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Name: Amanda Wilson
Date registered: July 7, 2010

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  1. The Architectural Concepts Door Collection Advantage — May 7, 2025
  2. Three Tips to Navigate Shifting Market Conditions — May 5, 2025
  3. Opening the Door to a Rep Career — April 28, 2025
  4. Sliding Doors: An Enduring Choice — June 24, 2024
  5. Hotel Fire Door Violations: A Concern for Family Safety During Travel Season — June 10, 2024

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  3. Women like it firm! — 9 comments
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Mar 07

Celebrate Women in Construction Week

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It’s time to celebrate being a Woman In Construction. WIC Week is designed to increase the visibility of women working in the construction industry, share our passion and encourage others to join the construction industry and NAWIC.  The women of NAWIC know their specialty is inspiring success that instills confidence, develops leadership and increases knowledge.  Let’s use …

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Mar 02

Spring is in the Air!

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On a recent business trip to Savannah, Georgia spring fever was spreading throughout the city in epidemic proportions.  The distributor that I met with said that anything above 60 degrees gave him a bad case of it! March is a flurry of activity and events for Savannah and nearby Tybee Island.  There is the 3rd …

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Feb 24

A toast to Toastmasters

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It has come to my attention that I am a terrible “speaker”.  Sure, I can talk all day with family and friends ad nauseam but with a business presentation I have trouble.  When giving my product demonstration to prospective customers and architects I get nervous, my heart rate elevates and my mind goes blank.  I …

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Feb 22

Starting your own Door & Hardware Installation Business?

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“The Right Toolz 2-Use to Move, Install, Adjust and Maintain Commercial Doors And Hardware” What you DON’T KNOW will CO$T you! Skilled at Commercial Door & Hardware Installation? Thinking about starting your own installation business? There’s more to the Commercial Door and Hardware Installation business than just installing doors & hardware. If you’re skilled at …

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Feb 20

Waiting for the light at the end of the tunnel

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Last week was a crazy week of traveling and I am glad to be back in the office for a few days.   My trip took me to all corners of my territory meeting both with established distributors and prospective customers. The news is the same everywhere, bidding is picking up, plans to projects on hold …

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Feb 18

Southern Door & Plywood gets NWBOC certified

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Congratulations Southern Door & Plywood, Inc. for your recent certification as a business owned and controlled by a woman by the National Women Business Owners’ Corporation (NWBOC). “Certification provides a marketing opportunity for women business enterprises to participate in outreach programs,” says Dee Hendricks, President of Southern Door & Plywood.  “In addition, this program will …

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Feb 14

Steel Stiffened Doors, a thing of the past?

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This used to be an innovation… And this used to be an innovation… Steel stiffened doors have vertical stiffeners running from top to bottom edge to create a stronger steel door suited for high traffic areas. But, there are problems with Steel stiffened doors such as twisting  under pressure. Their vertical stiffeners mean strong pressure …

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Feb 09

Thanks Reed Connect!

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Wednesday I had a jobsite meeting with an architect that I initially made contact with through Reed Construction Data’s, Reed Connect.   I was searching for projects that would be perfect for a customer that I was “courting”. The meeting went great and I left with plans for two projects and a promise of a third.  …

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Feb 07

Short of a Stripper

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I once overhead an Architect say, in a very humdrum tone “another Lunch & Learn, you know what that means…pizza or sandwiches and a fight to keep my eyes open”. Following the AIA Continuing Education System guidelines, the learning portion of the Lunch & Learn is very structured.  There is not a lot room for …

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Feb 03

Stolen moments

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I am writing this post after a long day of business in Atlanta. My day started at 5:30 and considering there are hours of emails to be responded to and quoting to be done before bed I won’t see a pillow until 11:00. But what has me feeling reflective is the couple of hours that …

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Feb 01

What is Love?

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Wow, what a hard question for this week’s #letsblogoff.  Is love everything, or is love nothing at all.  Is it a noun or a verb?  Is it something you feel or something you do?  My friend Ginny and I asked ourselves these questions as we sat together to write this post. But, the questions were …

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Jan 27

Women Build!

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Last Saturday I had the pleasure of volunteering for Habitat 4 Humanity, Women Build.  It’s not the first time I have worked on a Habitat house and it won’t be the last.  I always have fun and learn a lot! Women Build is Habitat’s volunteer program for women who want to make a difference and …

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