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The Neverending Sample Sale: How Consignment Websites Can Benefit Showrooms
Investing in showroom samples can be something of a necessary evil. You have to show items in order to sell them, but once you’re done with them, they can end up collecting dust in a back room or…
What's in Store
All of a sudden I looked up and it was December.
OK — not really, but that’s what it felt like. This year, the first year of Lighting & Decor, has flown by, and now at the precipice of a new…
Group Law: Geometric Tables
Remember when your 4th grade teacher would drone on about right angles, line segments and isosceles triangles, and you rolled your eyes because “like in real life when would you ever actually use…
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…