Business and profit building education has always been one of the many benefits of membership in state and national associations. When we say that an association exists to protect and promote the industry, that's true. One of the ways those goals are accomplished is precisely through educational workshops, seminars, symposiums and events tailored for manufactured …
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The Louisville Manufactured Housing Show for 2012 is now in the history books. Hats off to Dennis Hill and the Show Ways team, Show Chairman Ron Thomas Sr., the Midwest Manufactured Housing Federation (MMHF) executive directors, our speakers, panelists and each company that helped make this show a success. An exhibitor I spoke with summed …
Manufactured Home Community Operators! Manufactured Housing Retailers! Manufactured and Modular Builder/Developers! If there is only 1 event you can attend in 2012, make that one the Louisville Manufactured Housing Show. Why? It will provide you with THE Tools and Methods that will yield MORE home $ale$ in 2012. Learn more and read all about …
Happy Thanksgiving from: Joe – Matthew – Jeff Soheyla – Tony Before you break for all the joys and feasting with family and friends, let us thank you for coming faithfully to our web-pages. You've made us #1. We also want to thank our feature writers and sponsors who make all of this possible: …
Seven topics this week, one that is pure fun, others more serious, so let’s dive right in. 1. Manufactured Housing: Endangered Species or Phoenix Rising? If you listen to the likes of consultant Chuck Shinn or academic Dr. David Funk, you would think Manufactured Housing is poised for a potentially bright future. In fact, as …
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Three Manufactured Housing News topics today: 1. Post MHI DC meeting comments 2. Reality Check/Getting Mad, and 3. Business Building in the Spring of 2011 So let’s jump in and get started. 1. Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) Winter Meeting and Legislative session Duties here in Chicagoland kept me from attending the Manufactured Housing Institute’s (MHI) …
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Snow at various airports and roadways did not keep 970 attendees from coming to the Louisville Manufactured Housing Show this past Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. In fact, at least two more people reportedly arrived after the registration booth had closed Friday, there specifically to see homes. Reports indicated that factories wrote orders; exhibitors and attendees …
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Today is the last day of the Louisville Manufactured Housing Show. Watch this video and come on out – or you’ll have to wait until next year. [flv:/blogs/tonykovach/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/IMG_2078.flv 563 320] MHMSM.com’s Publisher, Marketing Director and Industry Consultant L.A. ‘Tony’ Kovach and Louisville Manufactured Housing Show Coordinator Dennis Hill Louisville Manufactured Housing Show attendees visit a …
I was reading something George Allen penned recently, and it referred to a saying we all know well: If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. Then, I read an item that Don Westphal sent me. It was an article by Lawrence W. Reed, entitled Ideas and Consequences: Businessmen …
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Holiday Reflections for Manufactured Housing Professionals
Thanksgiving. Christmas. New Year’s. These are times that we gather with friends, family and associates. We celebrate, party and feast! We eat (and sometimes drink ;-) too much! To those distant, we send warm greetings by phone, mail, text, via Facebook, Twitter or email. FedEx and UPS certainly celebrate all the packages that reflect the love and caring that this season brings. These are for most of us bright, grand days during the seasonal darkness where we Americans live.
