http://www.qualifiedremodeler.com QualifiedRemodeler.com en-us Copyright 2008 Cygnus Business Media Fri, 25 Jul 2008 06:05:47 -0400 Fri, 25 Jul 2008 06:05:47 -0400 Editorial http://www.qualifiedremodeler.com QualifiedRemodeler.com http://www.qualifiedremodeler.com/global/rsslogo.jpg 88 31 Editorial http://www.qualifiedremodeler.com/print/Qualified-Remodeler/Why-Satisfaction-Really-Matters/1$950 http://www.qualifiedremodeler.com/print/Qualified-Remodeler/Why-Satisfaction-Really-Matters/1$950 Remodeling professionals who’ve weathered many storms — both internal and external — have learned not to be braggarts. rss@qualifiedremodeler.com Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:53:00 -0400 Editorial http://www.qualifiedremodeler.com/print/Qualified-Remodeler/An-Immigrant-Story/1$921 http://www.qualifiedremodeler.com/print/Qualified-Remodeler/An-Immigrant-Story/1$921 Long before Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet fogged up the window of a car in storage on the Titanic in the movie of the same name — thus popularizing the long-ago saga for today’s generation — my grandfather, at every opportunity, would tell us how near he was to actually boarding the doomed vessel in April 1912. rss@qualifiedremodeler.com Tue, 8 Jul 2008 17:27:00 -0400 Editorial http://www.qualifiedremodeler.com/print/Qualified-Remodeler/There-Goes-the-Subdivision/1$891 http://www.qualifiedremodeler.com/print/Qualified-Remodeler/There-Goes-the-Subdivision/1$891 During the not-so-distant past, when production housing boomed like never before, there were years when nearly 2 million homes were built annually in this country. rss@qualifiedremodeler.com Tue, 8 Jul 2008 17:27:00 -0400 Editorial http://www.qualifiedremodeler.com/print/Qualified-Remodeler/A-Good-Time-to-Start-Again/1$838 http://www.qualifiedremodeler.com/print/Qualified-Remodeler/A-Good-Time-to-Start-Again/1$838 The legendary ad man Leo Burnett, whose Chicago-based firm went on to create Tony the Tiger for Kellogg’s, the Marlboro man for R.J. Reynolds, and the “friendly skies” campaign for United Airlines, among others, launched his firm in the 1930s, in the depth of the Great Depression. rss@qualifiedremodeler.com Tue, 8 Jul 2008 17:27:00 -0400 Editorial http://www.qualifiedremodeler.com/print/Qualified-Remodeler/What-is-Your-Currency/1$804 http://www.qualifiedremodeler.com/print/Qualified-Remodeler/What-is-Your-Currency/1$804 The late William F. Buckley Jr. once said he’d rather be governed by the first 2,000 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than the 2,000-member faculty at an esteemed university near Boston. rss@qualifiedremodeler.com Tue, 8 Jul 2008 17:27:00 -0400 Editorial http://www.qualifiedremodeler.com/print/Qualified-Remodeler/To-Grow--Resist-the-Always-Busy-Myth/1$769 http://www.qualifiedremodeler.com/print/Qualified-Remodeler/To-Grow--Resist-the-Always-Busy-Myth/1$769 Something my parents often told their five children took me years to fully comprehend: “A busy man always has time.” rss@qualifiedremodeler.com Tue, 8 Jul 2008 17:27:00 -0400 Editorial http://www.qualifiedremodeler.com/print/Qualified-Remodeler/The-Remodeling-Market-Will-Hold-Up-Well-in-2008/1$726 http://www.qualifiedremodeler.com/print/Qualified-Remodeler/The-Remodeling-Market-Will-Hold-Up-Well-in-2008/1$726 Until recently it was very hard for some remodelers to remember a time when leads for jobs were not in plentiful supply. rss@qualifiedremodeler.com Tue, 8 Jul 2008 17:27:00 -0400 Editorial http://www.qualifiedremodeler.com/print/Qualified-Remodeler/Green-and-Filled-with-Products/1$703 http://www.qualifiedremodeler.com/print/Qualified-Remodeler/Green-and-Filled-with-Products/1$703 Remodelers are pragmatists and problem solvers. That, I think, is why green remodeling developed so slowly and is, only now, reaching critical mass. rss@qualifiedremodeler.com Tue, 8 Jul 2008 17:27:00 -0400 Editorial QualifiedRemodeler.com: Editorial http://www.qualifiedremodeler.com/online/section.jsp?siteSection=1 http://www.qualifiedremodeler.com rss@qualifiedremodeler.com Tue, 1 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500