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@BloggingPainter :: Do We Really Know What Service Looks Like?
2January 26, 2012
. . . But I think I was wrong, sure, it was a franchise, but the systems they had in place could be adapted to any service model.
So how can we can make our service experience look like this to our customers? [...]
What’s Great About Remodeling :: Paul Hamtil
8July 14, 2011
I say that I ended up a remodeler by accident. But this is only half-true. It was not intentional, but . . . probably intended. My brother and I, like so many other Friends-in-Moxie, started as builders at an old junker, 8’-folding table -- we dubbed it, “Lego City”. There, we spent countless hours creating everything we could dream up. We were seriously addicted, which was scary, but nonetheless it was a catalyst of passion for building things. Later, we moved on to building forts in the woods near our house as well as to cardboard cities in the big abandoned garden in our yard. As sons of a civil engineer, turned remodeler, a little bit of my father's skills must have rubbed off on us. And that could explain why we were the go-to kids for all the neighborhood build projects. [ . . . ]
Home Improvement Contractors License (Maryland) :: Building Moxie Takes a Test and … Passes
23May 12, 2011
by jb at Building Moxie
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I have known that licensing varies state to state, but I decided to ask around, and few friends of our Facebook page (go ahead like it) responded with what was required in their states. What I found basically -- the regulations under which home improvements can be performed legally vary widely (like the grand canyon) from state to state, with some variations rolling down even to the municipality level. Here's what I got: [ . . . ]
