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Flooring Retailers: Top Seven Sites to Build an Online Presence

Dave Foster
Dave Foster
February 1, 2016
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Steve Simonson is a pioneer in the floor covering industry, launching iFloor.com in 1999 and in the process defining how marketing floor coverings online would play out in the years to come.
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Donny Phillips, Riley Gazzaway, Frank Winter

Flooring Retailer Donny Phillips: The Culture of One Customer at a Time

Dave Foster
Dave Foster
January 1, 2016
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It was estimated in 2010 there were between 11,000 and 12,000 establishments selling floor coverings in the U.S. That number, according to many experts, has contracted to an estimated 8,000 to 9,000 in 2015.
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Independent Contractor or Employee? Think Again

Dave Foster
Dave Foster
December 1, 2015
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Are installers contractors or are they employees? This question has puzzled many in this industry and it’s been hanging over the heads of independent retailers for years.


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Dave Elyachar: Competing Against the Big Boxes

Dave Foster
Dave Foster
November 4, 2015
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Big Bob’s Flooring Outlet has been in existence for some 31 years, beginning as a single location in Kansas City and evolving into a unique operation perfectly poised for the retail floor covering industry’s next iteration.


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Bolyu Intermix

Beaulieu's Steve Hillis: ‘Doubling Business in the Next 5 Years’

Dave Foster
Dave Foster
October 6, 2015
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A lot has been happening at Beaulieu Commercial in the past few months and at the epicenter of the activity is Steve Hillis, the president. Steve has been there and done that in all of the best places in the commercial floor covering business and was just about ready to take himself out of circulation and, yes, retire.


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Eric Demaree, Carpet One's president

Traffic Count is Everything: A Conversation with Carpet One’s Eric Demaree

Dave Foster
Dave Foster
August 31, 2015
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Most years I attend both the winter and summer Carpet One conventions, which, by the way, are extremely well produced affairs that rival the production of anything that the people in Hollywood can put together.


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Arley’s Scott Levy: If You Do the Right Thing the Money Will Come

Dave Foster
Dave Foster
August 4, 2015
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For the last two years we have had the opportunity to attend the Arley Wholesale Tile and Stone Expo in Scranton, Pa.


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Chris Burdon

Dev O’Reilly: Don’t Be a Graybeard, Adopt Industry’s B2B Protocol

Dave Foster
Dave Foster
July 1, 2015
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The Floor Covering Business to Business Association (fcB2B) is the force behind bringing the floor covering industry into the 21st century, and it is doing so by raising the efficiency of all players in the system—buyers and sellers.


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Brian Gracon

Brian Gracon: Assessing Training Needs by Assessing People Skills

Dave Foster
Dave Foster
June 10, 2015
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Based on the turnout at TISE, Coverings and the other industry events so far this year I’d say training is more popular than ever.


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CarpetsPlus ColorTile’s Ron Dunn: Making the Best of Any Situation

Dave Foster
Dave Foster
May 7, 2015
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The buying groups, marketing groups or whatever they’re called these days in the floor covering industry have been an extremely valuable adjunct to the business.


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