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Self-Taught MBA: Managing Expectations
Posted by FPR Whatever your role in the construction process, ensuring customer satisfaction during the weeks and months required to complete a typical project is a tall order. It helps to go over the...
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Self-Taught MBA: Filters for a Perfect Fit
Posted by FPR A successful Dallas remodeler tell us how he identifies clients that are a perfect fit for his company, and avoid costly client mismatches.
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Self-Taught MBA: Should you Embrace New Urbanism?
Posted by FPR The movement is all around--and likely being built in your neighborhood--but what impact does New Urbanism really have on real-estate values and sales? We explore the subject with Steve...
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Self-Taught MBA: Accounting for Callbacks
Posted by FPR Creating a separate “job” to track all you spend on callbacks may help you identify weak points in your construction processes and fix them.
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Self-Taught MBA: Head (Way Down) South Young Man
Posted by FPR Until recently, only Latin Americans headed toward “El Norte,” for good jobs with real wages. Nowadays, North American builders are also heading south, to Latin America, looking for good...
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Self-Taught MBA: Asking for "Two More Weeks"
Posted by FPR A smarter way to handle the inevitable delays.
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Self-Taught MBA: An Economist on Homebuilding and Remodeling Today
Posted by FPR Taking the pulse of the present and near future homebuilding business with economist Elliot Eisenberg, Ph.D.
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Self-Taught MBA: Motivating Your Team to Improve Productivity
Posted by FPR Unlike most industries, where production has risen dramatically over the last two decades, the construction industry remains stuck in a rut. Researchers suggest that construction-worker...
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Self-Taught MBA: New Business Books
Posted by FPR Some titles to consider as gifts to yourself (open them before Christmas), business books worth your precious time and money.
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Self-Taught MBA: Drones for Homebuilders
Posted by FPR Toying with the idea of a holiday drone purchase? I’ll give you a business reason to go ahead and buy one.
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Self-Taught MBA: Builder Uses His Business Expertise to Help Others
Posted by FPR Bill Asdal turned a successful remolding company into a business school for other remodelers and even some business that have nothing to do with construction.
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Self-Taught MBA: Investments, Costs, and Expenses: What's the difference?
Posted by FPR Using financial terms the wrong way causes confusion that costs you money. Learn the real meaning of the three most common words used to describe financial transactions.
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Self-Taught MBA: Small-Scale Network Marketing
Posted by FPR Leveraging the relationships of your employees can help you drum up business when you need it most.
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Self-Taught MBA: The Triple Constraint
Posted by FPR Project managers recognize three basic “constraints” on almost every project, including the project’s scope, schedule, and cost. I like to add two more, quality and risk.
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Self-Taught MBA: Better Ballpark Estimates
Posted by FPR The professional project manager’s "Beta Distribution" method of ballpark estimating represents your best defense against bidding too high or too low at the initial phases of a project.
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Diminished Domiciles
Posted by FPR SHARE THIS: Elliot F. Eisenberg, Ph.D on today's housing supply vs. demand
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Self-Taught MBA: Interesting, New Opportunities for Green Developers
Posted by FPR A developer friend in the Midwest is now in the business of buying distressed wetlands. Why I asked him? To trade, he told me. Developers can buy his wetlands to offset impact on their...
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News on Housing Starts from Elliot F. Eisenberg, Ph.D
Posted by FPR The bowtie economist says: The rest of 2016 will show no meaningful month-over-month gains.
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Self-Taught MBA: The Morality of Code Enforcement
Posted by FPR Reflections from Ecuador. It’s not just about money, your work as a builder carries as much responsibility for the life safety of your clients as a pilot for his passengers or a surgeon...
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