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Self-Taught MBA: Getting Social With Guerrilla Marketing
7 commentsGet started with social media even if you’re not interested. It’s free and easy to learn, and it offers the best guerrilla-marketing opportunity in history. Here’s a builders' primer, the first of two installments.
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Digital Toolbox: Getting an Education Without Leaving the Job Site
2 commentsNew contributor Sergio Grado provides accessible and practical advice on how to keep growing your knowledge base even when you have no time to spend on furthering your education.
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Self Taught MBA: Learning to Walk Again: Life Lessons From a Professional Negotiator
Mike Walker lived the rise and fall of the real-estate market as a broker and developer, but really learned his trade on the way down. Nowadays, Walker teaches effective negotiation strategies and skills in 14 cities, and almost as many states. He talks about how he learned so much about negotiating and what he believes are the negotiator’s top three strategies.
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Self Taught MBA: Empowering Homeowners at ArmchairBuilder.com
1 commentBuilding a business by empowering homeowners, ArmchairBuilder.com provides DIY support online, internationally and for free. How does entrepreneur Michael Luckado make money?
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Self-Taught MBA: Developing Executive Thinking
The manager focuses on doing things right; the executive focuses on the right thing to do. The manager asks how and when; the executive asks what and why.
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Self Taught MBA: Going to Where the Going Is Good, Part 4
Head for the equator: Continuing to explore promising building business niches, here’s the last profile illustrating how good fortune sometimes comes through relocating. In this case, it’s the story of a southbound immigration: A successful Midwestern developer dodged the recession and found continued growth and prosperity in Ecuador.
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Self Taught MBA: Going to Where the Going Is Good, Part 3
1 commentContinuing to explore promising building business strategies, here’s a third profile illustrating how good fortune sometimes comes through relocating. In this case, it’s a story that has played out millions of times in the United States, and one at the core our democracy, since most of us are or descend from someone who came to America for a better life.
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Self Taught MBA: Going to Where the Going is Good, Part 2
Continuing with our exploration of construction-business niches, here’s the second of two profiles illustrating how some builders find good fortune by relocating. Determined to survive the downturn, this Montana developer discovered black gold in a mobile-home park.
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Self Taught MBA: Going to Where the Going is Good, Part 1
3 commentsWe have talked about strategies to develop a business niche that works in today’s challenging environment. But there’s another strategy, and that’s to go the business climate is sunny.
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Self Taught MBA: From Single to Multifamily Builder
2 commentsThe transition from single family to small multifamily builder presents fewer challenges than from homebuilder to remodeler. You use the same designers, the same subs, and even the same mindset. Now that the multifamily market is booming, perhaps there's an opportunity for you.
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How to Paint Fiber-Cement Siding
Painter Jim Lacey shares some tips for caulking and painting fiber-cement siding. read more
