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Understanding the profit cycle is the first step to increasing your profitability. This brief webinar provides best practice guidance on how to implement a construction management solution that aligns with your profit cycle and improves efficiency, ultimately increasing your profitability.

The market for home remodeling is hot. In this brief webinar, we look at the economic outlook for home remodeling from sources such as Remodeling's Residential Remodeling Index and Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Studies. We also show you the latest trends homeowners are asking for in cabinetry and home storage as they plan for upgrades.

The LBM industry has grown steadily for nine years, with the top 100 ProSales dealers growing their combined revenue to $61.46 billion, according to the 2019 ProSales 100 report. However, this success doesn’t mean the industry is without its challenges. The biggest challenges are in hiring, training, and retaining quality employees, according to more than half (58%) of ProSales magazine readers in a 2019 survey.

In response to this industrywide challenge, Dealer’s Choice and ProSales magazine conducted a joint survey, in 2020, to benchmark the hiring, retention, and training practices of construction supply dealers. The research found that most dealers have recruitment, retention, and training practices, but the degree to which they offer them varies greatly.

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Net Zero Homes are estimated to grow 33% from 2015-2016 alone, but why are they accounting for less than 1% of the U.S. housing stock?
Learn how you can boost your sales of Net Zero homes!

Five leaders of modular home construction share their informed perspectives on one of the housing industry’s most compelling topics.

The objective for your multi-family properties should not only be to fill vacancies, but also to get the highest rent possible in your marketplace. This eBook shows strategies on how to do that and also provides case studies of what worked for three top performing companies. Learn how to get the highest returns in any market condition.

Boost profitability through customer stratification. Customer stratification is a tool that can help your organization identify which clients warrant greater investments of your time and energy and which ones erode your profits by overloading your resources with demands. The practice of customer stratification allows LBM business leaders to focus on their best customers and minimize time on unprofitable partnerships.

How 3 key themes are the frame we use to help you choose the right tools to streamline operations, drive growth, thrive and compete.

Discover strategies and tools used by top LBM dealers and distributors to capitalize on periods of growth to become more efficient, more profitable, and better positioned competitively. If your business isn’t growing faster than your competitors’ business, you’re losing market share. And it’s relative growth that counts - because relative growth impacts your purchasing power, customer perception, and competitive positioning.

If you’ve started to think your lumber and building materials (LBM) supply business could be getting more from your software solution, then this document may provide some food for thought. The relationship between your business and your software solution are clear. Software system upgrades are not decisions to take lightly. Read these 10 indicators that you have outgrown your current solution and ready to move on to a new option.