NTCA BENEFITS BOX Monthly Webinars, TileTV benefit everyone in the industry Some of the benefits of NTCA extend beyond the NTCA membership, such as NTCA free webinars and the Tile-TV digital news magazine. Twice monthly, you can tune in to free hour-long webinars on pertinent topics to the industry, presented by experts. Sessions in the series are individually sponsored by ARDEX, Coverings ’18, Custom Building Products, Emser, LATICRETE, MAPEI, Schluter, and TEC. If you can’t tune in during the day, no problem! NTCA archives all the webinars so all you have to do is go to www.tile-assn. com/?page=webinars, register, and you can watch any of 50 (at this writing) webinars. Some of the webi- nars include: Sealers for Tile, Grout & Natural Stone; Superior Tile Format, The New Generation of Tile; Barrier Free Showers; Strategies for Social Media;BenefitsofPrecastCementitious Terrazzo Tile; Membranes and much, much more. Take a look! Mike Shoffner, market- ing services coordinator for Ironrock, Inc., called these webinars “very edu- cational and informative.” We think you’ll agree. NTCA also produces a monthly news magazine called TileTV. View it at www.iwantmytiletv.com and learn about industry events in a lively news magazine style. The most recent show at this writing – August 30, 2017, has the 2017 Italian Tile Expo at the center of its program, explaining that “NTCA representatives will be deliv- ering presentations at the upcoming Cersaie Ceramic Tile Trade Fair in Bologna, Italy. Meetings regarding large format and gauged porcelain tile will also be held with Assoposa and leaders of the EUF. Tune in for more details.” Coverings, Daltile, LATICRETE, ARDEX, Custom Building Products, Bellota, MAPEI, Tile Shop, Lackmond all sponsor TileTV and make it pos- sible for NTCA to bring you this news magazine. In addition, a brand new seg- ment for TileTV started with this epi- sode. NTCA Training director, Mark Heinlein, answers questions from viewers in “Question Mark.” Tune in to this punchy monthly news show and view archived shows from 2017 and 2016 or follow at Facebook at https:// www.facebook.com/tiletv. Interested in learning more about NTCA? Contact Jim Olson at jim@ tile-assn.com or visit NTCA’s Membership page at www.tile-assn. com/?page=Membership. 94 TileLetter | November 2017