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Thanks to Jamie Goldberg for giving me the opportunity to provide a guest post. I've been following Gold Notes for several years. I look here weekly to find out what is happening in the world of kitchen and bath design. I'm honored to be sharing tile trends from Coverings 2012, one of the largest stone and tile shows in North America. I'm Bill Buyok the owner of Avente Tile, a company that focuses exclusively on hand painted ceramic and cement tiles. Let me start by saying, I love tile. I'll be sharing trends and some of my personal favorites from...

Monitoring the Social State of Home, Tile & Design As you [may] know, the purpose of the Social Flooring Index Blog is to monitor the social state of the flooring industry. What's fascinating is experiencing firsthand how different segments within the flooring industry have embraced social media, Twitter and the resulting relationship building. Based on Coverings 2012, the Tile Industry remains at the forefront. I say remains because my first flooring taste of this kind of socially generated connecting and networking took place during another Coverings in 2010 [for details, read Meetups and Tweetups: Building Community] when a Tweetup took place....

Arpi Nalbandian interviews different tile vendors to help explain why Why Social Media Should be Considered a Tool of the Trade. Comments from Bill Buyok, owner of Avente Tile are included on p. 28.  

Avente Tile Owner, Bill Buyok, authored Building your small business with a blog for Floor Covering News (FCN). The special FCN supplement, A Guide to using Social Media was published November 14, 2011. Christine Whittemore, of Simple Marketing Now, posted a blog article on Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2011 on The Social Flooring Index Blog that monitors the social state of flooring & floor covering. Her post, Floor Covering News Social Media Guide for Business 2011, mentions all of the contributors to the special FCN publication.   How to build your business with a blog in Floor Covering News Floor Covering...

Note: This post, Cuban Tiles, was first published October 13, 2011 on BuildingBlox. I'm Bill Buyok, owner of Avente Tile and the primary contributor for the company's weekly blog, Avente Tile Talk. At Avente Tile, our passion is hand crafted tile. First, thanks to Todd for the opportunity to guest blog here. Todd also provided a topic that he wanted me to discuss: Cuban Tile. I love to talk tile and Cuban Tile is a favorite of mine. Cuban Tiles are Cement Tiles Cuban Tiles are a moniker for cement tiles. I fell in love with these tiles when I...