The United States homeownership rate has recently seen a rebound to 65.1% in the fourth quarter of 2019 from a low of 62.9% in the second quarter of 2016.
Builder confidence in the market for newly-built single-family homes edged one point lower to 74 in February, according to the latest National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI).
The sales world has exhausted an incompatible amount of effort tutoring salespeople on how to get sales and new clients; however, extremely little is ever said about being focused on continuing these relationships.
As competition gets sharper and as big box stores become more aggressive, independents need to explore every possible facet of their businesses for ways of achieving advantage in order to help them compete at least as effectively and as profitably as their competition.
Two years ago, ICC Home in Indianapolis was experiencing a challenge common among independent specialty retailers: high employee turnover, particularly in the sales department.