Retail Education
Home furnishings and lighting retailers face many challenges in this ever-changing economy. From new consumer expectations to online competition, today's retailers work hard to ensure their customers have access to on-trend products and great customer service. In this section, you'll find all things retailing — news, features, analysis and tools — needed to make your retail business a success.
Neighborhood Networking for Home Furnishings Retailers
You’re a brick-and-mortar home furnishings or lighting retailer. Your primary customer base is relatively local. Some of the most effective ways to market to your customers and potential customers…
Lighting Retailers: Enter the 12th Annual Showroom of the Year Awards
Join the ranks of lighting retailers who have been honored by the Showroom of the Year Awards for more than a decade! The deadline is fast approaching to enter the 12th Annual awards that exclusively…
Expanding Social Commerce
With so much shifting in 2020 as to how consumers make buying decisions, it has become essential for retailers to ensure an experience for their customers in more than just the brick-and-mortar store…
4 Tips For Using TikTok in Your Design or Retail Business
TikTok is a platform that celebrates creators. From amateur dancers recreating 15-second dances to amateur chefs folding a tortilla into quadrants, the video platform gives anyone and everyone an…
Pay Attention to What's Next
This last year has been for assessing… and pivoting… and assessing again… and pivoting again. Coronavirus and all that came with it pretty much dominated our lives and our business decisions. While…
IMC Webinar Series Addresses Diversity in Retail
International Market Centers (IMC) announced that it will present a series of four hour-long webinars highlighting diversity and inclusion issues impacting retail. The series, which debuts on Feb. 1…
How Augmented Reality Can Enhance Your E-Commerce User Experience
The coronavirus pandemic has made consumers more judicious about leaving their homes, which means e-commerce is more important now than ever before. Consumers are shopping with purpose, often doing…
7 Tips for Considering E-commerce at Retail
With more than a year of consumers adapting to purchasing online and delivery or curbside pickup as a result of COVID-19, if you haven’t yet added e-commerce, now is the time to be considering this…
Christina Henck Banks on Design With New Retail Space
Necessity is the mother of invention — and growth — as in the case of Christina Henck, founder of Henck Design, which now incorporates a new home furnishings retail showroom in Philadelphia. “I would…
Jamie Merida Brings Bountiful Home
If you’re a regular reader of Furniture, Lighting & Decor, you’ve seen Jamie Merida’s name. He’s been a panelist on our virtual seminars, and we’ve talked with him about how he’s built his brand…