Fumbled: Lesson No. 1

It is unlikely that anyone one else will provide this post-election MH perspective. What did this election prove? There are many take-aways, we will focus
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Emily Goode Smorgasbord

Right about now, many are wondering who or what an Emily Goode Smorgasbord is? Well, you know that a smorgasbord is a buffet style sampling
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November Knowledge

The fury of election year politics is almost behind us and the focus in this issue is the knowledge and opportunities for growing your business.
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The ‘Tax the Rich’ Lie

One of the most common fibs told today is the Occupy Wall Street style deception of "tax the rich." First, we can't close the budget
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Surprising Legacy

After former Senator and one time presidential candidate George McGovern left office, he entered the private sector in 1993 by starting a small bed-and-breakfast. He
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Giving and Getting

Zig Ziglar famously observed: "You can get everything out of life that you want, if you help enough other people get out of life what
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Events and Promises

One of the real pleasures and benefits available to pros in our industry is going to meetings and events. Dating back to the 1980s, I've
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That’s Debatable!

If you had a chance to 'vote' for the healthy return of our industry, would you do it? For 13 years after our industry's most
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Course Correction

One of the most successful leaders in our industry expressed grave concern Tuesday in San Antonio for our country if Barack Obama retains the White
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Brick by Brick

How do you build? Back in the days before factory-built HUDs and MODs, wasn't one way brick by brick? Well that is the way that
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October 2012 by the Numbers

This month, regular readers already know that MHProNews.com is celebrating the start of Year 4 of our industry leading online trade journal for manufactured and
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MHI and MHARR my day?

October will be a busy month for most of us. Fall meetings – such as the upcoming MHI annual meeting – all the business pros
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Yom Kippur

As I'm writing this, it is the Jewish feast of Yom Kippur. In 2012, Yom Kippur began on the evening of Tuesday, September 25 and
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Manufactured Housing and the Fiscal Cliff

Financing is the life blood of any big ticket item industry. Ours is no exception. We hear about the fiscal cliff that faces our nation
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Microtargeting

Wikipedia defines microtargeting as follows: "Microtargeting is the use by political parties and election campaigns of direct marketing data mining techniques that involve predictive market
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Driving Innovation for Companies and the Manufactured Housing Industry

Like you, I'm a reader. There are a wide array of resources I get daily, in and out of our industry: tech, sales, business, political,
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Beguiled

The first time a lady listens to a man's 'sales pitch' at a bar, she may be beguiled. But after four years of hearing that
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Provoking Thought

Thought proceeds action. So provoking thought can proceed provoking action. We are a year into a manufactured housing sales upturn, that's welcome news. But what
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Voter Fraud?

As a former student of the University of Oklahoma, I can tell you about the year that Arkansas University kicked our cans in football before
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Number 36 and happy Labor Day

In this issue we have the exclusive "Cup of Coffee" interview with Democratic Senate candidate, Congressman Joe Donnelly, who co-sponsored the bi-partisan HR 3849. You
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Coming of Age, S&S

There is a synergy that can – and does increasingly – exist between business professionals, associations and your industry's trade media. That was manifest in
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Backwards or Forward

We often hear the term 'status quo,' but in fact on almost any topic you can imagine, there is movement either backward or forward. The
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Looking back

The rear view mirror isn't our focus when we drive. But danger may lurk from behind when driving, so we ignore the rear view mirror
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Executive Decision

You just have to love movie titles. Most are short, pithy and just hit you with a Sudden Impact Sounds pretty Clint Eastwoodish, doesn't it?
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Hungry Retailers

Please repeat after me. Boulevard locations, developers and most land lease communities are or ought to be Manufactured Home Retailers. Retailers today come in all
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Hungry Communities

There is a hunger for information among many manufactured home community owner/operators (CO/Os). In numerous states, land lease communities make up the majority of their
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Rotten Seed

Some eight centuries ago, a keen thinker observed to his associates that hoarded seed rots.  That was a pithy way of saying, get to work,
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“What Light…”

William Shakespeare dramatically asked, "What light through yonder window breaks?" Have you been looking for the light at the end of the proverbial tunnel? Or
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Pulling Together

I understand the theory behind the book entitled, It Takes a Village (to raise a child). Without parsing or endorsing the volume or its author,
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Radical

The original Latin meaning of the word we use in English – Radical – meant to get to the root of an issue. We are
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From the Mail Bag

The calls, texts and emails that come in privately far outnumber those posted publicly on MHProNews.com. The following are a sampling of recent posted comments.
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Industry Voices

Summer time seems to be heating up on the Industry Voices guest blog. The latest one is from Ronnie Richards, the Chairman of the Board
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Get More MH Chattel Financing

Will you raise you pen to paper, fax or send off a quick email to improve access to manufactured housing personal property (home only/chattel) financing?
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Failure to Report

I confess there are times that we at MHProNews.com have failed to report on a topic. An example might be my sitting in a room
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Everything takes time – What’s Up and Coming

We will cover what's up and coming below, but let's start with the notion that everything takes time. How long does it take to make
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Advancing Better Together

Multiple topics today, let's start with manufactured home financing, and move on from there. Financing An association executive thoughtfully updated me on the percentage of
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Each One, Reach One

We are well into campaign season and I believe our professional lives are ideally not compartments but part of a whole range of who we
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Just-ice in time for the July 4th

July is jumping at manufactured home communities and sales centers in many parts of the country. Some factories are reporting production orders a few weeks
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Protecting yourself, promoting yourself

When you promote the value and durability of our product, you are protecting and promoting yourself and our manufactured and modular home industry. Let's start
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Fear Mongering and Fearful Motivation

I was talking today with a respected industry leader. Part of the discussion was about fear mongering. There are voices in our great Industry that
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