The Power of AI Meeting Note-Takers: A Real-Life Designer Story

The Power of AI Meeting Note-Takers: A Real-Life Designer StoryDiscover how one Kitchen & Bath designer transformed client meetings using AI-powered note-taking tools. In this episode, we explore a real-world case study showin...

Picking Your Go-to AI Tool: The Ultimate Guide to Making the Right Choice

The AI tool landscape shifts weekly. New models launch, existing ones get upgraded, and every vendor claims they're the solution you need.If you're feeling overwhelmed by the choices, you're not alone. The paradox of AI tools is that the...

Understanding AI Limitations: Navigating Bias, Privacy, and Reliability in Your Business

As we explore the expanding world of Artificial Intelligence, it’s vital to acknowledge that while AI opens up a realm of possibilities, it also comes with its own set of limitations and challenges. Today, we get into some critical consideratio...

AI as Your Business's New Search Engine: Moving Beyond Google for Efficient Information Retrieval

This season, we’ll be alternating episodes between learning about AI's potential in the Kitchen & Bath design businesses and taking concrete steps to harness that potential. Today, let’s get into a practical first step: how to begin using A...

Kickstarting Your Business with AI: A Beginner's Guide to Maximizing Efficiency

Walking into the world of artificial intelligence doesn't require getting tangled up in daunting technical details. Let's focus on what really matters for your business.AI systems are like extremely adept learners—absorbing massive amoun...

What do Kitchen & Bath Design Businesses do with AI?

This season of Elevated is all about answering the question "What do Kitchen & Bath Design Businesses do with AI?" We'll cover improving your profitability and sanity using AI, automation, systems, and workflows. It's time to harness the po...

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Sales Process Documentation: Why It's Non-Negotiable

Brandy's armchair theory: there are two types of entrepreneurs, diagnosed ADHD and undiagnosed ADHD. Neither type is known for being fastidious about organization, and don't even get her started on the documentation thing.So the steps s...

Sales System Health Checks And Why You Need One

Kitchen and Bath Sales System FAQs: Cost, CRM, and Proposals

Three showroom friends gave you three opinions on which CRM to buy, and you're still not sure any of them fit a four-person showroom.Part of the trouble is that a sales system gets mixed up with the software that runs it. Software can s...

How to Train Your Team on a Sales System

Sales System Training: 4 Steps to Team Adoption (+ AI to Accelerate Learning)Your team is jaded. They've sat through countless software implementations promising to make life easier but requiring weeks of painful learning curves. ...

How to Get Your Team to Use Your Sales System

How can you get your team to use your sales system? It's a common problem. Backing up a step, so far this season on Elevated we’ve covered why you need a sales system, how to use the sales system, the info and insights a sales syst...

Unlocking Sales Power: How Your Email Signature Can Transform Your Kitchen & Bath Design Business

5 Ways a Sales System Benefits a Designer

Revolutionize Your Kitchen & Bath Design Business with Advanced Sales Systems

CRM for Kitchen and Bath Designers: Every Client Conversation in One Place

Your lead designer is home sick. The client she's been emailing all month calls the showroom asking whether the vanity went on order, and the answer sits in an inbox nobody else can open. So someone guesses, or promises a callback that turns in...

Streamlining Client Engagement: The Power of Scheduling Links for Kitchen & Bath Designers

Paradise by the Dashboard Light? Getting Metric Visibility in Your Sales System

Mastering KPIs: Your Secret Recipe for Kitchen & Bath Success

KPIs are like the variables in your equation for reaching your revenue or other business goals. Whether you're aiming to boost revenue, enhance profitability, or refine your overall business operations, these key performance indicators act as y...

Boosting Your Kitchen & Bath Business: The Magic of Sales Metrics

What exactly happens when one of your crucial KPIs starts showing signs of distress, or when you're thinking about increasing ad spend or investing more in marketing efforts? That's where additional metrics come into play, offering an in-depth ...

From Data to Dollars: How KPIs Turbocharge Your Kitchen & Bath Design Sales

By now you’ve heard me mention the importance of sales systems approximately a gazillion times (okay, not that many, but I talk about it a lot), and how they can transform your kitchen and bath design business into a well-oiled profit machine.

Maximizing Profit: Unleashing the Power of Sales System Data

Let’s talk about the art of using sales system data to drive your kitchen and bath design business forward. Systems are incredibly powerful, but sometimes the challenge lies in knowing what to do with all the information once you’ve got it....

Do You Need a CRM? 4 Ways to Build a Kitchen and Bath Sales System

Your designer opens the lead spreadsheet to update a client's budget. You opened it ten minutes earlier to add a new inquiry. One of those changes is gone, and nobody notices until the client calls.Plenty of kitchen and bath owners hear...

Sales Success Starts with Data: Mastering Lead Information Tracking for K&B

Tracking relevant information for a lead is essential in the Kitchen & Bath design business to ensure effective client relations and sales. Some additional key information to track includes:Project budgetType of project...

Kitchen and Bath Designer Leads: Stop Giving Two Hours to the Wrong People

The showroom phone rings twice before lunch. One caller asks whether you take appointments. The other books Thursday at ten. On the list by the front desk, both get written down the same way: new lead.Isn't a lead a lead? Yes and no. Wh...