News and PR
Turn Prospects Into Customers
April, 2008
Do you know how to stand apart from your competition? If you can't answer quickly or if you answer is "We deliver good value" or "We have a great reputation" then you missed your opportunity to stand above the rest.
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ideas April 2008.pdf 1.38 MB
Building Contract Homes In Slow Times
February, 2008
Many builders are shifting their strategy from building spec homes to contract homes to mitigate the downturn. Gone are the days of selling a spec before it's completed. Selling off your existing models and specs in favor of building contract homes is a sound strategy to ensure profitability, or at least survival.
Click to read on... Builder Architect Feb 2008.pdf 1.96 MB
Five Ways to Stand Apart From Other Custom Builders
November, 2007
Prospective home buyers need to understand what makes you better than and different from other builders. When they ask "Why should I build with you" you and your staff need to be ready to provide the correct 10-second answer.
Click to read on..Nations_Building_News.pdf 175.12 KB
SelectionWare Joins the NEFBA Team
October, 2007
SelectionWare is teaming with NEFBA to improve business processes of custom home builders. SelectionWare enables custom home builders to double the number of homes they construct annually while reducing headaches and costly mistakes.
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Technology to Help Improve Builders Business
August, 2007
Do you view your custom home buyers as an obstacle or an asset? Your answer may depend upon whether you have created sound processes, and use them, to help home buyers be "good" customers and happy to refer other clients to you.
Custom builders who spend the time up front, before a contract is signed, examining and improving their processes for interacting with customers, and who use those processes to assist thier clients through the home building experience, actually gain time-and reduce headaches-once construction is underway.
Click to read on . . . Sites-Tech-August.pdf 1.45 MB
Residential Architect - Making Dream Homes Come True
February, 2007
Andy Elsbury had a 6,300-square-foot house to build and about 6,300 decisions to make. Which knobs for the kitchen cabinets? There were 100,000 to choose from. What about floor tiles? Nine rooms needed them. There were too many toilets to count. Archways over doors. Carpet, brick and countertops.
Click to read on . . .Residential Architect Online article.pdf 28.62 KB
Necessity Drives This Father To Invention
March, 2007
Building a new home can be very stressful. You're confronted with questions and situations that are unfamiliar, constant deadlines from contractors, and you're taking on of the largest expenditures of your life.
Click to read on . . .Indianapolis Business Journal.pdf 669.40 KB
Custom Choices
June, 2007
SelectionWare, a new Web-based software from Indianapolis-based Custom Partnership Network, is targeted to cut in half the time investment that custom home buyers make during the building process. Builders load up their vendor information on a customized Web site, which lets home buyers make selections and conduct the bulk of their communications online.
Click to read on . . .RedOrbit News-Technology.pdf 25.11 KB
Software News: Homebuyers take 306 hours to pick amenities
May, 2007
The average custom homebuyer invests 306 hours in making selections, specifying changes and reviewing change orders during the custom home construction process, according to a survey recently conducted by SelectionWare, an Indianapolis-based firm that focuses exclusively on process management technology applications for the custom home industry.
Click to read on . . .Software-News.pdf 98.61 KB