Business satisfaction is a discipline. It has metrics. Follow-up surveys are required. Owners and managers may trick themselves into believing otherwise—that a verbal affirmation is all they need from a customer. But people are non-confrontational. …

Satisfying your customers is Job No. 1. At a basic level, it’s about caring. It’s about delivering quality services and products. It’s who you are as a person and more importantly, it’s who you are …

It is the eternal paradox: There are remodeling contractors who sometimes get more inquiries than they can deal with, then ignore the overflow and add to the negative images of the industry. There are large …

The U.S. economy is strong—so is the remodeling market, which is estimated to grow 3 percent or more to nearly $400 billion in 2019. These gains come on top of several years of even more …