Highlights

2018 Annual Conference Highlights

Window Coverings Management class : Learn how to increase profit through better management. Discover the “Magic Number of Appointments” to yield the best profit.
Professional Window Covering Sales class : Attend the new, updated class to beat competition and increase your profit on every sale. Our customers have changed, our competition has changed, and our PWCS class has also changed.

National Advisory Meeting : Open session for Members to attend. Participate in the direction and future of Exciting Windows! Learn from others, offer your ideas.
Introductory Drapery Sales : Ideal for blinds / shades/ shutter sales consultants. Now you can move up to creative, big ticket sales. Create more repeat & referral customers.
Advanced Drapery Sales : Perfect for creative design consultants who want to design award winning drapery stylings.
Vendor Event : Exploring ideas for growth together with our key vendors. This is our chance to learn from our vendors and for us to let them know how much we value their support.
Reception : Visit with old friends and meet new Members.

Build a Winning Business Culture : Listen to 4 Leaders who’ve done it. They’ll tell you why! Learn how you will grow to the next level with the right culture.
Breakout sessions : Managed and Personal Businesses explore how good managers get good decorators, inspiring your team to sell products you want to sell and finding solutions to your biggest challenges. Oldies but goodies. In a world of technology, what have you forgotten that still works? Crank up proven, old ideas.
Motorization – two great classes that best fit your business needs
- Introductory Motorization : Hot products and brands you Must Know – Quick List: Learn all you need for those just beginning.
- Advanced Motorization : You know more than you think you do. Confidence is more important than product knowledge for those who are at advanced levels. Your Exciting Windows! Team will help you with details.
Lunch with your favorite Vendor
“WOW” Your customer – before the call, on the call, and after you leave! Close more sales, create raving fans, receive more referrals. Learn tips and tricks that make a difference
3 powerful ways to build a window coverings business : Panel of experts will lead a discussion on using technology, builders, and realtors to build your business.
Gala dinner and awards ceremony

Keynote Speaker- Mark Richardson - Future of Window Coverings : Author, speaker, columnist, and business growth expert has presented to thousands of business and sales leaders across the country. Richardson was named Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2006, and is a Fellow at Harvard University Joint Center for Housing Studies.
Future of the Window Coverings Industry : Breakout sessions address this critical issue - Will YOUR business prosper with intense new competition and complex digital marketing? Exploring changes in consumer shopping behavior and how this will impact how we sell, how we generate leads, and owner profit rewards.
How to use the Exciting Windows! brand to grow your business.
Roundtable discussions : Members share their experiences in addressing 3 important issues: reducing mistakes; recruiting and training decorators; and applying the 7-step sales process.
Lunch with your favorite Vendor

International Window Coverings Expo. IWCE attracts 3,000 attendees and 107 exhibitors to the window covering industry’s annual trade show and conference.
IWCE offers an expansive roster of educational seminars. Focuses on design, fabrication, and business, featuring some of the most experienced and well-known speakers in the industry.
Convenient Shuttle to the Tampa Convention Center when you pre-register