IT TAKES A VILLAGE TO RAISE A HOME BUILDING COMPANY

​We have all heard “it takes a village to raise a child”.  Well, this morning I received an email from our friend, Michael Stoskopf, at the Home Builders Association of Southeast Michigan that made me think of this exact saying. They did a blog post about Echelon It Takes a Village to Raise a Home Building CompanyHomes. This lead me to think about our home building company and our marketing journey. Echelon Homes started when Rick was working two jobs yet had the desire to build his own business. I was there when that dream became a reality, (and cleaning the homes along the way too). This was in 1996.

We have come a long way since building 2-4 new homes a year. Throughout that growth we have enlisted the help of many friends and their business expertise to “raise” our child. We cannot thank them enough for their belief in Rick’s dream and their advise along the way regarding marketing (sometimes a little strong advise but always with the best intentions possible). So we wanted to thank them officially. I am hoping we do not forget someone, if we do you know my number to remind me…

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A big thank you from us to you

• Rebecca at Web Savvy Marketing. She created this website and has answered many calls from me regarding marketing. She is my go to person on anything SEO related, website related and will listen to me vent about anything.
  
• Rob at i-smiley created our beautiful logo. He was very patient with our team throughout the entire process and put many hours into making the perfect logo for us.
  
• Matt at Visible Marketing, and an Echelon Homes customer. He created the unique slide show images on our websites homepage, our business cards, made blankets with our logo on them, along with other marketing projects. He sends me emails with fantastic suggestions on how to assist us in many marketing aspect Home Builder Association of Southeast Michigan.  This organization is a fantastic supporter of all of their members.  It is very much appreciated.
  
• Last, but definitely not least, our home owners, they are our best marketing partners ever!

Our village is surrounded by many fantastic marketing partners and friends. I hope if you are searching for that business opportunity you arm yourself with some wonderful people as we are so lucky to have helping us “raise” Echelon Homes. There are so many more friends that help us each and every day in other ways. As Rick says, “business building is a sport, a team sport”. We believe we have a winning team and simply wanted to say thanks for your continued support.

Article by: Jennifer Elkow