Home Furnishings Retailers
Home furnishings retailers have a lot to contend with these days — online competition, changing consumer expectations, rising retail rents. In this section, find news, products and trends for home furnishings retailers to see continued success.
What You Can Learn from Walmart's Black Friday Strategy
Ten years ago, no Thanksgiving meal ended without a few Black Friday horror stories: alarms going off at 4 a.m., the long lines in front of Walmart and Best Buy and the fights to score the big gifts…
3 Reasons Why 2018 Is the Year of the Smart Home
The year 2018 is expected to be the year of the smart home — the year consumers finally embrace the true smart home movement — and there's good reason to see why. LED bulbs are coming down in price…
5 Reasons to Say "Viva Las Vegas Market"
Forget about Gwyneth Paltrow’s “Clean Sleeping” regimen; most of us just need sleep and more of it—with or without an $80 copper pillowcase. A solid eight hours of shuteye helps improve memory and…
Share of Showroom
Rent takes a big bite out of profits, but what if there was a way to cut that expense and generate new business in the process? Opening your showroom up to a complementary business generates a number…
Amazon's New Furniture Brands and What They Mean for Your Showroom
After months of speculation and a few trade market appearances, Amazon officially entered the furniture game this month with the launch of two new private label brands, Rivet and Stone & Beam.…
How to Personalize Your Marketing Emails
The latest research shows that customers want personalization from businesses, but personalization doesn't start when a consumer goes to the lighting or furniture showroom. Now it starts online.
To…
6 Tips for Throwing the Best Holiday Open House
From Pumpkin Spice Lattes to LED-powered sweaters to radio stations that play all holiday music all the time, it doesn’t take much to send people into a festive frenzy.
Lighting showrooms across the…
At Home Today
In this issue, we’re diving into the topic of “today’s homes,” tackling how we live in this day and age and the products that help us do so.
In gathering content for the issue, I was pleasantly…
New Study Shows Personalization Matters
The easiest way to turn away a customer is to frustrate them, and it sounds like a lot of customers are frustrated with retailers.
According to the 2017 State of Personalization report from customer…
Tackling the Scary Topic of Tax Reform
On Halloween, it seems fitting to talk about a topic that everyone seems to fear and dread: taxes.
In May, tax reform was the next topic House and Senate Republicans planned to tackle after…