Make Valentine’s Day More Than Just a Box of Chocolates
February is typically a big mattress month due to Presidents Day, but the more celebrated occasion is, of course, Valentine’s Day.
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Author: Gordon Hecht
Don’t Become a Box of Brillo
As I was doing my Super Bowl KP duty, I thought back to the time when cleaning pots and pans meant scouring them with steel wool pads.
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Stranger Than Truth! Amazing Predictions for 2020!
Whether you browse the headlines of Weekly World News or cast a glance at the National Enquirer at the supermarket checkout, you may have seen these outlets touting bold revelations for 2020.
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Welcome to WHY2K 2020
It’s hard to believe but we are just hours away from the 20th anniversary of Y2K. You may remember that time, when we partied like it was 1999 (because it was 1999), and worried about dire predictions for the turn of the millennium.
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T’was The Day Before Christmas (with Apologies to Clement Moore)
T’was the day before Christmas, and all through our store,
The traffic was absent, a salesman could snore.
A December to Remember
Forget about it, might as well lock up the shop the day after Black Friday. Afterall, everybody knows that no one buys bedding in December.
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The Eye of the Beholder
While some people love the summer and others can’t wait for winter holidays, for me fall is the best time of the year. Warm days, chilly nights, and it’s hard to beat the vibrant colors of the trees as summer green turns to autumn red, gold and brown.
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’Tis the Season For Holiday Sales Events
If you haven’t checked your watch lately, it’s now past September!
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Mattress Sales for $800, Alex!
I’ve been a fan of the game show Jeopardy! since the Art Fleming days. I love the trivia challenge, the pace and the strategy. Even if you are not a fan or have never watched it, you may have noticed that it was in the news last spring.
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The First TED Talk On Selling
Over fifty years ago two friends were discussing the difficulties of writing. One friend suggested a challenge: create an entire book using only fifty different words. Any one word could be used multiple times, but the vocabulary was limited to fifty.
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