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title: Latest News For Residential Builders | The Association of Professional Builders  (31)
description: All the latest news covering sales, marketing, operations, financials and self-improvement within the residential construction industry. (31)
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# Latest Articles

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<https://blog.associationofprofessionalbuilders.com/builders-qualifying-process>

[Sales](https://blog.associationofprofessionalbuilders.com/tag/sales)  3 min read

## [How To Qualify Your Leads So You Can Identify The Best Opportunities](https://blog.associationofprofessionalbuilders.com/builders-qualifying-process)

 Are you wasting your evenings and weekends pricing jobs for free that never progress into a contract?

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<https://blog.associationofprofessionalbuilders.com/builders-millionaire-mindset>

[Self Improvement](https://blog.associationofprofessionalbuilders.com/tag/self-improvement)  3 min read

## [How Builders Create A Millionaire Mindset](https://blog.associationofprofessionalbuilders.com/builders-millionaire-mindset)

 Do you know another custom home builder that is more successful than you, even though they don’t work as hard as you do?

[Read More](https://blog.associationofprofessionalbuilders.com/builders-millionaire-mindset)

<https://blog.associationofprofessionalbuilders.com/growing-building-company-outsourcing>

[Operations](https://blog.associationofprofessionalbuilders.com/tag/operations)  3 min read

## [How To Grow Your Building Company By Outsourcing](https://blog.associationofprofessionalbuilders.com/growing-building-company-outsourcing)

 Are you drowning in admin tasks because you don’t have enough staff?

[Read More](https://blog.associationofprofessionalbuilders.com/growing-building-company-outsourcing)

<https://blog.associationofprofessionalbuilders.com/how-builders-generate-referrals>

[Marketing](https://blog.associationofprofessionalbuilders.com/tag/marketing)  2 min read

## [How Builders Can Generate More Client Referrals](https://blog.associationofprofessionalbuilders.com/how-builders-generate-referrals)

 Are you finding referrals harder and harder to come by these days?

[Read More](https://blog.associationofprofessionalbuilders.com/how-builders-generate-referrals)

<https://blog.associationofprofessionalbuilders.com/managing-client-expectations>

[Sales](https://blog.associationofprofessionalbuilders.com/tag/sales)  3 min read

## [How To Exceed Your Clients’ Expectations On Every Job](https://blog.associationofprofessionalbuilders.com/managing-client-expectations)

 Have you ever got to the end of a project and thought, “Thank god I don’t have to deal with these people anymore?”

[Read More](https://blog.associationofprofessionalbuilders.com/managing-client-expectations)

<https://blog.associationofprofessionalbuilders.com/builders-project-reporting>

[Financials](https://blog.associationofprofessionalbuilders.com/tag/financials)  2 min read

## [How To Boost Your Profit On Every Contract You Sign](https://blog.associationofprofessionalbuilders.com/builders-project-reporting)

 How gutting is it when you get to the end of a big project that you’ve spent months working on, only to realise you’ve not made any net profit on the job?

[Read More](https://blog.associationofprofessionalbuilders.com/builders-project-reporting)

<https://blog.associationofprofessionalbuilders.com/builders-sales-blueprint>

[Sales](https://blog.associationofprofessionalbuilders.com/tag/sales)  3 min read

## [How To Win More Home Building Contracts At Higher Margins](https://blog.associationofprofessionalbuilders.com/builders-sales-blueprint)

 How many times have you spent weeks or even months working with a potential client to give them exactly what they wanted...but not win the job?

[Read More](https://blog.associationofprofessionalbuilders.com/builders-sales-blueprint)

<https://blog.associationofprofessionalbuilders.com/setting-construction-slots>

[Operations](https://blog.associationofprofessionalbuilders.com/tag/operations)  2 min read

## [How To Use Construction Slots To Balance Your Workflow](https://blog.associationofprofessionalbuilders.com/setting-construction-slots)

 How stressful does your life become when you have multiple handovers happening at the same time?

[Read More](https://blog.associationofprofessionalbuilders.com/setting-construction-slots)

<https://blog.associationofprofessionalbuilders.com/new-home-builders-handover-checklist>

[Sales](https://blog.associationofprofessionalbuilders.com/tag/sales)  2 min read

## [9 Steps To Execute The Perfect Handover](https://blog.associationofprofessionalbuilders.com/new-home-builders-handover-checklist)

 How disappointing is it when you hand over a beautiful home... and yet the client NEVER tells their friends and family about you?

[Read More](https://blog.associationofprofessionalbuilders.com/new-home-builders-handover-checklist)

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