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  • pricing table basics
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    Pricing Table Basics and How to Check Yours
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    Many frame shops could make significant profit improvements by taking a look at the way their pricing tables for moulding and matting are set up. Pricing is critical to the success of your business, so spending some time on these tables can help your profits.
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    Four Tips to Make Sure You Are Ready for the Holidays
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    Is your frame shop ready for the holidays? Being prepared can make the difference between a profitable season and a stressful one. Follow these four tips.
  • use design to compete in custom framing
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    Competing in the Custom Framing Industry
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    Many factors are important in a successful small business, but great design sets you apart in your market. Amazing designers create demand and allow you to grow average ticket and profits.
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    On The Road
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    Pat and I will be taking KB Consulting on the road and living in our new Airstream trailer. We look forward to sharing what we learn from the shops we visit and continuing to offer our KB products and services.
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    What I Learned This Summer
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    Great service is what really creates a memorable customer experience. The product (in this case, the food) matters, but it is not everything. During my travels overseas, I noticed that the level of service while dining left me underwhelmed about my experience.
  • emotions impact on sales
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    Emotions and Their Impact on Sales
    Framing, Marketing & Branding
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    Buying decisions are heavily influenced by how they make us feel. Encourage your clients to talk about the story behind the art or family photos or memorabilia they are framing, because recounting great memories links those favorable emotions to the framing experience.
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    Daily Scorekeeping: Six Reasons it is Important for your Company
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    Six ways that goal setting and daily scorekeeping helps everyone involved - create motivated workers who produce better results and provide the right kind of feedback.
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    Maximizing Your E-Newsletter Program
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    The goal of any good email marketing program is to build relationships. Those who maximize their program add unique customer and community content, and make it a priority to grow their subscriber list.
  • show beats tell
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    Why Show Beats Tell
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    Knowing how the human brain works can help us become better sales people. Because picture framing is a visual experience, we can easily use examples instead of words to describe designs. The easier we make the decisions involved in custom framing, the better chance we have of engaging more customers.
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    Is it Time to Rethink How We Create Our Products?
    Framing, Improving Profits
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    Industries adapt and develop new ways to compete. The current choices in how moulding can be purchased offer our industry an opportunity to explore new options. Switching from length purchase to chop or chop/join saves a shop significant labor hours. Use our free worksheet to see if you could benefit from changing your purchasing model.
  • good things in business
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    Why Good Things Happen to SOME Businesses
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    Most business owners have one of two distinct outlooks on business. The first group blames external reasons on why things have not progressed well for their company. The second group talks about what THEY have to do to improve business. Take responsibility and watch success happen!
  • instant marketing program
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    Consistent, Effective Marketing - The Answer Is Here For 2018
    Framing, Marketing & Branding
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    Ready-to-go custom framing content for monthly emails, newsletters and websites – cut & paste into any format. Consistent communication builds business!
  • Does Your Message Have Value?
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    Communicating With Your Customers - Does Your Message Have Value?
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    Companies that provide a valuable message rarely lose the attention of their email subscribers because they offer something of value without asking for anything in return. The KB Instant Promotion Program can help you easily craft the right message for your subscribers.
  • Training Manuals
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    Why Your Company Needs a Training Program
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    Adding competent staff to your business doesn’t happen by accident. Like all successful programs, training others to serve your customers takes a structured and detailed plan. Here are several ways a training program benefits your company and the people who represent it.
  • International Moulding Open House 2017
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    WCAF 2018 Seminars - It's Time to plan your trip to Vegas
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    West Coast Art and Frame 2018 is almost here. Ken Baur of KB Consulting will be presenting a variety of seminars on the picture framing business at WCAF. Read the class list, and learn why your business needs a company manual.
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    Finding More Business
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    Need more customers? Most small businesses do, but they don’t have a plan for making it happen. Here are three ways you can help grow your customer base and find more business.
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    Remembering a Fun Project
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    The Tru Vue Retail Makeover project involved many different aspects of Larry and Rene’ Bauer’s framing business in Port Angeles, WA. This project teaches us what can be done to help framing shops grow, and the Bauers were the perfect choice to meet the challenge. I am lucky to be involved in so many businesses and the lives of the people who run them.
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    Withholding Choices – Why It’s Bad For Your Business
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    Framers believe offering expensive framing options hurts the perception of their business, but withholding options creates resentment and undermines trust. Selling premium framing products is about offering informed choices, not trying to upsell.