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ARTICLES BY KITTY STEIN

2006

• Our Value
• Crisis Preparation
• Yours, Mine or Ours?
• The Haystack of Needles
• The Wisdom of Acceptance
• Hand-Sewing with Ease
• What Was to What Is
• We Love Our Customers
• Build Your Knowledge by Sharing
• Take Your Knowledge on the Road
• Get Ready...Get Set...Present!
• So You Want to Write a Book

2005

• Old But New Tools
• Digital Cameras and Window Photography
• Enhancing Your Portfolio
• Business Mistakes
• Success Traits
• Part 1: Streamline your Office
• Part 2: Streamline your Office
• Cascade Points
• To Return or Not to Return?
• Leading Your Lead Time
• The Workroom Employee Identity
• A Time to Plan, A Time to Coast

2004

• It's In The Drawer!
• Diversity In Education
• It's Show Season
• Organization-Based Communication
• Distance Planning for Shows
• Window Coverings Software Everywhere!
• Climbing to the High-end of the Ladder
• High-End Touches
• From Single to Multiple Layers
• Stress: The Mental Pressure We Create
• Inner Steps to Outer Moves
• Making Your Workroom Work

2003

• Pricing Guidelines
• Business Is Down But You Don’t Have To Be
• Vocabulary Embellishments
• Growing Your Business
• Customers, Friends, Foes Or Teachers?
• Buying (or Selling) A Business
• Have Mercy!
• Teaching The Professional
• Technique Diversity
• Why?

2002

• Change Is Absolute
• Working with Designers
• Sometimes Life Gets in the Way
• Yes, There Is a Need
• Growing Your Business
• Computers Before Industrial Sewing Machines
• Keeping a Handle on Computer Technology
• The Education of a Trade Show Vendor
• Give Your Clients Kisses
• Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

2001

• Workrooms and Web Sites
• Making Your Workroom Healthy
• Retail COM, What a Liability!
• Twelve Steps to a Profitable and Successful Business
• Living and Working in Balance
• Separating the Wheat from the Chaff
• TLC and Passion
• The Value of Acronyms
• It's a Matter of Integrity
• A Time To Think

2000

• Workrooms, It's Time for a Survey!
• An Attitude Adjustment
• Tunnel Vision Can Be an Asset
• History Doesn't Have to Repeat Itself
• Workroom Survey Results
• Workroom Survey Results
• Workroom Survey Results
• Using Crystal Ball
• Speaking of Raises
• To Stick or Not to Stick
• Stick With Efficiency
• Designers and Workrooms

1999

• What's in a Title?
• Part 1: The C's for Success
• Part 2: The C's for Success
• Reining In Runaway Production
• Workroom Quality Standards
• Professionalism: The Asset That Works!
• From Hobbyist to CEO
• Ten Questions that Matter
• Education Is the Key to Credibility and Profit
• A Book a Day Keeps the Profit Rolling In!
• Workroom Operations: Essential Efficient Equipment
• More Time-saving Equipment and Tools

1998

• A Letter to My Client
• Prints: What the Book Doesn't Tell You
• Print and Treatment Analysis
• Prints: Conquering and Cutting
• Train to Gain!
• Room to Grow
• Profit by Mentoring
• Investing in Mind Power
• Mastering the Unknown-Part 1
• Mastering the Unknown-Part 2
• The Quest for New Suppliers, Products
• Product Safety for Soft Window Coverings

1997

• Networking
• Prints with Power
• Let's Talk Sewing Machines
• Specialty Sewing Machines -- Beyond the Basics
• So You Want to Sew Faster?
• Part 1: Equipment for the Growing Drapery Workroom
• Part 2: Equipment for the Growing Drapery Workroom
• But I Can't Affort that Equipment
• Don't Just Be Better, Be Exceptional!
• Pricing: The Agony and the Ecstacy

1996

• Part 1: Every Workroom Needs One
• Part 2: Every Workroom Needs One
• Just How Valuable Are You?
• Workroom Basics
• Think Before You Hire
• Customers! What a Challenge!
• Communication
• Stop, In the Name of Business