Draperies & Window Coverings announces a break-through in industry education. Our Jacksonville, FL, Designer & Workroom Conference has migrated to the Web and is now an online conference event. Over two-weeks, 10 days, our slate of seminars and our growing list of exhibitors will present live over the Internet via webinars.
    The advantages of doing this are many. Everyone, everywhere can attend without the expense of traveling beyond their desktops. There will be more live seminars and product demonstrations scheduled Monday through Friday, August 17 to 28 than ever before in this industry. It’s a great deal and a...more

As we move through July, the results for June are coming in, generally with an uptick of activity.  Where are the leads coming from?  Absolute consistency:  Those who are active and trying to get appointments are getting them.  Those who just cannot get the energy or courage to get them are not.   I am always amazed at the number of business owners who would rather fail and go out of business than to get on the phone to call a past customer.   Even more, not 2% have the courage to go to a good neighborhood and knock on a door.   Look at all the people who built great businesses...everyone I have seen did it to get started.  Even the legendary...more

Honesty -- This economy has our industry in a tailspin that has probably not been seen before. We are all struggling. Openness --- It is in times like these that new products develop as a by product of the bad times. These my friends are very bad times. We have decided to hold an online conference event. It is our hope that this will save our company money, your company money and the client money and time. It is not just in our industry but it is in every industry... people just are no longer going to trade shows.  So my friends in the industry, are you open to new ideas such as the one we are presenting? Finally there has to be ...more