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Jeff Valles: Are you ready for the Holidays?

It’s time to prepare for the busy season.

July 26, 2021

Ahh, the holidays. The time when families and friends gather to celebrate Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah and the New Year. What a special time...unless you are in the building industry. You are swamped with projects, struggling to get any product you can as your job timelines start to slip into 2022.

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Consolidated Supply Co.’s The Fixture Gallery named 2021 Showroom of the Year.

Natalie Forster

July 8, 2021

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Consolidated Supply Co.’s The Fixture Gallery named 2021 Showroom of the Year. 93-year-old Tigard, Oregon-based plumbing distributor, Consolidated Supply Co., was founded during tough times — in 1928 during The Great Depression.

Jeff Valles: Expand your reach

It’s time to make your website the go-to decorative plumbing authority.

Jeff Valles

July 6, 2021

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The internet is just as accessible to a builder with an office one block from your showroom as it is for a builder hundreds of miles away. Popular e-commerce sites do not think of regional boundaries when they create business plans. These digital companies focus on market segments that can be located anywhere — anywhere the internet reaches.

Jeff Valles: Share your knowledge and success

Be authentic, proud and loud.

Jeff Valles

May 6, 2021

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I was visiting Salem Plumbing Supply in Beverly, Massachusetts, for the first time and had not a clue where to go. As I approached a counter sales person, Ralph Sevinor, the owner and one fine gentleman, saw me and grabbed my arm and said, “I want to show you something.

Jeff Valles: What makes a good salesperson?

Showroom salespeople may not need to be the traditional sales personality.

Jeff Valles

March 29, 2021

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The best profile for a showroom salesperson is not the high-energy type “A” personalities that focus on getting the sale.

Jeff Valles: Not worried about e-commerce?

Invest in your showroom's edge.

Jeff Valles

January 27, 2021

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Remember when you traveled to shop at your local shoe store? The salesperson guided you around the showroom and helped you select the shoes that were just the right look and then carefully measured your shoe size.

Gateway Supply Charleston moves to new location

September 29, 2020

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Gateway Supply has been serving the Charleston area since 2015, and recently moved to a new and improved location.

Jeff Valles: COVID-19 can help with customer selections in showrooms

Implementing this simple process can prevent overwhelmed customers and sanitation stress.

Jeff Valles

September 29, 2020

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You have taken great care to create and merchandise your showrooms to display every style and configuration of faucet available in countless finishes. You are confident that any customer walking through the front door will be able to sort through the many products and find the faucet just right for their job.

Jeff Valles: Where do your customers go to build their brand?

There is gold in those social media posts!

Jeff Valles

June 29, 2020

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We have heard it a thousand times, marketing is now a dialogue; it is no longer just simply post and pray. When we post to our websites, Facebook or Instagram, we can see how many people visit, who they are and which of our products and stories they like.

Natalie Forster: A balancing act

Showrooms must prove value in both e-commerce platforms and in-person customer experience.

Natalie Forster

June 29, 2020

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Since this issue includes bath and kitchen trends, Showroom of the Year and distribution software technology, I spent quite a bit of time talking to showroom operations managers and owners.