by Christopher Liechty | Jun 10, 2015 | Home Improvement
Having been open for nearly three years, Home Improvement Lending has established some relationships with notable contractors. Frankly, as a new name in home improvement lending, we probably wouldn’t have made a dent in the market if the economy weren’t in...
by Christopher Liechty | May 5, 2015 | General Topics
You may recognize the title to this post as part of a famous quote popularized by Mark Twain. There are two key words missing from the quote, but this is a family friendly blog, so…. Let’s establish up front that I’m a big fan of marketing....
by Christopher Liechty | Mar 26, 2015 | Home Improvement
If you are a home improvement contractor, it is fair to say that you are a fan of growth. We’re all a bit like kids at lunch comparing desserts – bigger is better, more dessert is superior to less dessert. In banking circles, we compare ourselves to one...
by Christopher Liechty | Mar 16, 2015 | Home Improvement
Covered at Web Urbanist (links original): Developed by CoeLux in Italy, this new form of artificial light is able to dupe humans, cameras and computers alike using a thin coating of nanoparticules to simulate Rayleigh scattering, a natural process that takes place in...
by Christopher Liechty | Feb 19, 2015 | Finance
In 2007, I worked for a community bank with a long history of high performance. At the time, I was running the only national business line, the home improvement finance business. Competition was pretty fierce but our volumes were growing steadily. Most of the water...
