Posts Categorized: lighting industry

Weekly Lighting Round Up!

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Happy Friday! We hope you all have had a great week. In case you have missed some of our social media highlights, we’ve got our weekly lighting round up just for you! We’ve focused on everything lighting from entertainment rooms, Progress product reviews and the International Lighting Market in Dallas! Lighting your “man cave” Silver [...]

Our favorite articles of the New Year!

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Check out of favorite articles and links during this first week of the New Year! Top 10 Rent vs. Own Cities Progress Lighting’s Dallas International Lighting board on Pinterest Interior Trends for 2013

What electrical distributors look for…

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We recently participated in a branding study by The Electrical Distributor magazine (tED) which sought to evaluate awareness and preference for manufacturers of various lighting and electrical products. Here are a few of the key takeaways found by the study: Electrical Distributors use many sources – such as print, in-person, trade publications and sales reps [...]

Weekly lighting round-up!

Posted by kbanks & filed under Dallas Market, Homebuilders, Lighting, Progress Lighting, lighting designs, lighting industry, lighting lifestyles.

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We’ve had some exciting shares and posts across our social media channels in wrapping up 2012 this past week. We hope you have enjoyed them!  In case you missed out, here are some of our favorites. Check out Progress Lighting fixtures featured in lighting publications, interior lighting tips and a look into the 2013 housing [...]

Common Lighting Terms & Definitions

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To better understand any industry, it is always important to learn the lingo. For your convenience, we have complied a list of some popular lighting terms and definitions that we always find useful: CCT – Correlated color temperature CFL – Compact Flourescent Lamp Color Rendering – Ability of a light source to show all colors in [...]

Weekly Lighting Round Up!

Posted by kbanks & filed under Progress Lighting, lighting industry, lighting lifestyles.

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Wow, the first week of October has already come and gone. Can you believe it? We have had quite an exciting week with our favorite posts and links surrounding social media. Today is the last day of our “Fall Back in Love with your Bathroom” Pinterest promotion, we recently announced a new hire and we [...]

Weekly Lighting Recap!

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For those of you who may have been too busy with back-to-school preparation this week, here’s our lighting weekly round-up! Overall, this was an exciting week for us and our fans – with design tips, conference previews, lifestyle news and the unveiling of our Progress Lighting Match Maker Contest winner! Enjoy: Enliven Your Porch with [...]

Choosing the right lighting fixture – by designer Laurie Smith

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The American Lighting Association has produced and launched a new series of videos about lighting features well-known designer Laurie Smith. View this quick, informational video, which focuses on how to use lighting to contrast or coordinate with your interior environment. Let lighting be that unexpected element in your design process – and let us know [...]

Lighting Controls 2.0

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How would you like to come home at night to a lit house without leaving the lights on the entire time while you were out?  If you love the idea as much as we do, be happy to know that solution is here, as we read in Residential Lighting’s September 2011 issue. Today’s consumer has [...]

Lighting showrooms: How do you manage energy use?

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We talk about the benefits of LEDs, CFLs and other energy efficient sources all the time in the lighting industry. But how can efficiency be maintained in a lighting showroom, where hundreds – maybe even thousands – of lamps and fixtures are lit on the sales floor? The September issue of Residential Lighting explores this topic [...]