Once you’ve begun to explore options to add to your sheds, it’s easy to travel down the road of adding other types of inventory to your sales lot. Many shed dealers expand to carry products that might range from playhouses and playsets to horse barns and carports to pergolas and[Read More…]
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Online Size Selector Benefits Selling
When customers come to your lot or website, they’re looking to meet a need, whether it’s storage or another important purpose. Today, the reasons for consumers’ interest in sheds can be as wide as the horizon. They might want to improve the look and feel of their living space,[Read More…]
Lumber Prices Trend Lower
In spite of a drop in durable goods orders in May, factory demand has strengthened this year. Durable goods orders for the first five months this year has increased 2.8 percent. Why does this matter? Factory orders or business investment in new equipment indicates that the economy is growing. This[Read More…]
Custom Building Company Launches Visual Product Configurator
Texwin Inc., a Texas-based custom building company has affiliated with the IdeaRoom and will launch an online visual product configurator in August. Texwin decided to invest in the online configurator to address challenges related to continued growth during the past decade and significant growth in the past five years. Since[Read More…]
Exploring the World of Cabins and Cottages
At a time when sheds are being seen as the new multi-purpose “room,” being retrofitted as offices and outside retreats, it’s tougher to pinpoint what sets these small structures apart from their classic cousins, cabins and cottages. But the builders who offer a wide range of outdoor products that include[Read More…]
Defining Success
We refer to shed companies as big or small, and usually we are referring to superficial levels of size: How big is their manufacturing facility? How many employees do they have? How many units do they produce each year? But I don’t think big should be the primary aim. Instead,[Read More…]
Positive Power
I remember when I was a kid, my dad would say to me, “If you hang around turkeys, you can’t fly with the eagles.” Despite my dad’s advice, I would occasionally hang around known trouble makers and, shockingly, end up in trouble. The advice my dad shared with me early[Read More…]
New Website Continues Virginia Shed Builder’s Legacy
When JZ Utility Barns (now Yoder’s Quality Buildings) was founded by Jonathan Zook in 2001, little did the family know what all would soon transpire. For the first few years, the Utility Shed Company based in Rural Retreat, Virginia, made slow growth as father and sons worked hard to get their new[Read More…]
Florida Portable Building Company Opens New Location
Keen’s Portable Buildings LLC in Florida opened a new location in April, the company reports. The new spot, the company’s fifth, is in Brooksville/Massaryktown, Florida. “When it comes to Keen’s Portable Buildings our first goal is always to provide the best customer service and get our products to customers in[Read More…]
Customer Experience is the Key to Success
Small business owners often feel overwhelmed by marketing because there are so many things to pay attention to. It’s hard to know what to prioritize. Not only are there hundreds of potential ways to spend money, there are always new and exciting tools being introduced that you feel you need[Read More…]
