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Articles Tagged with ''small business''

the power of words in your flooring installation business

Floor Academy Briefing: The Terms You Use Matter

Kyle Hedin
Kyle Hedin
February 20, 2023

Rethinking the terms we use to describe ourselves and our clients could benefit both in the end. Here are just a few that could make a difference.


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using data to improve your flooring installation business

Floor Academy Briefing: What You Can't See

Kyle Hedin
Kyle Hedin
January 2, 2023

The ability to stop and analyze a problem from a 30,000-foot view is something more contractors need. Are you tracking your business’ data? What’s missing? 


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Coverings

Floor Academy Briefing: You Must Attend Flooring Industry Events

Kyle Hedin
Kyle Hedin
June 3, 2022

I don’t want to stop learning or evolving. I want to know what is coming my way. I want to be involved and help influence where the industry goes in the future.


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managing stress

Floor Academy Briefing: Finding the Stress Sweet Spot in Your Life and Business

Kyle Hedin
Kyle Hedin
March 1, 2022

Everyone dreams of living stress-free and thinking it will be a much better fit for their life. I don’t know if that is the case. I think there needs to be a balance.


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business management

Create Freedom to Worry Less About Your Flooring Business

Matt Ketterman
Matt Ketterman
May 11, 2021

As business owners, we will never be worriless. With the right mindset and plan in place, we can all worry less.


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Kelly Kole and Joanne Kandrac of Kandrac & Kole Interior Design

Women Breaking Barriers in Business

Danielle Clair
Danielle Clair Simpson
March 29, 2021
Three women in flooring discuss the passions and pitfalls of entrepreneurship.
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president

INSTALL Contractor Smith Flooring Hosts Presidential Tour

March 28, 2021

President Biden met with Smith Flooring to discuss how the relief package—including the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP)—helps millions of Americans and family-owned commercial flooring contractors maintain operations.


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diversity and inclusion in the workplace

How Flooring Retailers Can Encourage Diversity in the Workplace

Danielle Clair
Danielle Clair Simpson
February 23, 2021

We’ve taken three general tools for successful diversity, equity and inclusion, provided by Bonnie Mayfield, chair, Dykema Gossett PLLC in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and applied them to our industry.


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WFCA

WFCA Asks Flooring Industry to Act

August 16, 2020

Congress is currently considering a fifth round of major legislation to help small businesses and to stimulate the economy in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The World Floor Covering Association is looking for help to spread the word for the industry to act.

 

 


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WFCA

SBA Reopens the Economic Injury Disaster Advance Loan

June 16, 2020

In response to the Coronavirus pandemic, Congress passed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act.


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