09.01.10
Posted in Advice at 1:55 pm by Administrator
Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy! If you haven’t heard yet, our California location is having its Grand Opening September 22nd!
Sure, they have been open a couple of weeks, but Andres and Anna have been getting to know Floor Style and how things work in our little company that spans the country, and learning more about the parts we carry, the services we provide and how our computer system interlinks with all the other computers at Floor Style.
But on the 22nd, they are having the Grand Opening! You gotta be there if you are anywhere near them. Grand openings allow them to meet the people who will be their customers, to build the rapport that allows them to better service the needs of the people with boots on the ground and sander in hand.
That’s the Floor Style official reason for the grand opening, the unofficial, and not sanctioned by Floor Style, is it is a good day to have some fun. Customers who visit will get special deals on products like sandpaper and finishes, there’ll be cool stuff given away, food and refreshments will be offered and the extra time taken to really get to know the people in the area, stories of the worst flooring disasters, stories of the best floor ever done and things that floor experts talk about will be flung around and shared by people of similar professions. It’ll be kinda like what happens at a class reunion.
So on September 22nd, if you are anywhere near:
11558 E. Washington Blvd.
Suites B&C
Whittier, CA 90606
Please stop in on the 22nd. you’ll like the people and stay for the service.
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08.31.10
Posted in Advice at 9:46 am by Administrator
Someone put a calender in my office earlier this year. It was a silly thing to do I thought. After all, I’m the I.T. guy and use various electronic-type calenders to remind me of what date it is and what is upcoming in the Floor Style world in which I live.
Funny thing is, I was blindsided this morning. Did you know today is the last day of August? I’m telling you, someone rooked us out of many days this summer. There should be at least another three, maybe four weekends of hot summer days and warm summer nights and at least one week-long day off by my calculations. There is no way summer has passed me by this quickly.
Be that as it may and enough of the whining and there is no crying in baseball (although watching Hawaii drop their final game in the Little League World Series was close), this brings us to the topic at hand: Home Shows!
OK, you might not be as excited as me, but then, you get out and see regular people on a daily basis. I don’t.
The Floor Style Home Shows and Training Seminars have evolved over the years to become something more than just a few vendors, a dozen or so customers who happen to be in the area, a quick meal and everyone heads home early from work.
Now the Home Shows and Training Seminars have become a “Thing.” Yes, a “Thing” with a capital T.
Michigan -- Oct. 4
269.945.4100 |
Ohio -- Oct. 5
614.497.9682 |
Florida, Orlando -- Oct. 6
Ft. Lauderdale Oct. 7
954.925.4494 |
Maryland -- Oct. 8
410.780.8130 |
Nevada -- Oct. 18
775.331.5353 |
California -- Oct. 20
562.692.0143 |
Now our Home Shows and Training Seminars are more than just chit chat and a few vendors hawking their products. Now we have people who will train hardwood flooring professionals on cool things like distressed flooring, proper finish application and board repair. We have classes on finance and accounting, advertising and marketing, lead and V.O.C. laws.
And the vendors who come are not there to just hawk their products, now they are teaching the attendees about WHY their products are made the way they are. This isn’t a dog and pony show anymore, this is serious stuff about the machining of a nailer body, the solid compounds in finishes, the reasons to use one type of applicator over another. There is serious learning going on at these shows.
That’s not to say there isn’t fun involved. It was fun giving away four GPS driving direction (I can’t use trade names because Tom-you-know-who might say something) pieces, nailers, edgers, shirts, finish, applicators, sporting event tickets, hats, dust containment systems and the like. People like these things, especially when they are free.
Anyhow, now that August has come to an end, or will very shortly, time for the calendar’s page to be ripped off to show September and if it goes by as quick as June, July and August has, it won’t be long and you’ll be looking at October. The Home Shows and Training Seminars are in October. Someone slow this time thing down!
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08.04.10
Posted in Advice at 4:21 pm by Administrator
Andres Zuniga works for Floor Style now. He said he speaks New York Spanish. I nodded politely because I’d never heard of that dialect of Spanish, but he does it really well by the way he talks on the phone.
Andres will be running our California location. It opens next week in Whittier California.
“What? Another location?” you ask incredulously. “Don’t you know there is supposed to be a downward spiral in the economy?”
No one told the hardwood flooring contractors because they keep asking us to open up locations nearer to them, so now we have a southern California location opening up.
The office will open next week and orders will begin rolling and machines will start getting repaired, but the official opening is August 16. That’s when the product will be fully stocked. The place is easy to get to as well. Just take Exit 14 East (E. Washington Blvd) off I-605 to the El Pollo Loco Restaurant. Turn right before El Pollo on Gretna Ave. and follow it to Floor Style’s new location in the last building on the right. We’ll put up signs to help you find us.
The actual address is
11558 E. Washington Blvd.
Suites A&C
Whittier, CA 90606
but if you look on Google maps at that address, you’ll see it is a little wrong. We are down Gretna Ave. if you’re coming from the 605 (as the locals call it), just before the restaurant El Pollo which is where we’ll probably have lunch regularly, but that’s not important right now.
During the first week we’ll be settling in, ironing out and wrinkles, meeting the neighbors, talking with local contractors who come in, making sure the telephones work the way they are supposed to and that kind of stuff. Then we roll up our sleeves and start the business of business.
Here’s the specials on tap to start the location off right:
Aug. 23 – 27
20% off Norton Abrasives in stock — 50% off labor on equipment brought into Floor Style California for repair
Aug. 30 – Sept. 3
Huge discounts on all Bona and Basic hardwood floor finishes in stock
Special savings on “cash and carry”
If you want to learn more about how Andres and Floor Style can help your business, next week make sure you give us a call at 562.692.0143. If you find out what New York Spanish is, let me know.
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