Kitchen & Bath Design News’ 2009 educational program continues its cross-country tour this month, with the fourth in a series of 10 seminars aimed at increasing the design skills, showroom savvy and business management acumen of kitchen and bath dealers, designers and related trade professionals. The latest seminar, set for May 14 in Denver, is one in a series of all-day seminars being co-produced under the terms of separate alliances between KBDN and both the National Kitchen & Bath Association and the SEN Design Group. Under the terms of the KBDN/NKBA partnership, two separate programs are being brought to eight major metro markets in 2009. One of them, called “Pathways to Profit,” has already been presented in Orlando and Philadelphia, while Denver, Milwaukee and Stamford, CT remain on the 2009 schedule. A second program, called “Profitable Showroom Design” was presented last month in Charlotte, NC. Remaining on the 2009 schedule are sessions in Seattle and St. Louis.

Both programs, led by Ellen Cheever, CMKBD, ASID, provide practical, in-depth strategies for generating additional revenue – and increasing profits – through trend analysis, creative design techniques, product applications, visual merchandising and showroom management. Under the terms of the partnership between KBDN and SEN, an entirely new program – “Critical Managing, Marketing & Selling Strategies in Today’s Economy” – will be presented in Milwaukee and Stamford. The KBDN/SEN programs – to be piggybacked with the NKBA programs so that attendees can take advantage of both initiatives – provide kitchen/bath dealers and related professionals with the business management, financial, sales and merchandising skills they need to cope with today’s challenging economy.

The sessions are led by Peterson and Tom Blau, v.p./education for SEN.

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