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.
4 Tools For Creating Social Media Visuals
Whether you’re posting a promotion, announcing event details or wishing your customers a happy holiday, images are a great way to share messages across your social media channels. Visuals are much…
U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Case on Sales Tax
Independent showrooms face a ton of competition online, and though many showrooms can compete well online with their own e-commerce stores, there's one major benefit that online-only retailer enjoy…
Howard Elliott Launches Photo Contest
Howard Elliott this week announced the launch of its Show Us Your Howard Elliott contest, where contestants can submit photos featuring Howard Elliott product for the chance to win $500.…
4 Online Project Management Tools That Actually Manage
Are these scenarios familiar: An annoyed customer calls for the second time to ask why an associate didn't follow up on her question. The second part of an order was never placed, and now the…
Sunbrella, Ballard Designs Launch Indoor Performance Upholstery Collection
In an exciting new debut, veteran home furnishings retailer Ballard Designs and performance textile leader Sunbrella® have partnered to launch the retailer’s first collection of performance fabrics…
3 Answers to Your Questions on Creating Customer Surveys
When it comes to getting customer feedback, you may casually ask patrons questions in your store and look at your online reviews from time to time. But if you want to truly gauge how your business is…
The Jungle Look: 6 Dining Room Ideas
Sure, it’s bright and sunny in California and maybe Florida and Arizona, but for those of us in the other 47 states, baby, it’s cold outside. Chicago is snowed in. Seattle is wet and dreary, and in…
3 Big-Box Strategies to Borrow and Improve
Although they are inherently different, independent showrooms and big-box retailers like Restoration Hardware, Target and West Elm compete for consumers’ business, and it can sometimes feel like an…
4 Easy Ways to Start Learning More About SEO
If the words "digital marketing," "SEO" and "social media marketing" make your eyes glaze over and your hearing go fuzzy, you are not alone.
Digital marketing seems to have grown overnight, changing…
It’s Classic
At a time when contemporary furniture, edgy LED fixtures and minimalistic, modern style has permeated mainstream home decor, there is a still a yearning for traditional design. In fact, all signs…