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How to Add a ChatBot to Your Website
Anyone who's ever had to call their cable, phone or credit card company knows how invaluable a website's chatbot can be. This handy tool usually pops up in the bottom right-hand corner of a web…
4 Video Optimizing Strategies You Might Have Overlooked
If your business is producing video content, you’re already ahead of the curve. A 2015 eMarketer report found that just 9 percent of small businesses use YouTube. While making solid videos is a great…
3 Winter Market Seminars You Can't Miss
Anyone who's ever been to a winter market knows that there's a whirlwind of activity going on. Showrooms have new products they're dying to show off, and they're putting out great spreads for lunches…
Shine On! 4 Tips for Cleaning a Crystal Chandelier
Above a rustic farmhouse dining table. Over a gorgeous marble kitchen countertop. Above a vintage claw foot tub. A crystal chandelier can lend unexpected glamour and whimsy to high-traffic spaces,…
Napa Home & Garden Announces Partnership with Barclay Butera
Napa Home & Garden announced last week a new collaboration with designer and author Barclay Butera.
The launch will kick off this January in Atlanta with a party and book signing on Friday, Jan…
Showroom Bar: Would You Serve Alcohol?
What goes great with a velvet sofa? A glass of wine, obviously.
That seems to be City Furniture's strategy. This October, the company began serving craft beer and wine at its Tarmarac, FL location,…
La Vie en Velvet
Like actress Emma Stone gripping onto her Oscar for La La Land, velvet is holding hard and fast to its reign as the “It” fabric of the year. In fashion, luxe velvet showed up everywhere from the…
How to Automate Social Media — Without Losing Your Voice
When social media automation first came out, the posts were somewhat laughable. They sounded robotic, and it was easy to spot when a real person was actually doing the posting in real time. Nowadays…
Entries/Nominations for 2018 Lighting Showroom of the Year Awards Now Being Accepted Online
The ninth annual Lighting Showroom of the Year Awards competition, which honors exceptional lighting retailers, is now open and accepting entries and nominations. The 2018 Awards are hosted by…
Hooker Furniture Raises More Than $40,000 For Local Charities
Hooker Furniture announced this week that it raised $41,386 to benefit Grace Network and the Salvation Army of Martinsville-Henry County through a recent warehouse sale.
The sale was held at the…