Marketing & Sales
How Homebuilders Can Fix Broken Buyer Conversion Now
New Home Star’s Chris Laskowski breaks down what’s stalling new home conversions in today’s market—and what to do about it. From weak webpages to ignored AI search, he lays out a builder’s to-do list for turning traffic into buyers.
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Signal Vs Noise: As Fed Shifts, Double-Down On People Care
Amid a rocky patch of higher cost inflation and likely interest rate increases, focus on customers -- and the new map of their motivations -- will set sharp competitive boundaries.
Marketing & Sales
Century's 'Buy-Now' Ground-Breaker Shifts The CX Goal Line
Here Century Communities president Liesel Cooper unpacks the strategic, operational, and consumer-focus reasons for cutting over to its click-to-buy contract platform. And, she affirms the "integral ongoing role" of sales associates in the new normal.
Marketing & Sales
As Bastion Of Future Demand, Demographics' Heyday Is Over
We're seeing the beginning of the end of demographics and generational cohorts as tools to measure market size and demand drivers. Here's the X factor we see as a bulwark of business strategy for the decade ahead.
Marketing & Sales
Hidden In Plain Sight, The Baby Boom May Be The Next Big Thing
Homebuilders, developers, and investors fixate on younger adult buyers and their path into new homeownership. Meanwhile, a still untapped -- and unconventional -- market lies ahead in a longer 55-plus runway.
Marketing & Sales
What To Watch: How To Model For An Either-Way Year Ahead
How might we pick up telltales that better help us predict what's ahead? Looking back at "trends that have been stopped in their tracks" may offer clues.