K-Designers: a Builder from the Heartland

I wish we had a company like K-Designers here in South Africa. It would make it a lot easier to do renovations. As it stands, you don't know whether you are getting a cowboy who will cut corners or a reputable builder. Now, we know a reputable builder, my wife's cousin, but he is fairly pricey and besides, he's booked up until at least next year.

But perhaps K-Designers doesn't need to come to Cape Town. Perhaps we can go to them. Housing prices in California, one of the many states in which they are based, have fallen through the floor and hit the basement, so perhaps even we could afford a small domicile there. My wife wouldn't mind living a bit north of Sacramento, though she prefers coastal areas, and is quite fond of Mendicino and Humboldt Counties.

Of course, I know by now that K-Designers originated in Wyoming, which neighbors my home state, Nebraska, where my sister and youngest brother still live. So yes, I have an affinity towards this company that began on the Western plains.

K-Designers: The Best Remodeling Company... Ever

Having worked for a construction company last year, marketing their services, I know a little about the business. So when I came across this article online about K-Designers, I knew exactly what they meant. The fact that a construction company will do the work first without a down payment is indeed something of which to take note. Most construction companies don't do that. Happiness is key to customer satisfaction, and one of my pet peeves is companies, regardless of their industry, that fail in this respect.

Frankly, it is unlikely that a company that has not taken any money off of you will do a bad job. They want to get paid, and if a company like K-Designers were to fall short, it seems as if they are honorable enough to make sure it gets made right. The more I think about it, the more I wish I had happened across K-Designers rather than the company I worked for last year. The company for which I worked last year still owes me money... and I'd bet that K-Designers would have been able to pay me...

Marketing Construction

My wife told me, more than once, that the only state in the U.S.A. in which she will live is California. I came across an advertisement on HotJobs.com today by a company in California called K-Designers, listing a number of positions throughout the United States, many of them in California, where they are based. It seems from the ads that they are especially in need of people with marketing and sales backgrounds.

Hmmm.... this sounds intriguing. K-Designers is one of the top five remodeling companies in the United States, having been in existence since 1978, and growing rapidly. It's a difficult time in the construction industry, but it looks like they have found a niche. People aren't buying new homes so much these days with the credit crunch, but those who can afford to are renovating the homes in which they already live.

I helped market a small construction company in Hollywood, Minnesota, in 2008 and know how difficult construction firms of all sizes are finding the current economic climate. Through my marketing efforts, I brought in over two thirds of the business that year and in so doing helped the owner save his company, utilizing innovative techniques I'd learned from my years in telephone sales and market research, along with my own creativity. It seems as if K-Designers is using many of the same tools I did.

I've also seen how customer service can make or break a business. The key to any successful business and the key to its survival in these dire economic times is just that, attention to the customer. This is something that K-Designers hqs a handle on, and I'm wondering if perhaps this should be my next career move.