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Recent Best Practice Articles by Blair Kuhnen

Getting Bang Out of Your Marketing Bucks (FloorPop - January 2007)

How to Grow Your Volume by 10% without Competing on Price (FloorPop - December 2006)

Selling lifestyle - When the structure is secondary (FloorPop - November 2006)

Self Prospecting, What You Can Do to Drive Traffic (FloorPop - October 2006)

Shopping for Results (FloorPop - September 2006)

Turn Around: Advice from America's Best Sales Trainers (FloorPop - August 2006)

Your #1 Competitor is on the Ropes (FloorPop - July 2006)

Getting Sales & Marketing On Board (FloorPop - June 2006)

Video on the Web: Generating Results (FloorPop - May 2006)

6 Homebuilder Marketing Myths (FloorPop - April 2006)

The Short Cut to Sniping Sales (FloorPop - March 2006)

Find Your Mojo: The Power of a Compelling Offer (FloorPop - February 2006)

5 Online Form Conversion Keys (FloorPop - January 2006)

Homebuilders and Blogs (FloorPop - December 2005)

Builders Getting Back to Work (FloorPop - November 2005)

4 Ways to Use the Internet to Juice Your Realtor Marketing (FloorPop - October 2005)

Kicking E-mail Marketing into High Gear (FloorPop - September 2005)

Maximize Grand Opening Sales Momentum (FloorPop - August 2005)

4 Usability Secrets to Improve Your Website Performance (FloorPop - July 2005)

Developing a Pre-Grand Opening Process (FloorPop - June 2005)

Considering Video or Virtual Reality? (FloorPop - May 2005)

A New Twist in Mapping for Homebuilders (FloorPop - April 2005)

Upgrade Your Online Selling (FloorPop - March 2005)

Upgrade Your Online Selling (pdf ~3MB) (Professional Builder's GIANTS - February 2005)

Taking Net Profits to the Extreme (pdf) (TecHOME Builder - Jan/Feb 2005)

Make Your Redesign Payoff (FloorPop - February 2005)

Making Your Web Site Part of Your Marketing System (FloorPop - January 2005)

Builder Internet Marketing Getting Savvy (FloorPop - December 2004)

Getting Personal Can Improve Traffic 200% or More (FloorPop - November 2004)

Announcement: Lux Soutions Partners Join Realty InfoLinks (FloorPop - October 2004)

Four Keys to Developing Effective Marketing Systems (FloorPop - September 2004)

Guidelines for Using the Internet to Improve Pre-Sales (FloorPop - August 2004)

Making Your "Coming Soon" Interest Lists Work (FloorPop - July 2004)

Building Your "Coming Soon" Interest Lists (FloorPop - June 2004)

Leveraging Video in Marketing "Coming Soon" Communities (FloorPop - May 2004)

Leveraging Virual Reality in Marketing "Coming Soon" Communities (FloorPop - April 2004)

Changing the Marketing of "Coming Soon" Communities (FloorPop - March 2004)

Think About All Your Website Users (FloorPop - February 2004)

Excessive Web Site Graphics Can Stunt Sales (Nation's Building News Online 2004-02-02)

Net Assets - Effective Online Sales Counselors (pdf 140k)
(TecHomeBuilder January/February 2004)

Eight Ways to Drive Internet Leads and Sales (Nation's Building News Online 2004-01-12)

Working With Online Builder Portals (FloorPop - January 2004)

Usability Testing Homebuilder Websites (FloorPop - December 2003)

The Online Sales Counselor Comes of Age (pdf 109k)
(TecHomeBuilder November/December 2003)

Benchmarking and Sharing Best Practices (FloorPop - November 2003)

Online Surveys to Improve Business Results (FloorPop - October 2003)

People in Green Cars Need Not Apply (pdf 153k) - Excessive Web site graphics can cost you sales.
(TecHomeBuilder September/October 2003)

Managing "Coming Soon" Interest Lists Online (FloorPop - September 2003)

9 Ways to Drive Internet Leads and Sales Without Even Trying Hard (FloorPop - August 2003)

The Online Sales Counselor - Is there a key to converting Internet leads into sales? (FloorPop - July 2003)

The User-Centered Web Site (pdf 127k) - Seven steps to a site that sells homes. (TecHomeBuilder July/August 2003)

Drive Leads with Permission Marketing - 8 ways to drive more leads from your current website visitor traffic (FloorPop - June 2003)

Executive design - why website design often misses the mark (FloorPop - May 2003)

On the Web, speed still kills - website download time still matters (FloorPop - April 2003)

Other Best Practice Articles

Plugging the Black hole - Do you want to tick off your customers? Then ignore their online requests for information. (TecHomeBuilder March/April 2003)

Tracking Homebuyers In The Sales Center: The Best Way To Evaluate Builder Advertising Results (AHG Home Building News - January 2003)

More Than Half Of Home Buyer Internet Inquiries Go Ignored (AHG Home Building News - December 2002)

Web Master - Want more sales from your Web site? You can learn something from Centex (Builder Magazine - November 2002).

Converting Online Leads to Increase Your Revenues
(LeadTimes from Homebuilder.com - November 2002).

Using Internet Sales Leads: A Closer Look (AHG Home Building News - September 2002)

Usability Articles from Jakob Nielsen

Paper Prototyping - April 14, 2003

Return on Investment for Usability - January 7, 2003

Top Ten Web-Design Mistakes of 2002 - December 23, 2002

Top Ten Guidelines for Homepage Usability - May 12, 2002

Did Poor Usability Kill E-Commerce? - August 19, 2001

How Users Read on the Web - October 1997

Top Ten Mistakes of Web Design - May 1996

Guerrilla HCI - 1994

Response Times: The three important limits - 1994

How to Conduct a Heuristic Evaluation - 1994


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