John McManus

John McManus

President and Founder

John McManus, founder and president of The Builder’s Daily, is an award-winning editorial, programming, and digital content strategist. TBD's purpose is a community capable of constant improvement.

Value-Adds For New Home Tech: Loss Reduction, Lower Premium, Peace Of Mind

Leadership

Value-Adds For New Home Tech: Loss Reduction, Lower Premium, Peace Of Mind

New homes tend now to include as a non-negotiable standard a smart-home suite of services. Fact is, as they evolve, those smart home devices have emerged as more than “nice-to-have” convenience solutions.

Together with

Westwood Insurance Agency

Discretionary Buyers — AKA Baby Boomers — Reclaim Focus

Marketing & Sales

Discretionary Buyers — AKA Baby Boomers — Reclaim Focus

Both "younger" and "older" Baby Boom buyers in the market tend to be classic discretionary purchasers, versus adult "rental refugee" households looking to cross the Rubicon to homeownership, or ones compelled to seek larger living space due to expanding family formation.

Trailblazers '23: Higharc Teams Up With Giants To Power Build-Cycle

Technology

Trailblazers '23: Higharc Teams Up With Giants To Power Build-Cycle

"This enables agility to flow down that value chain, ultimately to where builders can engage consumers with things like a 3D, automotive-style configurator experience," Higharc ceo Marc Minor says. "The market needs more of that now."

Today's  Edge Goes To Builder Players With Time On Their Side

Architecture

Today's Edge Goes To Builder Players With Time On Their Side

Despite our confidence in what we know and how certain we are of our predictions coming true, it's always uncannily the case that "time discovers truth."

How Better-Than-Expected Results Became A New Win

Leadership

How Better-Than-Expected Results Became A New Win

Outperforming expectations now qualify as chest-pumping, back-flips-worthy triumphs. Compared-with-expectations measures – particularly on the price concessions and cancellations calculus that reveals net pace – amount to an accomplishment: Less-bad is the new good.

Value-Adds For New Home Tech: Loss Reduction, Lower Premium, Peace Of Mind

Leadership

Value-Adds For New Home Tech: Loss Reduction, Lower Premium, Peace Of Mind

New homes tend now to include as a non-negotiable standard a smart-home suite of services. Fact is, as they evolve, those smart home devices have emerged as more than “nice-to-have” convenience solutions.

Together with

Westwood Insurance Agency

Discretionary Buyers — AKA Baby Boomers — Reclaim Focus

Marketing & Sales

Discretionary Buyers — AKA Baby Boomers — Reclaim Focus

Both "younger" and "older" Baby Boom buyers in the market tend to be classic discretionary purchasers, versus adult "rental refugee" households looking to cross the Rubicon to homeownership, or ones compelled to seek larger living space due to expanding family formation.

Trailblazers '23: Higharc Teams Up With Giants To Power Build-Cycle

Technology

Trailblazers '23: Higharc Teams Up With Giants To Power Build-Cycle

"This enables agility to flow down that value chain, ultimately to where builders can engage consumers with things like a 3D, automotive-style configurator experience," Higharc ceo Marc Minor says. "The market needs more of that now."

Today's  Edge Goes To Builder Players With Time On Their Side

Architecture

Today's Edge Goes To Builder Players With Time On Their Side

Despite our confidence in what we know and how certain we are of our predictions coming true, it's always uncannily the case that "time discovers truth."

How Better-Than-Expected Results Became A New Win

Leadership

How Better-Than-Expected Results Became A New Win

Outperforming expectations now qualify as chest-pumping, back-flips-worthy triumphs. Compared-with-expectations measures – particularly on the price concessions and cancellations calculus that reveals net pace – amount to an accomplishment: Less-bad is the new good.