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How Does A Small Custom Builder Compete In An Area Full Of Volume Builders?

Toby and Elizabeth Searle run Highwater Homes in Camden, an hour west of Sydney, in an area called the Macarthur. In their APB case study, they describe ...
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Should A Builder Pay Clients For Referrals?

Say you build custom homes that start in the millions, and you decide this is the year you get serious about referrals. So you write to every past client ...
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APB Digest: Give AI Access Without Losing Control

Welcome to the APB Digest. This fortnight we look at how to give AI access to your business without losing control of it, and what sets the value of a ...
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Why Documented Procedures Stop Getting Used After Three Months

There's a folder on your computer called Company Procedures. You built it over several weekends. You wrote the steps out carefully, you ran a training ...
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How Do You Give AI Access To Your Business Without Losing Control Of It?

Security is the number one thing stopping builders from going further with AI. When we asked the builders in APB's Elite Mentoring cohort what was holding ...
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APB Digest: Cut Through The AI Noise

Welcome to the APB Digest. This fortnight APB is live with Buildertrend on where AI is actually worth pointing inside a building company, Sky is running a ...
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Why You Keep Setting The Same Goal And Never Getting There

You set that goal again this year. Roughly the same one as last time. Build a company that runs without you standing in the middle of it, so you stop ...
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Find Out Where Your Building Company Is Losing Money

Welcome to the APB Digest! This fortnight you can get a custom analysis of your building company, scored across 11 areas with a market valuation included. ...
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What Is A Residential Building Company Actually Worth?

Most builders find out what their company is worth at the worst possible moment.
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