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New Midwest Chapter Kicks Off with Two Great Events

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Minnesota Stone Summit attendees take part in discussions regarding industry standards and industry safety. One topic the panel tackled was training sales staff on how to set expectations with clients. Chuck Johannes said, “Once sales staff set expectations, sales people think they will lose the sale.

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Flooring retailers pushed to embrace artificial intelligence

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Nothing replaces a professional sales team, but we believe AI can assist our clients during non-business hours and compile the data required for us to meet our customers’ expectations.” who said, “To me, communication with in-bound leads or appropriate communication throughout the sales and installation process would be tremendously helpful.

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Retailers reveal the suppliers they win with

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Our product offering and approach to the market helps our retail partners enjoy higher sales tickets, better margins and a more profitable business.”. We have great sales reps who really take good care of us, and they also are very good at making sure that if we have any issues or claims they get them taken care of.

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Tarkett partners with FlorStar Sales

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Solon, Ohio—Tarkett has entered a distribution partnership with FlorStar Sales, Inc. Effective immediately, FlorStar will represent the company’s resilient product portfolio in the Illinois, Michigan, northern Indiana, Wisconsin, northwest Ohio, Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota markets.

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The art of managing multiple stores

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“Managers must be empowered to be able to make decisions regarding their stores,” noted Eric Langan, president and owner of Carpetland USA (The Langan Group), which consists of nine stores across Iowa and Illinois. “If Carpetland USA’s Langan is also of the opinion that you need consistent standards throughout all locations.

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Retail’s best practices during dire times

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“Our entire sales team operates with iPads, so they are comfortable with technology. We provide private showroom visits to allow customers to visit a clean showroom with a very limited number of people in the showroom and strictly honoring social distancing standards. Davenport, Iowa. Denton, Texas. Naperville, Ill.

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Dealers share A+ products from 2020

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We are seeing robust sales on the Advanced+ series after only being in the stores for a short period of time.”. Natural Essence represents both luxury and supreme craftsmanship and is crafted with Greenguard Certified environmental standards. Doug Bertrand, CarpetlandUSA, Davenport, Iowa. Bruce Odette, Carpet Exchange, Denver.