Leveraging Technology for Process Improvements
In the last blog we talked about the impact productivity has on profitability and how processes are the backbone of any business. Being in the Kitchen and Bath Industry can give you a clear understanding of how manual processes cannot
The Power Duo: Productivity and Profitability
Elon Musk reflects on Kitchen and Bath Industry Okay, maybe that’s a bit of a stretch but he did mention “time” being our biggest asset during an interview on CNBC with David Faber which led ME to reflect on how we
Your Management Sucks
Wow! That’s a bold title to kick off this blog. Well, sometimes you just need to shake the apples to make the tree fall on your head… It’s also the title of a book that cuts to the chase when
Let’s Play a Game of Peek-A-Boo
How Kitchen and Bath Dealers Should View Their Business Model In our last blog, we left off with defining what “Transference of Expectations” or “TOE” means which is saying that once a customer has experienced a certain touchpoint from a company
Raving Fans Part II
Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a nice Holiday season. At this time of the year, I always like to reflect on the last one and set my sights on the changes I would like to see. I would use
Dual Revenue Streams
Follow the Fish! I am sure that a lot of Dealers these days are looking at 2023 with some trepidation and understandably so. I don’t think we need to belabor the fact but all the folks that I have been talking
Kitchen and Bath Dealers
Let’s break the old bonds and head down the path less traveled. I was told by a coworker recently that the last couple of blogs have focused on the challenges that Kitchen and Bath Dealers face…. so, I grabbed a bucket
Kitchen and Bath Industry 2023… and How Those Dominoes Will Fall…
I know some people I have talked to recently are still hopeful that the recent decline in business will be short lived and the depth of the downturn will be minimal. As I have mentioned in previous blogs, I’m predicting
New Strategies for 2023 are Great but the buck stops with Execution
“If you could get all the people in an organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time.” -Patrick Lencioni That is a bold statement…. or is it? I’ve had
Cabinet Manufacturing Shows Signs of Slowing
How Your Business Might be Affected by the Coming Downward Trend Woodworking news just reported last Friday that cabinet sales were up 20% in May overall but the quantity of cabinets being manufactured had decreased by .8%. That followed April’s number