Top Five Things Your Business Should Do to Prepare for a Disaster
Perhaps the last thing a retailer wants to think about is planning for a potential natural disaster. Who has the time to prepare for something that may never happen?
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Education
Coronavirus Update: How to Plan for Possible Inventory Shortages
While many of our furniture retail members are busy with the first quarter “tax time bounce,” there are concerns in our industry about what the second quarter and the rest of 2020 will look like for the furniture supply chain as a result of the coronavirus outbreak in China.
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What’s in Store for Retail in the 2020s
No matter your business model, your marketing savvy or your dealer smarts, retail is more difficult now than it was five years ago – which was radically different than five years before that!
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TV Advertising Goes ‘Over the Top’
Over the Top, or OTT, is a reference to how web-based video is delivered — without a set-top box. Streaming services such as Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, Roku, Vudu and others now deliver video content into a majority of the homes in the U.S.
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Don’t Sideline Your No. 1 Asset
As specialty retailers fight for survival in an online world, many have turned to an old strategy: reducing expenditures on employees.
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How to Get the Most Out of Your Marketing Agency
All retailers want to make their businesses as successful as possible. But while some report amazing results from their marketing efforts, your mileage may vary.
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Store Design, the Canadian Way
Besides offering services like merchandising and marketing, Mega Group, which encompasses the Canadian wing of BrandSource, also maintains a dedicated design team.
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Getting Started on Instagram
Want to tap into a social media platform with over 1 billion users, 59 percent of whom are 18 to 29 years old? Then Instagram (IG) is for you.
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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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