody who has taken their "know, like, and trust" with you – and transferred it over to a friend, family member, or colleague. That's as good as it gets!
 
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Responsibility and Your Relationship to It

Paul Winans

Paul Winans' career runs parallel to the changes in the remodeling industry over the last 40 years. From beginnings as a carpenter who didn't want to run a business, Paul teamed with his wife, Nina, to build a highly successful remodeling company. After almost three decades, Paul and Nina sold the business to someone outside the company, a rare event in the industry.

There are many remodeling businesses where there is a crazy entrepreneur who thinks the business is a great idea and a supporting spouse who wanted nothing to do with running a business doing a lot of the support work. Listen to one another. Both spouses need to own any major decision.
 
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On Sale! Cheap!!!

Ed Voytovich

Ed Voytovich, a 40-year remodeling veteran, is BPI-certified, a HERS Rater, a licensed home inspector in N.Y. state, and has a Ph.D. in English literature. Most recently he has served as the executive director of the Building Performance Contractors Association of NYS and as a consulting adviser to Building Efficiency Resources. He now works with Home Energy Performance by Halco, in central New York. Reach him at ed@TheBER.com.

No one can doubt that cheap sells; all we need to do is to walk into a Big Box retailer, the destination of choice for screw-it-up-yourselfers and low-bid contractors. "Cheap" corrodes the system, puts the providers of good products and technology at a disadvantage, and often drives them out of business.
 
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Rejecting Mr. Potato Head Mentality

Kathy Shertzer

Kathy Shertzer has been the officer manager/gatekeeper for eight years for DuKate Fine Remodeling, a design/build firm in Franklin, Ind.

Why are we intimidated by truth? It is a common problem for a lot of us, even for those who consider themselves to be honest and forthright. But the truth is, we are more often than not just like Mr. Potato Head in Toy Story. You know the part I mean, where Mr. Potato Head removes his lips and proceeds to kiss his bottom with them. We say polite things that are not true.
 
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Feeling Uncertain? Here's the Prescription...

Bruce Case

Bruce Case started his career with Case in 1996, and is a second-generation member of the Case family to serve on the senior management team. Bruce is President of Case Design/Remodeling, Inc., a leading full-service home improvement organization that includes CaseInstituteofRemodeling.com, an online knowledge database.

Uncertainty runs deep. With our country, our political system, our economy, our businesses, and our future. Add to that the typical winter challenges (personal stress, client stress, backlogs tightening, etc.). I don't know about you, but often my first reaction in the face of all this is to scramble. What should we be doing that we aren't? What new things should we try? Should we jump into a new business entirely?
 
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Media Coverage of EPA's Lead Rule Performance

Shawn McCadden

Shawn McCadden founded, operated, and sold a successful design/build company. A co-founder of the Residential Design/Build Institute and former director of education for a national K&B remodeling franchise, Shawn speaks at industry events and consults with remodeling companies.

At a RRP workshop I attended last week, sponsored by the Lead and Environmental Hazards Association (LEHA), several renovators complained to Mike Wilson of EPA about EPA's handling of the RRP rule. Renovators complying with the RRP rule have been asking for two specific actions from EPA to help level the playing field: consumer awareness and adequate enforcement.
 
 
 
 

Easy Demolition With Ecobust

Products editor Lauren Hunter visits with Ecobust, a new environmentally friendly product that makes surface demolition quick and easy. Watch how this product works to break up concrete without the noise, dust, or hassle of a jackhammer.

 
 
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