Thought proceeds action. So provoking thought can proceed provoking action. We are a year into a manufactured housing sales upturn, that's welcome news. But what lies ahead? Doesn't that depend on what pros like you think about and decide to do?
Even with the Labor day weekend, we are off to a heady pace in readers of our star studded September issue. Why? Is it because we have so many thought provoking featured articles by 17 different experts?
The future of Factory Built Home Retailing?
Your publisher doesn't lack for thoughts, thanks in large part to years of insights gleaned from so many top pros. So it is a pleasure for us to bring you and other manufactured housing industry aficionados a broad spectrum of your peers provoking thought every month.
This month we share the thoughts of attorney and industry veteran Allen Hutto, who tells us about a retail trend they are watching in their state. Compare and contrast that trend with the trend described recently in Industry Voices by Lance Inderman.
Retail legend and community owner Dick Moore shares a perspective on the industry that is provoking thought. One of Texas' modern manufactured home retailing legends, Lance Inderman presents a new column in an issue of keen interest to manufacturers and retailers alike. Do you have a business with assets to protect? Then you better read attorney Kurt Kelly's thought provoking column today!
Do you realize the opportunities that Dr. Harold Hunt's Shale of the Century could mean for businesses and professionals like you or a friend of yours? Read it, share it and find out! Dig deeply into economist Hunt's power point and charts, because I spotted some areas that are not booming yet, but could be growth areas in the near future if the regulatory policies are reset.
Speaking of insights. Make sure your sales and marketing team reads Dan Rinzema's manufactured home buyer's survey.
Learn More to Earn More
Dr. Hunt's presentation at the Texas Manufactured Housing Association last month are the reasons why events like Louisville 2013 and your association are so vital to all of us.
1500+ pros came to Louisville in 2012. By popular demand, the show has grown its space by 50% for 2013!
Then don't forget that the big daddy of the Manufactured Housing Industry Trade Shows, Tunica will follow 5 weeks later. Tunica is the largest show in the country, Louisville the largest indoor show. Both will have strong seminars to inform, inspire and provoke thought and positive action. Be there, be ahead of the curve. I'll be there and last year some 3,500 others who are your peers came to those two events too! Expect both to grow and draw attendees from across North America, possibly beyond.
Communities, Fair Housing and Budgets
In the light of two recent HUD Fair Housing cases against manufactured housing communities, it is a good time to read Attorney Nadeen Green's – our Fair Housing Lady – Blacks Actually do Get Old. This should be required reading for marketers, managers, sales pros and anyone who directly or indirectly deals with the home buying public. The legal action you could avoid makes her column a must read, no-brainer!
If you've ever had questions about budgeting – and who besides the federal government hasn't? – check out Chrissy Jackson, ACM. Chrissy's latest column in her fine series on budgeting is a practical tool to develop, improve and properly use a budget. The budget – and bottom line – you improve may be your firm's own!
Speaking of Feds, budgets and investments…
…John Steele Gordon's Government makes Terrible Investors is a thought provoking read.
Our Ronald Reagan eye-opening flashback column is balanced out by our exclusive interview, A Cup of Coffee with…Congressman Joe Donnelly.
Next month, we may have not one, but possibly two more of our popular A Cup of Coffee interviews. Green Courte Partners respected Chairman Randy Rowe plans to join us in October, 2012. When this legendary investor in Communities speaks, smart pros listen. So please watch for it.
Do you have someone you'd like to see us interview? Please send us your thought provoking suggestions.
Then why not relax and enjoy a few minutes with industry veteran Ken Haynes, who shares his perspective on the recent RV/MH Hall of Fame induction dinner.
Are looking to place a bet on the upcoming presidential race? See what the Colorado University election study we published – that uses a 100% successful system predicting elections going back to 1980 – has to say. Whether you bet on elections or not, please do place your informed vote in the ballot box on the first Tuesday in November.
Cheating at Checkers?
I can't think of any other speaker in the factory built housing industry who has addressed more companies and associations than our ever popular columnist, Tim Connor. Tim has given 4000 live presentations, the fruits of a stellar career in management and sales. Does he motivate? Yes, but this isn't rah-rah. Tim is meaty, bottom-line building strategies. Do you manage people? Better read his column and see if your company is Cheating at Checkers.
Once you do, you'll see why Tim has sold 2 million books like:
– 81 Challenges Smart Managers Face
– Emerging from Life's Valleys
which includes the one million copies sold of his International best selling sales classic, Secrets of the Soft Sell. No one I know of involved in sales related to systems or factory built housing even comes close.
Readers are leaders. Respectfully, you and your team should be reading here as well as reading more books that can help you grow your results.
Problem Solving, Marketing, 20 Million Homes and the Revolution
Zig Ziglar has been inspiring and Solving Problems for decades. He is one of many who inspired my career; maybe he will do the same for you or others on your team too. Brief yet thought provoking reading!
Because the U.S. will need 20 million homes, see why that and The Internet by the Numbers could provoke thoughts on how you could profit from the coming Manufactured Housing Revolution.
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