Happy New Year Everyone!

We all hope you had a fantastic Holiday Season! Now it’s back to work – but work we all love doing! It’s is an ideal time to focus on planning and developing some new growth initiatives for your business in 2007. We have an exciting year planned for Horizon, and you’ll soon see some of the new features and value added services that will really benefit you! We have lots on the go with Horizon and we’re sure that 2007 will be a banner year for everyone!

Together, with your support and involvement, we are building North America’s premier report writing and business management system for Home Inspectors!

Best wishes for the New Year, and we look forward to continuing our relationship with you and hearing about your success stories in the months ahead!

All the best!

John Kwasnik
Senior Horizon Consultant
1 800 268 7070
info@discoverhorizon.com

Quote:
“ If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” - John Quincy Adams, sixth US president

Conference News – See you at Inspection World in California!

We are excited to be a major exhibitor at Inspection World in California from January 10-13, 2007! We have a new Horizon display booth! It features a large monitor so we can demonstrate Horizon to new prospects, and help experienced users with some “live” and interactive tips and tricks that will improve your skills and knowledge of how to maximize your Horizon experience!

We hope to see you at the Conference! Stop by booth #306 and say Hi and learn a few helpful tips.

Annual Customer Survey – Coming to you in early January 2007!

We feel it is important to ask our customers about their experiences with Horizon. We are serious about involving our customers in our business, and we value your opinions and feedback. We are focused and committed to apply your feedback to make the overall Horizon program even better!

Please participate in the annual survey – it’s really important that we hear from you!

Horizon Tip

Managing photos is a topic that frequently makes its way into many Horizon conversations.
The issue: Many inspectors take 30-40 large resolution pictures and use some for their reports. The file size may be too big for Horizon reports. Much time can be spent editing each photo to bring it into acceptable limits. The other disadvantage of using large size pictures is... Read More...

Horizon Updates

As part of our commitment to you, not only do we add new Horizon features and tools to make your job easier, but we are also constantly reviewing your requests for more information and areas that we can improve on. Of course we would like to thank all of the inspectors who have offered their expertise by providing additional information for updates to the Horizon database. Read More...

Technical Articles

Technical Article #1 - Electrical – Tying the Neutral to the Ground

Many of us never give it a second thought, so let’s look at a condition which many home inspectors rarely look for, proactively. Where should the service neutral wire and the grounding system connect? Read more... 

Technical Article #2 - Scott Electric Co. Inc. Recalls Counterfeit Circuit Breakers

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. Read more...

Building Your Business

Three Ways to Grow Your Business!

In continuing with our three part series on growing your business, we will explore some examples of specific strategies that will take advantage of the three main ways to grow your business, outlined in article #1.

These include:

1. Increasing your number of customers
2. Increasing your fee (my personal favourite!)
3. Selling and offering more to each client.

We have included the first two articles in our series for you to review. To read article #3 of our series, click here and make sure to watch out for other growth strategies discussed in future editions of the Network News.

• Click here to view article #1
• Click here to view article #2

This information was extracted from “Building Your Home Inspection Business – A guide to marketing, sales, advertising, and public relations.”

Holiday Special – Extended for 7 more days!

Order "Building Your Home Inspection Business" by January 8th, 2007 and SAVE $50 off the regular price of $199! - Sale $149*

To order this book, call us at 1-800-268-7070 ext 251 or email us at education@carsondunlop.com.
* Offer ends January 8th, 2007

January Webinar Schedule

Our monthly Horizon training Webinars have struck home with many inspectors. We have received many responses from Horizon inspectors asking for more Webinars on a variety of topics. Many inspectors love the fact that the sessions are only 30 minutes, they can learn a lot in little time. Well, we’ve added more!

You have two training sessions to choose from each month. Read More...

January Horizon Special Offer

Save 15% on all moisture meters in January!

Need a new moisture meter? Order the immensely popular CT100. This is the first digital pinless moisture meter, introduced to the woodworking market, in September 1993. One-inch depth sensing, with electronic species compensation. Just turn the density control to the setting for your material and the large LCD display instantly shows the corrected moisture content! Rugged and reliable for industry, yet affordable for the hobbyist. Low battery warning symbol in display.

Incredible slimline pocket size only 4.7 x 2.7 x 1.0 inches.

Retail price: $245 + applicable taxes + shipping.
Sale Price: $208.00 + applicable taxes + shipping.

Word Scramble

Can you figure out what these home inspection related words are?

Please unscramble them and send your answers to Kanga at:
support@discoverhorizon.com

A name will be drawn from the entries that are submitted, with the correct answers for a chance to WIN A PRIZE!