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Sales & Marketing Alignment
Application of soft skills is especially crucial to help ensure that sales and marketing teams are aligned. After all, both sales and marketing share the same essential goal: to grow the company.
What Bees Can Teach Building Product Brands About Specialization
Most of us know the basic story of bees and flowers. The relationship is symbiotic. Bees move from bloom to bloom – which helps plants reproduce – while gathering what’s needed to sustain the hive. Yes, an essential exchange. What gets overlooked. Is how bees...
The Digital Customer Experience Is Becoming the Competitive Differentiator
For years, creating a brand for building products treated digital marketing as a support function. Host a website. Populate a CRM platform and an outbound email campaign. Post some social content and a budget for selected paid media. And when technology finally became...
Why Building Product Brands Need Emotional Connection
For decades, marketing for building products has relied on a familiar promise. Stronger, faster – more durable and easier to install – a better warranty. Those claims of course matter. Performance will continue to earn credibility in this channel. After all, it helps...
HydroBlok Introduces the Direct-to-Stud Breakthrough the Building Industry Has Needed
DRAPER, Utah (May 28, 2026) — HydroBlok, a manufacturer of lightweight, waterproof construction systems, today announced that its HB One Backer CI panel has passed testing for direct-to-stud installation in non-shear wall applications — a breakthrough that removes...
Mid-Year Economic Report: The Market Has Shifted
Each year our team’s economic reports help provide our clients with direction. Confidence or concern. Smooth sailing or rougher waters. At mid cycle, the story this year is more nuanced. Yet signal-to-noise metrics provide opportunities for building product brands....
Campaign Critique: PGT Windows and Doors Changes the Brand Story
Rebrands in the building products industry are rarely mere cosmetic exercises. More often, they signal something larger happening. Ownership changes, operational expansion and portfolio integration are traditional trigger events. Or simply shifting market ambitions....
Why Some Building Products Are Growing… And Others Aren’t
For years, building product brands could rely on a relatively predictable growth environment. Steady project flow. Familiar specification cycles. Established dealer relationships. And brand preference built over time. That environment has changed. Project timelines...
Why Google and AI Isn’t Enough? Social Search Is Watching Different Signals
For years, the digital strategy playbook had a familiar starting point. Rank on Google. Earn the click. Land the visit. Convert the lead. That model still matters. But it is no longer enough. AI search dominates the conversation today. And for good reason....
Amba® Products Promotes Harris Wattles to Vice President to Support Growth Across Commercial and Consumer Markets
ATLANTA, Georgia (April 27, 2026) – Amba Products, a leading provider of luxury heated towel racks, announces the appointment of Harris Wattles to Vice President. After nearly 18 years with the company, Wattles has spent his career in sales, operations, and leadership...
What Apple’s CEO Transition Says About Trust in Building Products
When Apple announced this week that Tim Cook would hand the CEO baton to John Ternus, the story was not simply about succession. It was about the opportunity to extend a brand’s most important asset. Trust. Cook has shared what Steve Jobs advised him before he took...









