There’s lots of blogging going on which is at first interesting. It seems much of the chat is between people who know about building and reading floor plans and such.

What about the rest of us? I think we’re probably your biggest untapped group of potential customers. Consider the 1-million-plus website hits. Quite a lot of visits for your company to have gone through such financially trying times in the past few years. Everyone seems to love you, so why not more sales?

My take is that pictures are worth a thousand words. Why aren’t there more pictures of finished houses and their interiors on your site (not just pictures of one house under each model)? You keep asking for people to send you their pictures. Maybe offer a discount to those you sell to if they’ll allow you to photograph and post the finished product. Don’t wait for someone to sent it to you for free. People are busy. It probably won’t happen that way. Go to them. Get what you need for the website and show it to us. Something….anything….just let us see more options. Tiny houses and the interiors in different locals, not just out in the middle of nowhere, which is nice as a fantasy but not always the most practical application. People are looking for practical ways of living and how to fit these houses into their day to day lives. Not many live out in a field in view of the Grand Tetons.

Also, it seems folks are hungry for the real thing….to see models of your houses in finished form. The coast to coast tour is great if a person is lucky enough to be in that city when you’re there. Even then, it sounds like people are missing out….the house didn’t make the ferry due to a broken tail light, the house was stuck in traffic, the house came to my town but the announcements were very late in arriving. All good reasons of course, but not what a successful, profitable business is made of.

There’s much well-deserved high praise out there for your finished products by those who have made the leap into living smaller. Yet there’s the rest of us…..a huge untapped market. I’m not a builder or a carpenter. Since you can’t visit us all or have convenient showrooms for your countless potential customers, please, please, please consider setting up some high quality virtual tours of a good variety of your houses (and change them up as new ones come available) so we can at least see our dreams as reality instead of simply reading about blueprints and room options in the endless blogs between people who sound like skilled builders.

Looking forward to lots more pictures or some virtual tours…..

~Anne