On Tuesday, October 7, 2008, Constellation CRM is pleased to invite you and your staff to our one-day Regional User Conference at the Hilton Suites in Anaheim, CA.
The agenda is the following:
Thanks to everyone that attended our session on Coping with Financial Distress. If you were unable to attend, you can view the recording at the link below.
Online Archive - Coping with Financial Distress
As a key partner with many home builders, Constellation is please to provide over 1,400 builders with one or more homebuilding software solutions.
We appreciate the assistance of the NAHB Builder Management and Information Technology Committee and the contributions of each panelist.
Financial Services - Moderator - Ron Robichaud
Robichaud Financial Services
LACONIA, NH
(603)293-2332
ron@robichaudfinancial.com
Banker - Panelist - Tom Flowers
Leawood, KS
(816) 522-1034
tflowers392@yahoo.com
Restructuring - Panelist - Troy Taylor
Algon Group
Atlanta, GA
(404) 423-8086
troy@algongroup.com
Builder - Panelist - Randy Noel
Reve Inc.
LaPlace, LA
(985) 652-4663
REVEDEV@aol.com
Lawyer - Panelist - Harley Riedel
Stichter, Riedel, Blain & Prosser, P.A.
Tampa, Florida
(813) 229-0144
hriedel@srbp.com
Mark Jarasek from Professional Builder interviews Craig Schweikart on the floor at PCBC.
Craig gives a great overview of Constellation’s products and provides some advice to help builders get a handle on their information mangement systems. With a strong focus on cost management and cash flow, builders need to ensure that their home building software production and accounting systems are providing the information they need to run their businesses.
Constellation Online Virtual Showroom is a web-based lead generation tool that helps educate your website visitors with interactive images of your homes.
Your potential homebuyers can see how your models and rooms look with different colors and finishes.
For more information and a demo, visit the Constellation Virtual Online Showroom.
Here is my favourite picture. What does your home look like?
When: August 21, 2008 @ 1PM Eastern
Where: Online via WebEx (Register Now)
Home builders, vendors and trade contractors are experiencing a severe market downturn. Bankruptcy is the only option for some, while others have closed their doors. As the economy struggles, the companies that survive must take a proactive stance to address the problems they are certain to encounter in a cash crisis, with impaired assets and a credit crunch. The first step is to seek education about their options. To help, Constellation HomeBuilder Systems is offering a program to begin that education process with a 90 minute online conference hosted by a panel of experts including a veteran builder, an experienced bankruptcy attorney, a restructuring specialist and a banker.
This event is supported by NAHB’s Business Management & Information Technology Committee
Learn how to:
- cope and survive
- communicate and work with bankers
- deal with bankruptcy
- survive financial restructuring
- protect your assets
In this 90 minute session, panelists will provide prescriptive recommendations to minimize confusion and cope with the current state of our industry. A question and answer session will follow.
While attending a session entitled Creating and Maintaining Company Value presented by Ron Robichaud at the 2008 Pacific Coast Builder Conference in San Francisco he says Information management systems are the second most important components in operational excellence.
“The second most important tool to achieve and maintain operations excellence is information. Now there are a number of providers who are actually successfully electronically integrating the full complement of sales and marketing, operations, production, service and financial functions into a seamless flow of live information readily accessible and useable to all parties as well as customer friendly. Every builder is painfully aware of the costs generated by inaccurate plans, incomplete budgets, poor schedules, information slipping between the cracks, poor communication within the organization as well as with vendors, trades, and homebuyers. All of the above is a function of information management. The role of effective information processing, distribution and flow in creating and maintaining a well run company cannot be over-emphasized. A consistently superior financial performance is not usually the result of some single secret formula or weapon, but rather the result of doing many things right, and the single most important way to do that is by managing information.”
Ron Robichaud
2008 PCBC
San Francisco
Just to remind everyone, Constellation HomeBuilder Systems will be exhibiting at PCBC next week in San Francisco. Here are the details.
Pacific Coast Builders Conference
http://www.pcbc.com/default.aspx
June 25-27, 2008
Moscone Center
San Francisco, CA
#7535
HomeTech Connect
North Hall
If you have any questions about our Home Building Software products, please don’t hesitate to stop by the booth or give us a call.