Hardwood Floors April May 2018

Innovation in the Industry You may not realize it, but our industry has a vibrant innovation ecosystem. Advanced technologies that better the lives of installers and homeowners alike are developed and deployed by highly

innovative and entrepreneurial activity, and NWFA wanted to change that. The NWFA will be hosting its very own competition at the upcoming Wood Flooring Expo in Tampa, Florida, April 11-14. Three brave finalists will have the chance to

talented innovators across the supply chain. People often don’t see the scale and depth of this

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OSIEL BETANCOURT Insight Flooring Technologies LLC QuoteHero App Business Idea:

QuoteHero is an app that allows you to measure the square footage of rooms, estimate jobs, and close sales on the spot. e app was created by a ooring professional for ooring professionals. It’s also a white label application that you can customize for your ooring business with your logo, line items, prices, and more. e simple and user-friendly interface makes it easy, and even fun, for ooring contractors and estimators to generate an estimate. QuoteHero follows the installer’s natural work ow, cu ing out the need for manual calculations or double-entry. How did you come up with the idea? QuoteHero was created out of frustration and as a result of determination. As a ooring professional and business owner, juggling many balls at a time, I was overwhelmed with the ine ciency of the whole estimation process. We extensively searched and tried all of the so ware and apps. ey were either too general or too complicated and antiquated, let alone the cost. So we set ourselves to the task of designing and developing the most intuitive and easy-to-use tool. And what started as a small in-home app is now a tool that can help many people like me in the industry.

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