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Hub You - How To Choose A House Plan - Part 7 of 10
Your website blueprint is the basic structure of your entire website. The blueprint we are going to cover works best with content websites. There are other blueprints for sales websites etc and we cover those in this site also. There isn’t much to the content website blueprint, it consists of three tiers you can add more but three can easily cover a full website.Each tier consists of Keyword Focused Content Pages. They are represented in the diagram as KCP. Each KCP is built around one or a few keywords, which helps in search engine optimization and tells the search engines that your site is relevant to the keyword. Higher search rankings mean more free targeted traffic. You will start with your homepage in tier one and then spread your site out in the next two tiers, adding more keyword content pages that are relevant to your niche.Tier 1 Tier 1 is your homepage this is the page that explains your niche and what you do. The keyword(s) you should be focusing on are usually your seed word or your niche. We will discuss placement of
But with a little research, square foot pricing can be a useful tool. Find out what similar houses cost to build in your area (don't forget to take out the cost of the land first) to place your plan in an appropriate price range. Find builders
A significant advantage of some business ideas is that the venture can break even at what seems to be an easily achievable volume. A technique for quantifying that volume, called break-even analysis, examines the interaction among fixed costs, variable costs, prices, and unit volume to determine that combination of elements in which revenues and total costs are equal.Fixed costs are those expenses necessary to keep the business open, and are not impacted by sales volume. They will include such things as rent, basic telephone expenses and utilities, wages for core employees, loan or lease payments, and other necessary expenditures. An entrepreneur should also include a living wage for himself/herself as a fixed cost.Variable costs include those expenses that change as a result of sales volume. This can be a relatively simple relationship, as in cost of goods sold, where for example the variable cost of baked goods sold at a coffee shop is what we pay the baker for them, $0.30 each. Variable costs can also be very complex; for example, high
Square Foot Pricing...Handle With Care!
When evaluating the costs of building a new home, many homeowners use square foot pricing as a basis for comparison. Let's talk about square foot pricing for a minute - what it is and what it isn't.
Square foot pricing is a method to roughly compare construction costs for two similar houses, houses in different parts of the country, and houses with different characteristics. It is not a method for determining how much a particular design is going to cost to build.
I can tell you, for example, that a typical production starter home (a standard plan built by a large-volume regional or national builder) will cost around $80 to $100 per square foot to build in my part of the country. A "semi-custom" home will cost around $110 to $130 per square foot, and a true custom home will cost at least $140, and as much at $200 per square foot to build.
Show me a house plan, and with a few specific questions, a builder can place it within one of those ranges. That's a start, but for a 2,500 square foot "semi-custom" home, a range of $20 per square foot is a lot of money. You most definitely don't want your cost estimate on a $250,000 house to be off by $50,000!
But with a little research, square foot pricing can be a useful tool. Find out what similar houses cost to build in your area (don't forget to take out the cost of the land first) to place your plan in an appropriate price range. Find builders w
About FlickrFlickr is social-networking website that is built to allow people to post and share their own photos. Owned by Yahoo, it is the most popular of this category of sites. According to Alexa, it reaches approximately 10% of all Internet users and is the 42nd most popular website on the Internet.Potential Hospitality Industry Uses of Flickr:Millions use Flickr. Search to see if there are already photos of your area or property. See what people are posting about you or your area.Flickr will link to your website with the photos you upload. This will help drive qualified traffic, as well as potential search engine benefits.Flickr is a convenient place to share photos, and lets you create slideshows to put on your website.Flickr is a powerful and convenient way to manage your own photo library. Photos can be made private if you don't want the whole world to see them.Flickr will print all kinds of collateral (calendars, booklets, posters, prints, stamps, etc) from your photos.Flickr will let you
Square Foot Pricing...Handle With Care!
When evaluating the costs of building a new home, many homeowners use square foot pricing as a basis for comparison. Let's talk about square foot pricing for a minute - what it is and what it isn't.
Square foot pricing is a method to roughly compare construction costs for two similar houses, houses in different parts of the country, and houses with different characteristics. It is not a method for determining how much a particular design is going to cost to build.
I can tell you, for example, that a typical production starter home (a standard plan built by a large-volume regional or national builder) will cost around $80 to $100 per square foot to build in my part of the country. A "semi-custom" home will cost around $110 to $130 per square foot, and a true custom home will cost at least $140, and as much at $200 per square foot to build.
Show me a house plan, and with a few specific questions, a builder can place it within one of those ranges. That's a start, but for a 2,500 square foot "semi-custom" home, a range of $20 per square foot is a lot of money. You most definitely don't want your cost estimate on a $250,000 house to be off by $50,000!
But with a little research, square foot pricing can be a useful tool. Find out what similar houses cost to build in your area (don't forget to take out the cost of the land first) to place your plan in an appropriate price range. Find builders
Now that you have written your business plan, have your preliminary financial data in place, you need money to make it happen.How do you find that money? If you have saved up some, you can use that, or you can go to friends and family and get some money from them, if they support your concept and think you can do it. (F/F/P phase)There are two other sources to go to as well, Angels or Venture Capitalist.An Angel is a person or group that typically gives a startup up idea from $25K to as much as $1M (that much is typically an Angel Group) to begin developing the Proof of Concept or the product itself. You should go to an Angel Funding Source if you need less than $1M, and typically less than $500K, to get your product built, or if your plan requires a Proof of Concept, the Proof of Concept built.If you go to an Angel or Angel Group you need to look at some factors before starting to talk to them. Do some research and find out:1. What the person/group you are interested in asking money from typically invests their money
I can tell you, for example, that a typical production starter home (a standard plan built by a large-volume regional or national builder) will cost around $80 to $100 per square foot to build in my part of the country. A "semi-custom" home will cost around $110 to $130 per square foot, and a true custom home will cost at least $140, and as much at $200 per square foot to build.
Show me a house plan, and with a few specific questions, a builder can place it within one of those ranges. That's a start, but for a 2,500 square foot "semi-custom" home, a range of $20 per square foot is a lot of money. You most definitely don't want your cost estimate on a $250,000 house to be off by $50,000!
But with a little research, square foot pricing can be a useful tool. Find out what similar houses cost to build in your area (don't forget to take out the cost of the land first) to place your plan in an appropriate price range. Find builders
In Chicago, owning a new car might lead to owning a higher deductible. A deductible is the amount you pay from your own pocket before the insurance company compensates the rest. Increasing your deductible from $500 to $1000 could decrease your monthly payments by as much as 30 percent. Assuming more risk factors, some instances may reduce the cost of your car insurance. If your car is worth less than $2000, you are most likely spending more on insurance than it is worth.Policies will be affected drastically if there is no collision coverage in your policy. There are five methods to save money on your new car insurance. The cost of a six-month auto insurance policy for the same driver with same coverage varies from company to company by more than $500 in Chicago.It is advisable not to carry excessive coverage. The insurance companies pay claims equal to a car's actual cash value or market value. The collision coverage may not help an older car that has depreciated. Consider dropping collision coverage after four years, or when the collisio
Show me a house plan, and with a few specific questions, a builder can place it within one of those ranges. That's a start, but for a 2,500 square foot "semi-custom" home, a range of $20 per square foot is a lot of money. You most definitely don't want your cost estimate on a $250,000 house to be off by $50,000!
But with a little research, square foot pricing can be a useful tool. Find out what similar houses cost to build in your area (don't forget to take out the cost of the land first) to place your plan in an appropriate price range. Find builders
When trying to get something accomplished, assertive behavior is the most effective. Although other methods may accomplish the intended ends, the alternatives imperil our own rights or those of others, creating conflict and building mistrust into relationships. One of the keys to effectiveness is learning how to communicate thoughts and feelings without jeopardizing yourself or others, and this ability elevates both morale and productivity in the workplace.Distinguish for yourself what is submissive, assertive, and aggressive behavior in different situations. Consider your non-verbal behavior as well. Pick a situation and imagine how you usually handle it. Write down your usual responses in posture, eye contact, voice, tone, facial expression, and physical contact.Now, pinpoint your own blocks to assertiveness: fear of disapproval, need to please others, fear of being too masculine or feminine, or the dread of making mistakes.Visualize yourself dealing effectively with a problem situation by considering alternative responses. Do no
But with a little research, square foot pricing can be a useful tool. Find out what similar houses cost to build in your area (don't forget to take out the cost of the land first) to place your plan in an appropriate price range. Find builders who build homes in that range and have them prepare a more detailed take-off for you.
An experienced builder will be able to further evaluate your plan in terms of the expected level of finish, the impact of your building site, and other factors in order to fine-tune the cost estimate.
House Plan Size
Many things affect the cost of building a typical house but there are three big ones: size, complexity, and the level of finish. The effect of house size on construction cost is obvious - I don't need to explain this in detail, do I? Bigger houses cost more. But it's not quite that simple.
Significantly more important than house size alone is the matter of where that size goes since the "cost per square foot" of a house varies tremendously from room to room. It's obvious that a kitchen, with appliances, cabinets, countertops, plumbing fixtures, tile flooring, and other expensive finishes will cost more "per square foot" to build than a bedroom - which doesn't have much more finish than carpeting and paint.
If you squeeze the size of a house down by taking space from low cost-per-square-foot rooms like bedrooms you'll find that you haven't affected the overall cost of the house much at all. In fact, you'll likely not do much more than simply raise the cost per square foot of the entire (now smaller) house - and maybe not change the overall cost at all.
So a smaller house - if the size difference is in inexpensive rooms - may not be a less expensive house.
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