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The 2006 Kitchen & Bath Design & Remodeling Expo has been packed with a plethora of new products, as well as good information and advice from industry experts that dealers and designers can take away and use in their own firms. Seminar topics this year ranged from making an impact with your showroom displays, branding your firm, designing multi-tasking kitchens and outdoor living to designing and marketing Universal Design, and reaching the “new-generation” client. Click PLAY on the player above, along with those below, to hear some of the highlights.
Listen to a recap of Ken Peterson’s discussion on ways to make kitchen and bath firms more profitable. (Press PLAY on the player above.)
Read archived columns written by Ken Peterson, CKD, at kitchenbathdesign.com.

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A recap of Melissa Galt’s discussion on designing kitchens that multi-task.

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An overview of Joan Eisenberg’s tips for dealers and designers on how to take showrooms from boring to beautiful.

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Listen to an interview with Rick Glickman on the topic of How to Create Unlimited Potential on Limited Budgets.

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An overview of Mark Rosenhaus’s discussion of dynamic symmetry.

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Read an article on the same topic at Kitchenbathdesign.com.

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KBDN Senior Editor Barbara Capella Loehr talks with Tracy Lux of Trace Marketing, Inc. and Mary Jo Peterson, KBDN columnist and owner of Mary Jo Peterson, Inc.
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Read archived columns written by Mary Jo Peterson, CKD, CBD, CAPS at kitchenbathdesign.com.

Tracy Lux of Trace Marketing, Inc., left, and Mary Jo Peterson, KBDN columnist and owner of Mary Jo Peterson, Inc.

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A discussion on branding with Leslie Hart. Press PLAY on the mp3 player (located to the right) to listen to the podcast.

Read Leslie Hart’s column at kitchenbathdesign.com

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Held this weekend at beautiful Broadmoor Resort in Colorado Springs, CO, the 5th Annual DPHA Conference broke its own attendance record, with more than 500 kitchen and bath dealers and designers and other decorative plumbing and hardware professionals. The show floor was packed each day by plenty of design professionals looking to see the latest in baths. And the seminars, including the keynote by retail expert Paco Underhill, were well-attended, as well.

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DPHA Awards Luncheon
Jeff Burton, left, presents Jack Fase of Alno a DPHA Fellows Award.
Jeff Robboy, left, takes the reigns as 2007 DPHA president from 2006 now past president Jim Babbitt.

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