Educational seminars set for market
By Furniture Today Staff -- Furniture Today, July 20, 2008
All seminars are held in the WHFA Retailer Resource Center on the 16th floor of WMC's Building B unless otherwise noted.
Sunday, July 27- Friday, August 1
8 a.m.-6 p.m.
Potterton Books
The legendary New York-based Potterton Books is the go-to bookstore at the Las Vegas Market for anything related to interior design. Design mavens will gain access to every single book in the English language on interior design. Building B, 2nd floor (B-280).
Monday, July 28- Friday, August 1
9 a.m.-6 p.m.
The Evolution of Las Vegas Hotel Interiors
Tour a photographic exhibition of hotel interiors from the 1950s El Rancho and Flamingo days through to today's The Wynn and into the future. Sponsored by WMC and Las Vegas Convention & Visitors Authority. Building C Atrium.
Monday, July 28
8:30-9:30 a.m.
Sustainable Furniture Council General Meeting
Overview, update and future plans, open to all current and potential members Location: Building C, Suites on C5, Living Green Pavilion.
9:30-10:30 a.m.
Greening Your Store #1: Products
A retailer and manufacturer round table focusing on the understanding, sourcing, and stocking of legitimately sustainable products. Gain essential insight into the issues related to raw materials, manufacturing processes and transportation, as well as green trends, what sells and what doesn't, and how and where to get started by category. A great foundation to get you up to speed before you begin shopping at market. Sponsored by SFC and WMC. Building C, 5th floor, Living Green Pavilion.
10-11 a.m.
The Forecast: Color for the HomeKate Smith, Sensational Color
Join Smith, Sensational Color founder and 2008 Color Marketing Group event chairwoman, for an engaging and informative presentation about current color trends influencing the home sector. A host of external factors influence the rise in popularity of a certain color, and Smith knows which ones have the greatest impact on upcoming product palettes. Learn about the key colors for 2009. Sponsored by WMC and FurnitureStyle. Building B, 16th floor, World Forum.
10-11:30 a.m.
He Shops, She Shops... Differently
Rich Kizer & Georganne Bender, Kizer & Bender Speaking!
Men and women are different. But you would never know it by the way some retailers run their stores. A woman requires more from her stores of choice than a man does, but whatever changes you make to accommodate her, he will also appreciate. He just won't tell you. This is not just an ordinary seminar on how you can attract female shoppers. Learn up-to-the-minute strategies to use immediately to ready your store for both male and female shoppers.
Noon-1 p.m.
Growing Your Business
When Facing Challenging Conditions
Philip Gutsell, GutSELL & Associates
Come learn the seven strategic steps you can take to profitably increase your business: increasing your advertising in key areas, converting and remodeling unproductive displays, expanding your showroom, converting warehouse into display, buying out competitors, moving to a new location, and the No. 1 way to grow your business with minimal investment. Discover the necessary steps to expand your thinking, business and profits. Hear the case studies of clients that met these challenges and are still growing today.
1-2 p.m.
The New World of Green Upholstery
A detailed report on the state of the green movement in upholstery, the #1 furniture category. Discussion will center on innovations in frames, foams, fabrics and manufacturing. Included is a panoramic view of styles, trends, cost differences, and specific products available at market. Sponsored by World Market Center and the Sustainable Furnitue Council. Building C, 5th floor, Living Green Pavilion.
1:30-4:30 p.m.
10 Power Ideas to Keep Your Customers Close
Rich Kizer & Georganne Bender, Kizer & Bender Speaking!
There's a celebrated saying in the retail industry: If you don't make dust, you eat dust. To be competitive today you have to be the dust maker, doing things that both surprise and delight your customers. You also have to do those surprising and delightful things on a consistent basis. This seminar focuses on 10 things you can do right now to keep your customers close. You'll learn how to treat your customers like guests; why it's the customer's definition that counts, not yours; easy ways to exceed customer expectaions; how to anticipate customer needs; and stealth marketing tactics your competition can't trace. You'll leave this seminar armed with the strategies, tactics, tips and techniques to help you keep your customers closer than ever before.
3-4 p.m.
Vegas Kids Insight
Greta Goss, interior designer
A specialist in how places and spaces affect behavior, Goss is part design psychologist, part home life coach, part space guru and part storyteller. Join her as she explores the topic of furnishing a child's room and provides practical techniques for overcoming home design challenges from an environmental-behavioral point of view. Sponsored by WMC and Vegas Kids. Building A, 9th floor, Vegas Kids.
3:30-5 p.m.
Legacy 1.0: Surviving Generational Change
David Lively, The Lively Merchant
Four out of five family-owned businesses are led by their founders, but 40% will change hands in the next five years. You'll hire lawyers and accountants to plan your estate, but will your company survive? In Legacy 1.0, you'll learn barriers to communicating transfers of authority, the importance of transition planning and organizational stability, and the Seven C's of Intergenerational Leadership.
4-5 p.m.
Proven Practices & New Product Trends that Maintain Sales in a Tight Economy
Moderator: Jena Hall, Aspenhome
Panelists: Lori Kelley, DMI; Loreen Epp, Room Planners; Nancy Dogra, Razmataz, and Henessy Wayser, French Heritage
WithIt presents a panel of experienced leaders from home furnishings retail, furniture manufacturing, and accessories that will address the top proven ways to manage during a slow economy. Included on this panel will be a trend advisor addressing how color and other design tricks can help you close the deal. This event is open and important to buyers, designers, retail store owners, sales representatives and manufacturers. Join us for an afternoon reception of wine and appetizers, networking and a moment to relax while gathering invaluable tips that support your bottom line. WithIt is an international organization dedicated to the support and development of female professionals in the home industries. Sponsored by WMC. Building B, 16th floor, World Forum.
Tuesday, July 29
8:30-9:30 a.m.
Export Experts
Frank Martoccia, foreign exchange specialist
When doing business internationally, fluctuations in exchange rates can negatively impact your costs and profit margin. As a result, actively managing this risk is essential to your business. Hedging solutions like forward contracts and options can effectively reduce foreign currency risk and preserve your bottom line. Due to the weak dollar there are options such as Multi Currency Accounts, where you can receive funds and send payables in another currency without having to convert to U.S. dollars. Letters of credit are a safe payment alternative option that limits the risk of both the importer and the exporter. Attend the seminar to learn more about ways to reduce your risk when doing business internationally. Sponsored by WMC and Wells Fargo Bank. Building B, B-908.
8:30-9:30 a.m.
Identity Crisis in Cyberspace — the Cause and the Cure
Linda Forte, CDS Solutions Group
Craft your Web site to connect with your target market, fulfill your customers' needs, and differentiate yourself from your competition. Remember, image is power — and “cyber-anonymity” can wreak havoc on a business. The personality of your Web site (or lack thereof) is vital. Online marketing has much in common with interpersonal face-to-face marketing. Your Web site can be your top salesperson — or wipe out potential revenue with just one click. Find out how to overcome the two biggest obstacles to success — invisibility and lack of credibility, by designing, implementing, and maintaining a truly effective Web site that sends both conscious and subconscious image-marketing messages tailored to your audience.
9:30-10:30 a.m.
Greening Your Store #2: Marketing
A roundtable of retailers and marketing experts round focusing on effective ways of educating staff and customers on the importance of sustainability, product differences, operational iniitiatives, and their benefits. Learn how to identify undiscovered sustainability platforms in your current business, avoid common pitfalls, express what you are doing in compelling ways to drive traffic and sales, and promote your efforts while avoiding “greenwashing.” The seminar covers the essential next step in gaining maximum benefit from your progress toward sustainability. Building C, 5th floor, Living Green Pavilion.
10-11 a.m.
The Forecast: TrendWatch Live!
Michelle Lamb, Marketing Directions
This trend expert will share her top color and design trends for home décor, then answer questions. Sponsored by WMC and Accessory Merchandising. Building B, 16th floor, World Forum.
10-11:30 a.m.
Why Sales Management in Most Stores
Is Just Not Working — and What to Do about It
Iris & Jay Byers, Byers Guide
Identify sales management changes you can make now that will increase your sales performance. Understand the role of today's coach versus manager, and key elements of their success. Learn how coaching benefits your sales staff and today's demanding consumers.
Noon-1 p.m.
WOW Your Bedding Customer!
Gerry Morris, SleepTrust Guarantee
Discover how to get consumers to buy in a slow economy by turning reluctant customers into raving advocates. Learn the best tips and techniques guaranteed to increase sales. This seminar will delivering fresh ideas and new selling concepts to owners, managers and retail sales associates across the country.
1-2 p.m.
The New World of Green Interiors
A continuing education credit course in the practical application of green design in residential projects. Intended for professional interior designers as well as store owners and key personnel who are involved in more comprehensive design projects in the home. Topics will include green furniture, mattresses, bedding, and textiles, as well as energy and carbon footprint reduction and important health issues. Prepare yourself to meet this rising consumer demand. Building C, 5th floor, Living Green Pavilion.
1:30-3 p.m.
Removing the Invisible Killer — Lost Sales
Brad Huisken, IAS Training
This fun and motivational seminar will detail powerful ways to maximize your traffic, sales, and profits. In today's retail environment, people come into a furniture store not necessarily looking for furniture. Customers are looking for a place and a person from whom to buy products. With the competition increasing from mass merchandisers, other retailers, the Internet, catalogs, and other places where customers can spend their disposable income, retailers must learn how to sell themselves and the store. We can no longer sit back and wait for customers to come to us; we have to do something to get them to come back repeatedly. Huisken will share strategies on how salespeople can help “brand” the store, telephone campaigns, three responsibilities of a salesperson, company stories, customer follow-up, analyzing lost sales and much more.
2-4 p.m.
International Retail Store
Design Trends
Martin Roberts, Grid II
Learn current international retail design trends from Asia, Dubai, Europe and the United States. Sponsored by WMC. Building B, 16th floor, World Forum.
2-3 p.m.
Redefining Luxury in the West
Michael Wollaeger, Western Interiors & Design Magazine
A new kind of luxury is emerging in the West and is influencing the global marketplace. It's less about excess and more about connection with the natural world. From furniture to materials to interior design to architecture, true luxury has taken on a surprising new dimension in the West and the world is taking notice. Sponsored by WMC and Western Interiors & Design Magazine. Building C, 3rd Floor (C316), LVDC Seminar Room.
3-4 p.m.
The New Western Style — What is it? How do you create it?
Pamela Kelly, Museum of New Mexico Foundation
Kelly, director of licensing for the Museum of New Mexico Foundation, will explain how to successfully partner with historic properties, and bring integrity and volume to merchandising and marketing efforts. Sponsored by WMC. Building C, 13th floor, Lodge Living.
3-4 p.m.
Furniture Recycling
Joe Stalnaker, Avangard Innovative
Linda Ayre, Quilts for Kids
Learn how to effectively start a recycling program. Discover how to produce new revenue from your packaging materials while reducing hauling and disposal costs. Discuss options for transporting loose materials inside your warehouse that will reduce your handling costs. Learn successfully proven techniques used in limited warehouse space situations. Hear about the newest recycling program, “Blanket of Hope,” a partnership between Avangard Innovative, Swift, SFC and the charity Quilts for Kids.org. Your excess fabric samples will now benefit many children in need as well as avoid filling landfills. Quilts for Kids Founding President Linda Ayre will also speak and will be available to answer questions during this session. Sponsored by WMC and Living Green Pavilion. Building C, 5th floor, Living Green Pavilion.
3-4 p.m.
New Rules of Retailing: Success in a Stressful Market
Jeff Hiller, PROaction Marketing Group
An intensive workshop offering specific, practical guidance for companies of all sizes on how to market, merchandise, and make sales in the current world. Emphasis will be on traditional and digital advertising strategy, media negotiation, in-store tracking, closing techniques, increasing tickets, and market trends, supported by consumer research. The “new marketing” segment will cover overall budgeting, vehicle trend analysis, media mix percentage allocations (brand vs. promotional, by vehicle), effective scheduling, negotiation strategies, and other topics. The “new selling” segment will cover benchmarking, sales goals, traffic counts, relationship selling, close rates and strategies, capturing customer information and effective follow up. Sponsored by WMC and Living Green Pavilion. Building B, 16th floor, World Forum.
4-5 p.m.
Selling Green: How to Avoid Greenwashing
Jeff Hiller, PROaction Marketing Group
A detailed explanation of what legitimately green means in home furnishings, including essential differences in components, manufacturing, and operations as well as definitions of terms, supplemented by real world examples. Learn how to properly label your efforts and to interpret claims made by others at all points of the supply chain. Get a clear picture of the state of sustainability in our industry based on exclusive consumer research that probes awareness, interest, and willingness to pay, and make yourself the expert for your staff and customers. This seminar tackles the nitty gritty of exactly what terms mean such as sustainable vs. eco-friendly vs. green, FSC vs. SFI, recycled vs. recyclable, latex vs. bio hybrid, water-based vs. other finishes, etc. It also includes results of some new custom research that gauges consumer awareness, interest and price premiums. Sponsored by WMC and Living Green Pavilion. Building B, 16th floor, World Forum.
Wednesday, June 30
8:30-9:30 a.m.
The Youth Industry: An Untapped Market
Lisa Casinger, Kids Today
Get exclusive research on the growth potential in the youth industry, highlights from the magazine's HGTV consumer survey and current trends in the industry. Sponsored by WMC and Kids Today. Building A, 9th floor, Vegas Kids.
8:30-9:30 a.m.
Effective Market Research Equals Success
Brian Crozier, CDS Solutions Group
Effective marketing doesn't come naturally to most businesses. When reaching out to customers, many companies describe what the products are, explain how their products are better, and why customers should buy them. This is also how most salespeople make sales presentations. Too often, they leave out the part about how the product benefits the customer. But the only time the customer is ever interested is when you tell him how the products will improve his or her life. You can't highlight your product's benefits if you don't know what your customers want. That's where market research comes in. This seminar explores simple research methods to learn more about what your customers really want and to better understand why they want it.
9:30-10:30 a.m.
Greening Your Store #3: Operations
This retailer and operations experts roundtable will focus on best sustainability practices in your business apart from products, including energy reduction, recycling, warehouse handling and delivery. Learn how to cut your energy consumption by 20%, start an effective recycling program, eliminate waste in sample replacement, efficient handling of loose materials, optimize use of a limited warehouse space, and minimize transport expense at all points in the supply chain. The goal is to save money and reduce your carbon footprint all at the same time. Building C, 5th floor, Living Green Pavilion.
10-11:30 a.m.
Fear or Fearless? The Choice is Yours!
Doug Knorr, Knorr Marketing
With today's doom and gloom headlines of mortgage foreclosures and lower consumer confidence levels, it is evident that the retail landscape has changed. What worked a few years ago isn't working today. This change has caused many retailers to become fearful of what tomorrow may bring. Learn how to address the changes we are seeing today and how to turn fear into fearlessness. Discuss four simple steps you can take to assure your success even in today's difficult retail climate. Learn how to differentiate your company from the competition, reduce costs, know where to invest your advertising and how to hold it accountable, and build more loyal customers.
10-11:30 a.m.
The Forecast: The Art of Lighting for Homes
Randall Whitehead, lighting expert and author
Learn how lighting can influence a space positively and negatively; enhance color and texture; emphasize depth or dimension; and combine comfort with drama. Plus, Whitehead will share best practices in creating energy-efficient lighting solutions for indoor and outdoor living spaces. Sponsored by WMC and FurnitureStyle. Building B, 16th floor, World Forum.
Noon-1 p.m.
A New Calendar: One Year's Worth
of Display and Promotion Ideas
Mary Liz Curtin, Leon & Lulu
Your store's promotion calendar should be as full as Scarlett O'Hara's dance card to maximize your fourth quarter profits. Join Mary Liz Curtin for a look at her new calendar, based on a schedule of promotions, special events and marketing ideas. In addition, you will learn tips and tricks for publicizing and promoting the happenings in your store. Bring your ideas, too — prizes will be awarded for the best ideas.
1-2 p.m.
Aging in Place: Housing & Services
Jane M. Rohde, JSR Associates
What are you anticipating as you grow older? It certainly is not going to be bingo in the afternoons, while sitting on a plastic slip cover in a badly lit space with no access to an outside garden! This program, by the principal of design services provider JSR, outlines the mindset of future generations and the desire to age in place. Information will be shared from a case study with Jackie Sunderland Finer and her husband, Leslie Finer, who designed and built a universally designed home. Their goal was to have a care model that allows them to live at home and have as much independence and dignity as they continue to experience their very full lives. This is an opportunity to share and learn about the joys of designing for elders and a sneak preview into what all of us would want for our families and ourselves in the future. Sponsored by WMC and International Interior Design Assn. Building B, 16th floor, World Forum.
2:15-3:15 p.m.
Why Designers Are (and Should Be) at the Helm of Spreading the Sustainable Word
Carol Baumgartel, American Clay Enterprises
Learn the importance of interior designers in the greater scheme of sustainable design. Being green is not just about low VOCs, it's about sustainability in the living systems, and the impact of that conversation on how designers specify options in conversations with their clientele. Today, customers are often better educated in and curious about green options. This talk touches on the whole interior space and indoor air quality, from flooring, walls, substrates (formaldehyde or not), what really is a zero-VOC wall finish, and how some manufacturers greenwash in their claims. Begin to learn how to ask the right questions about the manufacturers of these products, including how committed are they to the environment and sustainability. Sponsored by WMC. Building B, 16th floor, World Forum.
1:30-2 p.m.
Rock Your Inventory!
David McMahon, PROFITconsulting, PROFITsystems
Would you like an extra $370,000 per year from your inventory? This is the difference between a high profit operation and an average operation. With respect to GMROI, a 37 cent difference produces an extra $370,000 in gross margin dollars per million invested in inventory. You can increase cash flow even if sales are sluggish. Hear what the best managers do to maximize the return on their inventory and stay cash flow positive. Rock your inventory — don't let it rock you!
2-3 p.m.
The Many Scales of Green
Susan Szenasy, Metropolis Magazine
A visiting lecturer at New York's Parsons School of Design, Szenasy is a passionate and influential advocate for sustainable design. Sponsored by LVDC, Living Green Pavilion. Building C, 3rd Floor (C-316), LVDC Seminar Room.
3-4 p.m.
E-mail Marketing Done Right — A Case Study
Ken Mahar, Axis 24/7 Marketing
Find out why e-mail marketing is the hottest sales tool available today. Your previous customers and their friends are a gold mine that you are ignoring if you are not personally staying in touch on a monthly basis, and e-mail marketing is the most cost-effective way to do that. In this challenging economy, using the most cost-effective marketing tool that has a huge response rate makes sense — but it's not easy. See how Mor Furniture has created a world-class campaign and is reaping rewards. Bring a business card for a free demo and a chance at a door prize.
4 p.m.
The Future of Sleep: The Specialty Sleep Assn. at Work
Dale Read, Specialty Sleep Assn.
The specialty sleep segment of the industry continues to grow, and Dale Read, president of the SSA, will explain where the segment has been, where it's going, and how it's accomplishing its goals. Dippin Dots ice cream will be served. WMC C-1350.
4:30-5 p.m.
Your Salespeople Need Your Help
Joe Milevsky, JRM Sales & Management
Every customer is precious. Learn to help your salespeople maximize their potential with every customer interaction by finding, interviewing and hiring the right salespeople for your company's culture; training and coaching; properly setting sales goals; using measurements to coach improved salesperson performance; creating a positive and fun selling environment; learning the keys to developing and keeping top performers; and dramatically improving your company's sales performance.
Thursday, July 31
8:30-9:30 a.m.
Capturing the Value Driven Customer
John Egger, Profitability Consulting Group
How do you get the value driven customer in your store? How do you make the sale? How do you keep them returning? This is a tough market but some furniture retailers are doing fine by maximizing their customers' assets and keeping the traffic count up. Learn what other retailers are doing to be successful in today's slow economy.
9:30-10:30 a.m.
China: Friend or Foe?
Cameron Cook, DMC
Considering the flood of technology, Internet, and an American frame of mind and leadership, is China our friend or foe when it comes to investing in overseas product development? Just how soon will it be until China becomes the dominant market player, and will it? Listen to, learn from and ask questions of an industry protégé about her experience in product development and manufacturing overseas in China. Sponsored by WMC. Building B, 16th floor, World Forum.
10-11:30 a.m.
Designers and Green Design
Dann Foley, Dann Foley Design
How do we keep up? More importantly, how do we make money with “green?” This seminar will give discerning designers more insight, tips and sources on the topic of green design. Learn the sales techniques to encourage your clients to live better lives with green products and bring your clients the highest quality and most sustainable products on the market. Gain valuable information to go green and make more green.
11 a.m.-noon
Design In Common: Global Trends
in Today's Residential Interiors
Mary Gilliatt, designer and author
What influences on residential interior design are unifying people from Auckland to Dubai, from Sydney to Provence, and from London to Milan and Manhattan? Author of nearly 50 books on design, Gilliatt has been an influential fixture in the design world since the 1950s and shows no sign of slowing down. She's a frequent contributor to monthly shelter magazines around the world, currently writing for a New Zealand publisher and for Arabic magazine, Hia. Since 1998, she has led design education for U.S. decorating franchisor Décor & You and she's on the team developing the new DecorRoom brand. She spends part of every year in Dubai working to establish the emirate's first design school. She has just completed a book on entertaining, scheduled for U.S. release in fall. Following the presentation, Gilliat will be available during a wine and cheese reception to sign copies of her newest book, “Bedrooms: Creating and Decorating the Room of Your Dreams.” Sponsored by WMC and Décor & You. Building B, 16th floor, World Forum.
11 a.m.-noon
Let's Go Green! But How Green and at What Pace?
Charlotte Matthews, The Related Cos.
Learn about The Related Cos.' process for setting its goals and metrics for “going green.” The company are one of the largest property developers in the United States with $8 billion in projects under way. Sponsored by WMC. Building C, 3rd Floor (C-316), LVDC Seminar Room.
Noon-1 p.m.
Color Stimulates Sales
Margie Kyle, The Designing Doctor
Understanding the power of color is the key to increasing sales. Retailers, vendors and designers can all learn from the trends that are driving this new world that is rich and vibrant with color. Now more than ever, customers are inspired by palettes that appeal to their dramatic or playful lifestyles. Every sale starts with color — come and explore its direction up to 2010.
1-2 p.m.
Evolution: The Architecture and Interiors of Historic Las Vegas Resorts
Libby Lumpkin, Las Vegas Art Museum, and Brian Paco Alvarez, Las Vegas News Bureau Photo & Film Archives
Watch a fascinating slide show of rare, archival photographs of the interiors of iconic, mid-century Las Vegas resort architecture. See the elements of design that made the Flamingo and the Tropicana the most buzzed about hotels of that era and discover the architects behind these masterpieces of mid-century modern. Sponsored by LVDC. Building B, 16th floor, World Forum.
1:30-3 p.m.
18 Great, Creative Advertising Ideas
Sally Morse, Hunter Douglas
Do you spend the bulk of your advertising budget on newspaper advertising, and just advertise discounts? Learn who your customers are and how to target your advertising to attract the right customer for your business. Learn 18 great ideas that are low-cost and work better than just advertising discounts. What is room-of-the-month and limo lunch? These are just two of the fun ideas that will be unveiled. Discover how to track sales and find out what advertising ideas work best for you.
2:30-4 p.m.
Design Icon Series
Larry Laslo, designer
This is the second installment of World Market Center's Design Icon Series — where design legends share their stories and experiences to inspire tomorrow's designers. Laslo's legendary interior landscapes have been showcased in top interior design and architecture publications around the world. He hosted QVC's “Larry Laslo Home Show” for five years and launched “Larry Laslo for The Robert Allen Group” in 2007. Laslo has also created furniture collections for John Widdicomb, Ferguson Copeland and Directional; china for Mikasa and Royal Limoges; lighting for Frederick Cooper; art for Rosenbaum; and pottery for Haeger to name just a few, and his collections are sold at Tiffany & Co., Horchow Catalogue, Harrods, Bloomingdale's and Neiman Marcus. Laslo will discuss highlights of his life as a designer, his sources of inspiration and the business of design. Sponsored by WMC, LVDC and The Robert Allen Group. Building C, 3rd Floor (C-316), LVDC Seminar Room.
3-4 p.m.
Shop Talk: Green Retailers Forum
Dennis Rose; Contemporary Design Group members; and Jon Dougal
Questions we ask, answers we look for and other ways in which we lower our carbon footprint and increase awareness. Building C, 5th floor, Living Green Pavilion.
3:30-4:30 p.m.
The 12 Most Important Elements Needed to Build a Profitable Retail Organization
Ron Wolinski, Profitability Consulting Group
Are you too busy trying to do business that you don't have time to manage your business? Are you trying to do everything yourself? Are your old process and procedures no longer working? Are you just putting out fires, rather than progressing? We will discuss the 12 key elements to building a profitable and successful organization. You will receive a road map on how to transition into a growing organization that's goal related, not task related.
7-10 p.m.
Atomic Age Tour of Las Vegas
Mary-Margaret Stratton, Atomic Age Alliance
Get a personal guided bus tour of iconic mid-century Las Vegas architecture, both commercial and residential. Stop for cocktails at The Peppermill and Golden Steer. Open air vintage bus. $30 per person. Reservations required by sending an e-mail to events@lasvegasmarket.com. Sponsored by LVDC. Off-site tour.
Friday, August 1
9:30-10:30 a.m.
First Friday — Luxury Design Without Limits
Roger Thomas, The Wynn Hotel Group
Come experience five-star design through the eyes of award winning designer Thomas. The creative genius behind the world famous Bellagio and Wynn hotels, he has the self-described distinction of being the only designer “that can overspend an unlimited budget.” His designs and over-the-top luxury have mesmerized the world and have taken Las Vegas hospitality to new heights. Thomas has been selected to the Hospitality Design Platinum Circle and was recently honored as one of Architectural Digest's Top 100 designers. His presentation will take you through the creative process and execution of the one the world finest hotels, Wynn Las Vegas. Sponsored by LVDC. Building C, 3rd Floor (C316), LVDC Seminar Room.
9:30-10:30 a.m.
World of Good: A Radical New Model for Retail
Ella Silverman, Project Good/eBay
Lean why eBay bought World of Good, a new, multi-seller, online marketplace for people-positive products. Sponsored by WMC and SFC. Building C, 5th floor, Living Green Pavilion.
10 a.m.-3 p.m.
Designer Workshop — Designers Master's Class
Lloyd Princeton, Design Management Company
In these lean economic times, the last thing you need as an interior designer is a class on color theory. What you need are tips and tools to give yourself a competitive edge in a tough market. This half-day Master's Class session provides valuable, practical instruction on the topics critical to growing an interior design business, including:
Marketing — Attracting the clients you really want; Pricing — Charging the most you can do for each client; and Sales — Effectively selling product and service, after the contract is signed. This program is open to all interior designers and costs $100. It is an accredited program and designers will earn 0.4 Continuing Education Units. Sponsored by Western Home Furnishings Assn., National Home Furnishings Assn., the WMC and the Interior Design Society.
10:30-noon
WithIt/SFC Student Mentoring Program
Susan Inglis, Sustainable Furniture Council
and Sara Lyke, Women in the Home Inds. Today
Mentoring partnership opportunity for students of design to tour showrooms who manufacture sustainable home furnishings and are members of the Sustainable Furniture Council. Building C, 5th floor, Living Green Pavilion.
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