Home Furnishings Retailers
Market Watch: The Lighting and Home Furnishings Overlap
The lighting and home decor retail market is undergoing a transformation. This transformation, in response to several factors —online retailing, millennial purchasing power, technological…
8 Little-Known Skills for Amazon’s Alexa
As smart home technology becomes more popular and common place, showrooms and interior designers can expect to hear more about Amazon’s Alexa from clients. This voice service has the ability to…
Helping the U.S.VETS at 2017 ART +IDS Conference
One unforgettable part of the 2017 ART + IDS joint conference in Scottsdale, AZ, happening May 18-21, is sure to be the community service project benefitting an organization called U.S.VETS.…
How to Handle a Bad Online Review
The most recent survey from BasicLocal shows that 84 percent of consumers trust online reviews as much as personal recommendations. So when you receive a bad online review, you might feel anxious and…
Why Online Reviews Matter
When it comes to building a killer searching engine optimization (SEO) strategy, online reviews remain one of the most important components. Google considers an online review to be unique content,…
5 Answers to Tough Customer LED Questions
As LEDs grow in popularity, chances are more clients will be asking tough LED questions that interior designers or even home furnishings retailers may not know how to answer.
We asked experts at…
How to Stand Out in the Showroom Crowd
If you’ve seen one Home Depot store, you’ve basically seen them all. Big-box retailers depend on uniformity, but independently owned showrooms have more freedom to write their own rules.
Beyond big-…
Getting the Younger Generation to Work in Your Lighting Showroom
If you want to know what the future of the lighting industry looks like, check out the industry’s new networking group for young executives. Named the Initiative for the Future, the group already…
