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Top 500 Live Speaker: Jeff Gunhus, CEO of Home Genius Exteriors | How to Scale: From $0 to $150 million in Seven Years Gunhus was a successful entrepreneur in the painting industry when he attended the very first TOP 500 LIVE conference in 2017. By 2018 he was in the roofing, siding and windows business having launched Home Genius Exteriors. In 2023, the firm billed $73.7 million in revenue on 3,755 jobs. Having opened multiple greenfield locations, the firm is on track to hit $150 million this year. Gunhus explains how he and his team were able to bootstrap and scale their business so rapidly. #Top500Live

Normandy Design Build Remodeling | 2024 Master Design Awards Addition Less Than $250,000 — GOLD This family lived in a newer, fairly sizable home, but the space utilization and layout kept them from gathering together, so a primary driver of this addition was to capitalize on an open-concept layout that would connect the new family room to the existing kitchen. Keep reading + see more photos: https://bit.ly/4fE5NG7 … Normandy Remodeling, Hinsdale, Illinois Designer: Jeremy Paris Photos: courtesy of Normandy

Incentivize. Recognize. Develop. Jenilee Common, CEO of Erie Home, shares her wisdom on organic growth and a legacy of leadership at Top 500 Live 2024. ... Erie Home, the No. 8 company on Qualified Remodeler's TOP 500 list is a fast growing roofing and basement company based in Toledo. Founded in 1976, the company's roots in home improvement are very deep. And it's been a training ground for some of the industry's foremost leaders. CEO Jenilee Common provides an overview of Erie Home and unpacks how the company's strong foundation in sales training and sales leadership has consistently churned out some of the industry's most talented leaders. #QRTop500Live #Top500Live #Remodeling #BusinessAdvice #ErieHome

Harth Builders | 2024 Master Design Awards Exterior Facelift — GOLD These clients wanted to transform their drab and understated 1980s center-hall, Colonial-style home to one with a modern farmhouse aesthetic with additional living space. Challenges associated with the project included navigating opposing roof lines and seamlessly marrying the old with the new. Keep reading + see more photos: https://bit.ly/3YjBIFv … Harth Builders, Lower Gwynedd, Pennsylvania HarthBuilders Designer: Anna Bush/Tammie Guevarra Location: Blue Bell, Pennsylvania Photos: Linda McManus Images

Pinemar, Inc. | 2024 Master Design Awards Historic Renovation — GOLD This project, originally a 1740 dairy barn, began as a kitchen renovation and family room addition, but it quickly grew into a complete renovation with a new conservatory added to the original front elevation. Keep reading + see more photos: https://bit.ly/3O1OZwE … Pinemar, Inc., Ardmore, Pennsylvania Designer: Elizabeth Bauer Interior Design/Warren Claytor Architects Photos: Francesco Lagnese

TOP 500 LlVE hit it out of the park in 2024! ?? The home improvement industry’s leading sales and lead-generation conference, wrapped up Wednesday, Oct. 30, at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas. On Tuesday and Wednesday, Asher Raphael and Billy Beane each delivered a keynote address to a standing-only room of event attendees. The list of esteemed speakers also included Jenilee Common, Jim Ziminski, Jeff Gunhus, Michael Hoy, Ryan Shutt, Richard Begalla, Vince Venditti, Tim Brown, Jr., Tom Beerle, D.S. Berenson, Chuck Thokey, Amy Zimmerman, Senja Spelman, John Anglis, Megan Beattie, Tony Hoty, Brian Gottlieb, Mark Curry, Chris Counahan, Brian Kaskavalciyan, Rich Harshaw, and Qualified Remodeler's Patrick O'Toole. Thank you to all who attended. We hope to see you next year in Las Vegas November 17-19, 2025! Read more about TOP 500 LIVE 2024 — https://bit.ly/3YLbAUv

TOP 500 LIVE Keynote: Billy Beane, Senior Advisor, Oakland Athletics — “Moneyball, Data, Your Business and Your Team” ?? Beane’s message fit perfectly with a major theme of TOP 500 LIVE: how to build a winning team. His stat-driven approach to building a high-performing roster of players forever changed the way players and teams are drafted. Mr. Beane draws a straight line between his Moneyball approach to player acquisitions to how all businesses can use data to make better decisions, particularly about people. ?? Highlights ?? “Culture is a product of success.” … “If you put good data on the field, there’s going to be success and there’s going to be good culture.” We make the best decisions when we have the best info. Data driven processes allow you to look back and see where things went wrong and where things went right. “Best decision I made as an exec…was who I hired.” … “When you put a bunch of smart people in the room, good things happen.” #QRTop500Live #BillyBeane #Moneyball #Data #Business #OaklandAthletics

Top 500 Live Speaker: Asher Raphael, Co-CEO of Power Home Remodeling | In many ways, Power Home Remodeling is reinventing the home improvement industry. Based near Philadelphia, Power Home Remodeling owns and manages 22 home-grown offices nearly coast-to-coast. Fueled by a youthful, purpose-driven culture, the company is a recruiting and training juggernaut that is home to more than 3,500 employees. And those employees are among the happiest found anywhere, not just in home improvement. Power is the No. 14 Best Company to Work For nationwide according to Fortune magazine. It is the No. 8 Best Company to Work For among Millennials. And it has a Glassdoor rating of 4.5 out of 5. In 2024, Power is ranked No. 4 on the Qualified Remodeler TOP 500 with $1.24 billion in remodeling sales on 97,631 completed jobs. Thank you, Asher, for sharing your knowledge with the?#QRTop500Live?audience!

TOP 500 LIVE, the home improvement industry’s leading sales and lead-generation conference, started off Monday, Oct. 28, with a reception sponsored by Synchrony. The attendees, many of whom had never been to TOP 500 LIVE, shared their enthusiasm about the jam-packed agenda over the next two days of top industry CEOs and experts focused on today’s best practices in sales and marketing. Read More: https://bit.ly/40iEPz4

Four days until TOP 500 LIVE 2024! Get ready for a jam-packed agenda of top CEOs and experts sharing best practices to hit 2025 sales and marketing goals out of the park. All-star speakers Asher Raphael, Power Home Remodeling CEO, and Billy Beane, Oakland Athletics Senior Advisor, will kick off each day at 8 a.m. in the Belmont Ballroom. (Raphael will speak on Tuesday, and Beane will speak on Wednesday.) Find the schedule and more — https://bit.ly/3NDZENP