Small Business Technology
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4 Best Facebook Ad Types for Showrooms
One of the best platforms to reach consumers continues to be Facebook. As of the fourth quarter of 2016, Facebook boasted 1.86 billion monthly active users, meaning users who have logged into their…
Smart Home, Smarter Designer
Technology that can be integrated into the home to make it safer or more convenient (or just cooler) is evolving rapidly. Here, interior designer Sharon Fox of Sharon Fox Designs dishes on her…
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…
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,…
Shower in Style: How U by Moen Is Taking Smart Technology to the Shower
It truly is the time to be alive when you can control your morning shower in between hitting the snooze button. This year, Moen launched the first Wi-Fi/cloud-based app driven digital shower system…
Our Favorite Interior Design Blogs
We at Lighting & Decor read constantly: magazines, websites submissions, social media posts, the never-ending email streams. Even with all our work, we always make time to read through our…
Bulbrite Premiers New Website
Bulbrite launched a new website during January Lightovation 2017.
The website went through a comprehensive overhaul, with the goal of making it more user-friendly and an inspiration in the industry…
Idea Board: Smart Home
Living Room
Clever mechanics and advanced engineering allow a living room to transform based on user preferences and needs, standing the test of time.
The Elo square coffee table by Christophe…