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Articles by Dave Foster

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How to Start Selling Flooring Online

Dave Foster
Dave Foster
December 6, 2016
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Competition is getting more rigorous and it’s taking its toll on independent floor covering retailers.


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Future of Online Sales: Q&A Steve Simonson and Stuart Hirschhorn

Dave Foster
Dave Foster
November 8, 2016
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I won’t say that the internet has changed everything, even though it has.
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Romanoff Renovations' recruitment poster

Q&A with Romanoff Renovation's Al Ribner and Al Perreca

Dave Foster
Dave Foster
October 6, 2016
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The buzz around the industry for the past number of years has centered on the installation sector and how the shortage of qualified installers can be dealt with.
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Christopher Ramey

Chris Ramey: Focusing on the Customer Produces Winners

Dave Foster
Dave Foster
September 9, 2016
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One would think a basic in every business person’s DNA, whether we’re talking about floor covering retailers or really any person in any business, would be a major focus on the company’s customer—over and above a focus on the products being sold or the services being offered.
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Robert Varden

Q&A with CFI's Robert Varden

Dave Foster
Dave Foster
August 4, 2016
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I can remember a senior carpet industry executive in the late 1970s expressing concern that there were not sufficient numbers of installers in the country to install carpet.
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Scott Humphrey

Scott Humphrey, WFCA CEO, Shares Plans for Group’s Future

Dave Foster
Dave Foster
July 15, 2016
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The World Floor Covering Association (WFCA) has seen wholesale change in the three years since Scott Humphrey became CEO of the association, expanding in a number of directions.
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David Jolly, J&J Flooring Group

Engineered Floors, J&J Execs Discuss Merger

Dave Foster
Dave Foster
June 15, 2016
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Nobody, but nobody, anticipated that a new carpet mill would materialize in the midst of an elongated and hollow recovery, let alone watch it become the third largest carpet producer in the country.
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Promoboxx, Shaw Provide Flooring Retailers Digital Marketing

Dave Foster
Dave Foster
May 16, 2016
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Can you remember life before the Internet; before there were such words in our daily vocabulary as “online,” “social media,” “tweets,” “emoji” and so on?


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Floor Covering Business-to-Business

Conversation with Phil Zolan: On Lean Floor Retailing and the FCB2B

Dave Foster
Dave Foster
April 1, 2016
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I’ve always been curious about the term “lean” as it pertains to lean manufacturing or lean production.
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Aquafil creates nylon 6 from waste materials

CARE's Bob Peoples Discusses the Future of Carpet Recycling

Dave Foster
Dave Foster
March 1, 2016
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In 2002, the Carpet America Recovery Effort (CARE) was formed by carpet manufacturers, various representatives of government from the federal, state and local levels as well as non-government organizations.
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