Hunter Douglas

And that's going to be his hub.

It'll move over the gear that already works with HomeKit, like his Echo B thermostat and his third reality garage door opener and his Hunter Douglas shades.

Over time, he's going to swap out his ring lights and doorbell.

for hue and put home kit compatible switches and plugs and probably add some macara locks while his ways cameras and kitchen appliances stay on their own app so he's going to do it the way we would recommend it you do it over time and gradually whatever devices can work if you're going from one to the other doesn't have to be apple maybe you want to go google home or whatever but Do it over time.

All right.

Welcome in, everyone, to Let's Talk Real Estate program 1,609, brought to you by Mark's Fireplace and Lighting, Ridings Plumbing, House to Home Interiors, Springfield's only premier Hunter Douglas gallery dealer, and SlabJackers Constructions.

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Hey, you might have noticed I'm not Fritz.

When I think about it and I cross it over to my window treatment people, there is not, there is really nothing I can say, very little I can say about the window treatments, the awnings, the products I sell that is unique to any one of our businesses.

Hunter Douglas blinds are Hunter Douglas blinds.

You know, XYZ awnings are XYZ awnings.

And what I'm feeling, like what we're learning now, is yes, 10 years ago, if I'm a window treatment person and I have way more information about those commodity items than the guy next to me in my same town, and my SEO is, is, you know, Hunter Douglas window treatments, custom window treatments, custom awnings, retractable awnings, pergola awnings, blah, blah, blah.

Yeah, five, eight, 10 years ago, I'm gonna get found before the guy that's still like, "Yeah, I got one page and my homepage, and y- maybe I have 10 pages, but they're not optimized.

They're not SEO optimized." But what I'm feeling now, and I'm really curious if you are saying this is either a truth or becoming a truth, that if I then don't do, "Well, yeah, here's all my SEO for the generic products that I offer, but here's the town I do it in.

So it's windows.

So we are primarily a Hunter Douglas dealer.

Um, we just introduced Carroll Fabrics, if you like my wall.

I saw that.

Yeah.

So introduced that.

We are, uh, using that as a complement to Hunter Douglas, 'cause Hunter Douglas gives you that function, and, um, Carroll gives you kind of that finished look in the house, so.

All right.

All right.

It's free motorization on Hunter Douglas, uh, woven woods and Aria soft blinds.

Uh, tell me all about that.

That's gonna end very soon.

Okay, excellent.

So definitely.

So the woven woods are called Provenance by Hunter Douglas.

Mm-hmm.

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House to Home Interiors, Springfield's only premier Hunter Douglas gallery dealer.

I wanna take a moment to thank, uh, Evan Hart of Williams Appraisal Services for coming in last week and sharing with us the, uh, changes that are occurring within the appraisal industry.

Starting November the 2nd, they're going to a whole new program, and, uh, that's n- gonna cause some changes.