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In a world where the influence of social media continues to rise, businesses are learning new ways to raise their profiles. This month, contributing editor Christine B. Whittemore talks about social media and analytic platforms that can help boost business.
Contributing editor Dave Stafford takes a look at ways contractors can navigate the current business world amid COVID-19 by using the time to adjust their strategies, like improving online presence, as well as ways they can plan for the future.
When it comes to flooring products and their ancillary components, do the warranties really stack up to what the marketing claims? Contributing editor Lew Miglore explores different warranties and what they could mean for retailers and RSAs.
Designer Alison Woolf with Hunstman Architectural Group in San Francisco shares some of her favorite commercial flooring products, including Bentley’s Modulyss Grind carpet and Todd Contract’s Mistral Fumed Oak, and how they played into recent projects.
Dynamic flooring takes center stage in this year’s 2020 Vision Design awards, which honors work in the corporate, healthcare, education and hospitality/retails sectors. Find out who won and hear from the judges about what made these designs extraordinary.
Editor Jessica Chevalier takes a look at the current state of the hardwood category—which saw double-digit declines in 2019—and the challenges the industry is facing, with a look at how major hardwood manufacturers are adjusting to the changing landscape.
Editor Meg Scarbrough takes a look at challenges facing the U.S. flooring industry this year, in particular the COVID-19 outbreak and tariffs on China-made products, and explores which companies are manufacturing flooring on U.S. soil.
Executive editor Darius Helm takes a look at the growing trend in interior design of using polished concrete as a finished floor within retail and public spaces, and how it has started gaining traction in other commercials segments like corporate and education.
Executive editor Darius Helm takes a look at how independent flooring retailers can leverage their product knowledge and personalized services, like floor care, against big box competitors to retain their share of the residential flooring market.
Faced with changes in consumer buying habits, pressure from big box stores and Internet competition, independent flooring retailers across the country look to diversify their offerings to boost sales and increase their client bases.