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Home » Authors » Janet Carter

Janet Carter

Janet Carter ASID, author of Showroom Management, is a color, design and communications consultant based in Kohler, WI, and the author of the book, “The Showroom Management Manual.” She works with various manufacturers of interior building products and residential interior furnishings. Widely recognized for her product design expertise, Janet is a frequent speaker at national trade shows as well as local distributor and industry events.
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Collecting Fees for Your Design Services

Janet Carter
November 10, 2003
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As consumers become more knowledgeable about products, they also become expectant of some services -- one of which is design. And while retailers are clear on how to charge for products, there is one product that some vendors are giving away. And that product is design services.
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Collecting Fees for Your Design Services

Janet Carter
November 10, 2003
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As consumers become more knowledgeable about products, they also become expectant of some services -- one of which is design. And while retailers are clear on how to charge for products, there is one product that some vendors are giving away. And that product is design services.
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Collecting Fees for Your Design Services

Janet Carter
November 10, 2003
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As consumers become more knowledgeable about products, they also become expectant of some services -- one of which is design. And while retailers are clear on how to charge for products, there is one product that some vendors are giving away. And that product is design services.
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The Floor’s Importance in Designing Interiors and Your Showroom

Janet Carter
October 1, 2003
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When you work in the flooring industry, you’re somewhat jaded in believing that the floor, or fifth wall, is the most important surface in the room. And I’m here to agree! The floor has become the most important surface, especially when designing interiors. So why not carry that idea into your showroom when you design the floor there?
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Use Merchandising Imagination to Supercharge Your Hardwood Floor Sales

Janet Carter
September 5, 2003
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I love hardwood floors. They’re warm and inviting and, with today’s superb finishes, they’re also easy to care for. These are not your grandmother’s hardwood floors!
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Chicago in June: It Must be NeoCon!

Janet Carter
August 7, 2003
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A deluge of interior designers, architects and facility managers headed for the NeoCon World’s Trade Fair at the Merchandise Mart greets anyone traveling in downtown Chicago during the third week of June. These folks spend three days combing more than 1 million square feet of exhibit space searching for what’s new in contract furnishings.
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Color is not a Four-Letter Word!

Janet Carter
June 30, 2003
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Over the years, we’ve traveled through various stages of mauve, gray, blue, and green, with almond and off-whites holding their place at the top of the popularity polls. It took us a long time to graduate from almond and off-white interiors, but we are now experiencing a true explosion in the use of color.
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Seeking Affluent Floor Covering Customers? Even in a Soft Economy, Luxury Still Sells

Janet Carter
April 15, 2003
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Last fall, Neiman Marcus President Burton Tansky addressed a group at the Texas A&M Center for Retail Studies Retailing Summit.
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Merchandising and Advertising Go Hand-in-Hand

Janet Carter
March 12, 2003
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The notion of simultaneously planning merchandising and advertising strategies is a matter of common sense to marketing folks. But to some in the retail business, that message just hasn’t hit home yet.
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When it Comes to Decorating a Masterpiece Home, the Floor is the Focal Point of the Canvas

Janet Carter
February 11, 2003
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When I was a full-time employee of various floor covering manufacturers, I became totally immersed in thinking that the only surface that existed in the room was the floor! The theory was that you began the planning and decoration of a room with the largest surface -- which, of course, is the floor.
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