By K. Schipper
NEW YORK – A fire at The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine one week before Christmas 2001 certainly wasn’t the worst calamity to befall New Yorkers that year – but the effects lingered long after city firefighters left the building.
By K. Schipper
EVANSVILLE, Ind. – Defining Cutting Edge Granite isn’t easy.
By K. Schipper
If you’re at a loss on how to sell thin-veneer natural stone to customers, try going inside.
Hidden in the rugged Hindu Kush and the Pamir mountain ranges of Afghanistan, there’ a great wealth of mineral resources: deposits of some of the world’s finest marble.
By Tom McNall
So here’s the deal: Your sales are down, you’re competing against new guys in the business (and the old ones who just won’t die) giving away countertops for $20 ft² and doing shoddy work, and one look at your payments get you thinking about how long you can keep going.
Now stop, clear your head, and ponder this question instead: “How do I apply what I already know to make more money?”
MATERIALS SEMI-PRECIOUS STONESMarble of the World, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., introduces the Exotica Semi-Precious Collection, featuring 19 unique colors and designs, each hand-made from individually cut-and-bound semi-precious stones. The collection is suited for both residential...
Early in Citzen Kane, Wall Street baron Walter Thatcher rolls his eyes when his financial ward, Charles Foster Kane, instructs him not to sell the New York Examiner, a struggling back-marker of a daily – because, in Kane’s work, “I think it would be fun to run a newspaper.”
Mr. Kane, meet the world of 2009. It ain’t fun anymore.
One of the questions I hear the most at jobsites from homeowners and contractors alike is: “That stuff must be pretty heavy, eh?” (Or, where I’m at now in the South, “Reckon that stuff must be right heavy?”)
Editor’s note: A Sept. 1 update to this blog includes new links to various reports, and a Aug. 4 response to CRCPD members by Dave Bernhardt.
One of the banes of the news business is coming across a bogey, where you turn over a bunch of stones … and end up with a bunch of upside-down rocks. Or – even worse – you end up with plenty of facts and documents, but nothing fits into a straight, cohesive article.
HAUPPAUGE, N.Y. – A stone commemorating the victims of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York will be rededicated on the event’s eighth anniversary – albeit miles away from its initial installation.