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KANDY Outdoor Flooring of Vancouver Receives Best Of Houzz 2015 Award Over 25 Million Monthly Unique Users Rated Top-Rated Home Building, Remodeling and Design Professionals in Canada and Around the World. Vancouver, BC. Canada, January 24, 2015 – KANDY Outdoor Flooring of Vancouver has been awarded “Best Of Houzz” for Customer Satisfaction by Houzz, the […]

KANDY Outdoor Flooring recently aired on Dragon's Den on January 14, 2015! If you missed it, check us out here:

Great news! We heard from Dragons’ Den that we’ve been selected to appear in an upcoming episode of Dragons’ Den, airing Wednesday, January 14, 2015 at 8 p.m. (8:30 p.m. in NFLD) on CBC Television. It’s a terrific Christmas gift to us all at KANDY Outdoor Flooring. We worked very, very hard on preparing for […]

KANDY Outdoor Flooring is a growing brand with its head office in Vancouver and a very active 1st franchise in Toronto. Whether it’s our weekly virtual leadership team meetings, our client service, interactions and communications, there are a number of apps that simply make our lives easier! 1. Google Hangouts We’ve just switched from Office/Outlook […]

Congratulations on deciding to go into business – a franchised business. Before you spend too much time window-shopping, looking for that “perfect” idea that you’ll know when you see it, it will pay dividends to look deep inside before you look for available franchises outside. Skills and Abilities It’s important to know what you’re really good at, […]

The urbanization trend that is spurring Canada’s condo boom may also be redefining what it means to be a good neighbour. Here’s why. Millenials (the children of boomers, born 1980 – 2000) are leaving their parents’ basements and buying condos, their first affordable piece of real estate. Boomers are downsizing, leaving the suburbs for smaller […]

Fact and folklore often mix through the ages. So it is in franchising, where well-known characters, real and fictionalized, helped write the script for business format franchising as we know it today. For centuries, even millennia, growing commercial entities have sought, tested and employed mechanisms to help overcome barriers related to expansion, capital, and distance. […]

Owning a condo means getting to know your property manager (PM). The list of reasons you’ll need to contact your PM is long.Buying a new sofa? Book the party room? Inquire about guest suites? Complain about a noisy neighbour? Ask about the next board meeting? Your first stop is your property manager. We’ve heard from […]

FOCUS. It’s a powerful word in the world of an entrepreneur. FOCUS on your goals. Structure your day so you can FOCUS getting the important things done. FOCUS on your revenue objectives. FOCUS on your customers. There’s lots of advice available out there to help entrepreneurs and business owners FOCUS on what’s important. My personal […]

Surprise! It’s one of the things that surprises many first-time condo owners. That balcony that you can access only through your suite, through sliding glass doors from your own unit… the one that only you or someone from your condo can get to (without dangerously crawling over the railing from the neighbouring unit) - - […]