Industry Voices
- Hearing Explores Government Role in Multifamily and Health Care Facilities
- Manufactured Housing industry businesses along Shields Boulevard in Oklahoma City are still here and intact, as is MH Association of Oklahoma
- Only In America
- Definition of a Manufactured Home
- How About a Cup of Coffee?
- Manufactured Housing Institute CEO Richard Jennison's letter to Princeton's WordNet requesting Definition Correction
- Lisa Tyler - at Walden University – Request for Correction Addressed to Princeton's WordNet
- Georgia Manufactured Housing Association's Executive Director Sounds off on Princeton WordNet's “Definition” of Manufactured Homes
- Another letter to Princeton's WordNet Team about their Flawed Definition of a “Manufactured Home“
- Irresponsible Weather reporting by Media and National Weather Service
Words of Wisdom
- Stress is a performance - killer
- The Ripple Effect
- Tomorrow is Yesterday Before You Know it.
- Struggling with anything today?
- Is your communication grounded in honesty – no matter what?
- Goals, Dreams or just Wishing?
- Sorry, but the world doesn't revolve around you!
- Is It A Miracle or . . .
- Selling and the four agreements
- The Seasons of Life
Newsletter Archive
- Moore's Tornado. SSK's Sales Rock. Clayton's Duck Call. Immigration Reform Boosts Sales? NY MODs. Marcus Promotes 2. Friends+Family. Israeli MODs. More! 5/23/2013
- C-Suite Sees Suite. UMH A Buy. Zell: stocks will fall. Cordray: QM exception? Starts drop, permits rise. State Farm...MODs. Tribe & FHA boosts loans for HUDs, MODs. More! 5/20/2013
- Frustration and Gratitude. HUD Seeks new MH Contractor. Bahama MODs? SW Draws MH. Hensarling Fundraiser. UFPI Rises. Easy on FHA. Lower MHs for Seniors? More! 5/16/2013
- MH Gossip. Zell on MF. UMH Revenues Nearly Double! Moody's: Housing Takes Off! Nobility Rises. Korean MODs. Princeton's WordNet Redux. Scent of a Woman. More! 5/13/2013
- Red Hot May! Company banned. Green Courte Promotes Rudolf. Oak Creek Opens New MHR. ROC assumes management. Corp MODs ND. In SM era, are websites needed? More! 5/9/2013
- HR 1779 & MH. New March MHShipments. Warren on Women. MODs for Reservation? FED QE3 slows bond buys? Watt for FHFA. Thai MODs. More! 5/6/2013
- MH Mortgages Perform Well! Exclusive Mike Evans/Centennial Homes Interview! Mayflower. Lonnie Scruggs - RIP. What about Vegas? Self Evident Truths. More! 5/2/2013
- Reforming Dodd-Frank! FL MH Ins Crisis? ELS CEO Cuts Deal! Nobility Highlights. Legislator Honored. Solar MODs. Keep MID. SUN 1 Qtr. More! Phoenix Like! More! 4/29/2013
- African Coast. MH Dodd-Frank reform. SUN in NY. Jeb nixes Cordray. 474 MODs. Free MH Resources. New MH Community. New MOD plant for ND. UFPI pays, More! 4/25/2013
- Enlightened Self Interest. National Awards to MH Pros. DP Assist Bill. Death under MOD. Slavery! Rural Housing Finance Reform? MHC Tax Reform? UFPI's Best. More! 4/21/2013
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October 2011 Vol. 3 No. 1
CHECK OUT THE GREAT OCTOBER FEATURE ARTICLES!
Nineteen top pros have contributed Feature Articles for you this month. Here are the October articles according to Subject Category, listed alphabetically. Be informed, inspired and encouraged for optimum success!
Featured Articles and Reports for Vol. 3, No. 1, 2011
Alphabetically by Category
COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT & FAIR HOUSING (LEGAL)
Nadeen Green
• Fair Housing – It’s for the Birds - part 2
Chrissy Jackson
• Content area of Guidelines for Living – From Health Codes to Insurance
A CUP of COFFEE with…
A Cup of Coffee with…
• A Cup of Coffee with…Chad Carr
GENERAL MANUFACTURED HOUSING INDUSTRY TOPICS
L. A. ‘Tony’ Kovach
• 2011 Louisville Manufactured Home Show Draws Praise as MH Pros look ahead to the 2012
L A 'Tony' Kovach
• (un)Common Sense: How the Manufactured Housing Industry's Long Awaited Turn Around effort can Get Done
Stephen Lefler
• Why build an Energy Efficient Manufactured home?
MARKETING
Beth Monicatti Blank
• Social media jargon
MANAGEMENT
Chad Carr
• Building Your Future by Building Relationships - Part Two: Stop “Waiting On” Customers
Tim Connor, CSP
• Is it ‘who’ or ‘what ’in your Manufactured Housing organization?
George Porter
• Boardroom Manufactured Housing Installation
Vicki Gibbons
• This month fourteen new residents moved into our park
PERSONAL REFLECTIONS, MOTIVATION and INSPIRATION
Tim Connor, CSP
• Have you ever wondered?
Tim Connor, CSP
• Having it, Wanting it.
Vicki Gibbons
• Unemployed – Then – An Answer to Prayer
Zig Ziglar
• ZigOn Politicians
SALES
Tim Connor
• So – What’s your excuse?
Mark Hunter
• Using Social Media in Manufactured Housing as a Negotiating Tool
Mark Hunter
• What did you learn from the last sale you lost?
Mike Moore
• The Sales Journey
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Have you ever been confused by what you're reading on social media? With so many companies today using the Internet and social media platforms to promote or advertise their business, understanding the social media jargon is key to success in this technological medium.
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Have you ever wondered how your life might have turned out differently had you made different choices or decisions along the way? If you had made different career decisions or relationships ones? If you had developed a different life philosophy or attitudes as the years passed? Over time you learned to define adversity, failure or success differently?
This month fourteen new residents moved into our manufactured home land-lease community. Located just south of Cleveland, Ohio, I manage the largest 55 + "mobile home park" in the state. Over the past ten year's residency has declined due to the effects of the economy and the death of residents.
"Whooo-is there?" says the Owl. Oh, good, it is you, dear reader, coming back to read Part 2 of 
Social media has blown on to the scene the last couple of years with the popular websites of Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, Google + and many others. Nobody can tell for sure what social media will look like five years from now, but what everyone can agree upon is that the concept of using the internet to socially communicate is not going away.
Manufactured Home Community (MHC) operations. The importance of a good set of Guidelines for Living can't be under-estimated for a smooth running land lease community. This is a continuation on this series about the Content portion of the Guidelines for Living, for the previous article, please click here.
Last year when Dennis Hill and I first spoke about the return of the fabled indoor Louisville Manufactured Home Show in 2011, one of the many things that struck me was Dennis and the Showway's team practical, no-nosense approach. Dennis knew the challenges. "Tony, first we have to crawl, then we walk, then can we run. This is our year to crawl." The goal was to attract perhaps 850 or so retailers, community operators and dealer developers to this come back show.
The most important thing you control in a sales engagement is your mindset, not the buyer or conversation. You may be selling to retail customers or perhaps your focus is business to business in manufactured housing. Regardless, there are some basics that remain the same.
You know what a boardroom is don't you? It's the room where all the heads of big companies meet and plan their future. These are the movers and shakers of the industry, the VIP's, CEO's, COO's and generally the board of the corporation. These are the folks that are about as far away from the installation of a manufactured home – the crawling in the mud and stacking concrete blocks - as you can get. To be fair about it, some of them, especially the original owners and founders of the companies and their offspring may have done it but most board members these days have not, and of course they don't need to. Their time is much better spent thinking of the big picture, the stockholders and the next quarterly earnings, that kind of thing.
A "politician" has been described as a genius who can open the door of your car with one hand, help you in with the other, and still have one hand left to pat you on the back and ask for your vote. Yes, as the saying goes, at one time in America we told political jokes and now we elect them.
