Leslie Carothers

Current

• Principal at The Kaleidoscope Partnership (Sole Proprietorship)

Education

• University of Central Florida - College of Business Administration

Recommended

19 people have recommended Leslie

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Furniture

Websites

• www.twitter.com/tkpleslie

Leslie Carothers’s Summary

I am the founder and owner of The Kaleidoscope Partnership and have a core competency in the home industries vertical.

My business partners with furniture retailers, manufacturers and suppliers to develop social media conversational marketing strategies.

We work to engage potential customers in direct conversations using the appropriate social media platforms to create trust and loyalty which, in turn, yields sales and develops sustainable brand awareness and value.

I have been in the home furnishings industry for over 26 years and have worked extensively with all industry stakeholders: furniture consumers, retail furniture sales teams, retail furniture store owners, furniture manufacturers, and suppliers to the home furnishings industry.

This deep experience in the furniture industry combined with my knowledge of the internet and social media is the key to being able to deliver exceptional value to my clients.

I founded my company, The Kaleidoscope Partnership seven years ago and have since worked to increase the revenue of over 40 retailers,manufacturers and or suppliers across North America.

My single goal is to help the furniture and other home related industries realize:

By utilizing social media conversational marketing, long term marketing expenses can be reduced permanently. Those expenses that ARE necessary can be redirected towards having conversations DIRECTLY with consumers who are interested in buying your product.

The reduction in long term marketing expense can be used to save jobs and/or re-invest in other aspects of your business to increase your sales.

Leslie Carothers’s Specialties:

Social media marketing, branding through social media conversations, web 2.0 technology, interactive marketing, internet marketing thought leadership, sales training, interior design, writing and speaking on behalf of the home furnishings industry.

Leslie Carothers’s Experience

• Principal

  The Kaleidoscope Partnership (Sole Proprietorship)

  (Sole Proprietorship; Furniture industry)

  July 2002 — Present (7 years 5 months)

  We provide social media conversational marketing strategies for clients in the home industries in order to connect them directly with the consumers and/or businesses who are interested in buying their products and/or helping to spread awareness of their brand.

Leslie Carothers’s Education

• University of Central Florida - College of Business Administration

  1976 — 1978

Additional Information

Leslie Carothers’s Websites:

• www.twitter.com/tkpleslie

Leslie Carothers’s Groups:

WITHIT-Women In The Home Industries Today- VP of National Membership on the Board of Directors,
Help1Up- organization that donates furniture to needy families through furniture banks-on national retail advisory board,
NHFA-National Home Furnishings Assoc.- supplier member,
MIMA- Minnesota Interactive Marketing Association
Sustainable Furniture Council-Corporate Member

•    Luxury & Lifestyle Professionals
•    Let's Cradle!
•    eMarketing Association Network
•    Hospitality Group
•    Furniture
•    Minnesota Networking Group
•    Sustainability Working Group
•    ASID
•    Green & Sustainability Innovators & Innovation Network
•    Innovative Marketing, PR, Sales, Word-of-Mouth & Buzz Innovators
•    Retail Industry Professionals Group
•    Architecture and Interiors
•    Social Media Today
•    Tweeple
•    ♥ LOHAS (Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability) 3000+ Members
•    Sustainability in remodeling & Interior Design
•    Sustainable Brands
•    Think Green
•    WITHIT
•    Green Communicators
•    Matter Network
•    Social Media Professional
•    Home Furnishings Industry Professionals
•    Green Retailers Network
•    Social Media for Furniture Retailers, Manufacturers and Suppliers
•    Landfair Furniture + Design Gallery for Designers
•    International Furniture Manufacturers/ Suppliers Seeking Furniture Stores & Importers In US & Canada
•    LUXURY HOME BUILDERS NETWORK
•    myBusca
•    EcoHome Magazine
•    National Home Furnishings Association
•    Western Home Furnishings Association
•    Sustainable Resources for Furniture and Bedding Retailers, Manufacturers and Suppliers
•    Futures Furniture Business Directory & Resource Guide
•    FURNITURE DESIGN
•    Twittering
•    High Point Design Center/HPDC
•    Antiques by Zaar
•    Go Furnish
•    www.withit.org members only
•    Social Media for US Furniture Retailers
•    Social Media for International Furniture Retailers
•    Social Media for US Furniture Manufacturers
•    Social Media for International Furniture Manufacturers
•    Social Media for US Furniture Suppliers
•    Social Media for International Furniture Suppliers
•    Social Media for E-Commerce Furniture Retailers
•    Social Media Success
•    Social Media for Office Furniture Dealerships

Leslie Carothers’s Honors:

Speaker at 2006 Furniture Today Leadership Conference
Keynote speaker at 2007 Furniture Marketing Group meeting in Scottsdale, AZ
Featured speaker at 2008 All-Industry Conference in the Bahamas
Named WITHIT Ambassador in 2008
Will be two session speaker for WHFA Convention in Maui, Hawaii in May, 2009.