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2018
Open up your Retail Toolboox for 2019
- 11/26/2018
Six retail tools you should take out of your tool box to make sure physical assets, policies and procedures can do a good job for you in 2019.
How To Budget For Success
- 11/26/2018
Only about one in thirty independent furniture store owners
produce an annual budget and know how to use it.
Warehouse Improvement Metrics
- 9/22/2018
Here are the metrics every home furnishings retailer needs to use to improve warehouse facilities and processes.
Editor's Corner: Do No Harm?
- 9/22/2018
The desire to do business with companies that embrace an umbrella of sustainable causes is trending upward.
Technology Point/Counterpoint
- 7/4/2018
Everybody is buzzing about VR/AR. Will the early adapters . . . the Amazons, Wayfairs and Frontgates eat your lunch?
Don't Waste Down Time!
- 5/23/2018
If you are a retail owner/manager you probably don't have a lot of down time. But what about your RSAs?
Selling Face To Face
- 5/23/2018
How to make the job of sales the EASIEST high paying position in your company.
100 Years Ago In Furniture World
- 5/23/2018
Excerpts from summer 1918 issues of Furniture World about women, World War I, furniture shortages at retail
and advances in technology.
Every Shopper
A Knocker
- 5/23/2018
100 years ago the word "knocker" was common furniture industry parlance (often used in Furniture World Magazine) to mean a wholesale sales rep or manufacturer's rep.
Design & Designer: Kerrie Kelly
- 3/23/2018
Author, retailer, interior/ product designer Kerrie Kelly talks about consumers, trends, customer engagement and retailing.
Get More Referrals - Part 1
- 3/23/2018
You can teach your retail home furnishings business to market itself, so you can harness the magic of word-of-mouth marketing and referrals.
Don't Ignore Empty Nesters
- 3/23/2018
Engaging them online by using incentives and calls to action is crucial to increasing store traffic and sales.
Getting Your Slice of The Pie
- 3/23/2018
Although a pie is finite, retailers can expand their market from a large to extra-large with pepperoni!
Design & Designer: Nancy Fire
- 1/14/2018
Product designer and trend expert Nancy Fire talks about consumer design preferences, color and style trends for 2018.
Retail Grit
- 1/14/2018
What is Grit? Why does it matter? How can you create a retail culture of Grit?
Discover Color Purple
- 1/14/2018
Pantone recently announced its color of the year. How did this color get chosen and how should we use it?
Time To Party Like It's 2023
- 1/14/2018
RSAs may think a month ahead, and managers may think a year ahead, savvy business people are thinking about 2023.
Who Cares About Service?
- 1/14/2018
Most of us retailers say we care about service,
but isn't it mostly
just for mottos, mailings, mission statements and group hugs?
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