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Jeff Valles: Showroom Dollars & Sense
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Jeffrey Valles is a Decorative Plumbing and Hardware Association Lifetime Fellow.

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Jeff Valles

Jeff Valles: A new showroom opportunity

Investing in your digital presence is the best way to compete.
Jeff Valles
December 28, 2020
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Wherever we turn, people are telling us that working from home and shopping on the Internet are becoming the new norms. Is that true? Not yet, but COVID-19 has required many of us to work out of our homes and forced us to navigate the virtual mall — the Internet.
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Jeff Valles: Revamp your showroom strategy

The age-old business model may not be intriguing to today’s customers.
Jeff Valles
November 30, 2020
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Over the past five decades, showrooms have grown from necessary nuances to contributing profit centers. They have both helped and benefited from the story slowly leaking out that plumbing fixtures can be as elegant as Vladimir Kagan furniture creations.
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Jeff Valles: Looking to improve your business?

Channel Nobel Prize laureate, Richard Feynman.
Jeff Valles
October 29, 2020
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When Richard Feynman read a white paper, he would read it until he fully understood the stated problem. Then he would stop, walk away from the document and try to solve the problem himself. Now, why would one, no matter how bright and accomplished, take the time to solve a problem that had already been solved?
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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.
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Jeff Valles: Showroom business in an era of appointments

Addicted users need support and love in a pandemic.
Jeff Valles
September 10, 2020
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In the pandemic year 2020, your showroom has a velvet rope around it and is only open to those with appointments. All the while, it remains lovely inside; elegant products adorn every wall and talented sales people are at the ready. 


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Jeff Valles: A recipe for success

Vendors and distributors must communicate and share data.
Jeff Valles
July 27, 2020
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A vendor creates the product and the distributor takes it to market; a simple, linear process that has evolved over many decades to best leverage the strengths of each player, and offset their weaknesses. 


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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.


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Jeff Valles: Brick and mortar showrooms are a key marketing tool

Jeff Valles
May 12, 2020
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Never miss an opportunity to remind your targeted market, your social media followers and all of those people who found gold on your website that you have displays right in their neighborhood. 


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Jeff Valles: Listen to their story; Then write your part

Jeff Valles
April 22, 2020
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This sales advice is aimed at people who call on and work with principles and gatekeepers of companies. 


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Jeff Valles: Vendors: May we please improve training?

Jeff Valles
February 25, 2020
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The training quality in our decorative showroom business is all over the place.


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