Web Evolution

Builders will look to technology to build relationships with prospects and buyers.

Within the next three years, builders will expand their use of the Internet and wireless technology to create valuable relationships with customers.

 

Explore more topics

 
 
 

Sales Systems

  • As Its Market Finally Stirs, a Colorado Springs Builder Makes Hay

    An outsourced sales force helps Challenger Homes generate big gains in closings.

     
  • Make the Most of the Housing Tax Credit

    NAHB, marketing experts urge builders to educate sales staff, buyers on details.

     
  • 09.0212-098.jpg(90)

    America's Best Builders 2009: Estes Builders

    The Washington State builder may be a small operation, but it has adopted best practices of volume builders

     
  • Top 10 New-Home Marketing Ideas of 2008

    It was an epic year for the sales and marketing teams of new-home builders, who did everything they could to connect with buyers.

     
  • Put A Shine On Your Sales Center and Models Every Day

    Put a shine on your sales center and models every day.

     
  • BD070901067L1.jpg (90)

    Market Smarts: Getting Connected

    Imagine waiting for a commuter train, checking messages and e-mail on your PDA or cell phone, and receiving an alert ping asking if you'll accept a 30-second sound bite about a builder offering new homes in the area. That's just one high-tech marketing method employed by T.H. Properties (THP), one...

     
  • American Standard to Sell Kitchen/Bath Unit

    Company will sell its flagship brands to and change its name to Trane as it shifts focus to the air conditioning business.

     
  • BD070401106L1.jpg (90)

    Spinning Your Web

    In the old days, internet-based leads that came into Bowen Family Homes' Web site would go to Internet director Kelly Kenton Fink, who would parcel them out to the on-site sales agents. Busy with flesh-and-blood prospects standing in front of them, the sales agents often set these leads to the side...

     
  • Go the Extra Mile

    FACED WITH HIGH LEVELS OF INVENTORY and contingency buyers and a sluggish resale market, builders are becoming increasingly creative in helping customers sell their existing homes.

     
  • Software Bookends

    HOME BUILDERS LOOKING FOR A WAY TO understand HomeFront, the sales and warranty management software from Red Deer, Alberta, Canada–based Zybertech, should think of it as a pair of bookends that run on either side of BuilderMT's purchasing system and the Sage Timberline Office accounting and...