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We are consultants to home builders, specializing in purchase order systems, value engineered plans, cost control, training, and financial and operational management. |
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Stressed? Don’t earn what you deserve? Work too much?
Our home building clients typically improve their bottom line by 3 to 5 percent in the first year of working with us - much more over a three year period. They also work fewer hours and have more efficient businesses. Let us help you achieve the success you deserve.
We've worked for and run, some of the most successful home building companies in the country and used that experience to help hundreds of builders work fewer hours and earn significantly more money.
Take your first step to greater satisfaction and talk to us about how we can help. |
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Home Builder News & Updates |
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June 30, 2008
Special Management Message: Written in September 2006
As I travel the country working with builders to streamline their design studio operations and increase option sales, I often overhear this conversation:
The salesperson says "... no, that's not how we sell that option"
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June 23, 2008
Special Management Message: Written in April 2006
The message this week takes the form of a Q and A. The question came in several weeks ago after one of our live conferences from an SMA Advisory Board client, the response is from SMA Partner Joe Stoddard who used to deal with these production issues hands-on. The client name(s) have been changed to protect the innocent (and mostly because I didn’t have time to get the client’s permission to print his and his company’s name).
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June 18, 2008
Special Management Message: Written in February 2006
In the seminar “Time Management for Home Builders”, I talk about personal and organizational efficiencies, and the keys to getting more done in less time. In the 1980’s, when I first started conducting time management programs for industry professionals, we saw the great opportunity that the emerging technology of cell phones (we called them “car or truck phones” at the time) would have for the future.
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June 10, 2008
Special Management Message: Written in June 2006
We at SMA Consulting believe that "best practices" homebuilders have several basic traits in common, and one of the most important is the discipline to build each home at least seven times on paper (and in their heads) prior to actually starting construction on the jobsite.
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May 2, 2008
FREEBIE ALERT: Under our "Links" page we are now offering some previously published articles and some video clips on cost control. You may also view them from here:
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April 28, 2008
SMA enters the blog-o-sphere at http://buildfortomorrow.blogspot.com/ as Alex combs the web and posts articles of interest to homebuilders. A permanent link to our new blog can be found by clicking on “Links” off the SMA home page. |
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