To Keep Your Job, Build Your EQ!
We’ve all heard the magical mantra, “Hey, do your job!” It’s memorable, and usually works for a single, short-term transaction. But it does not capture the essence of your work style or your career.
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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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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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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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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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Why You Need an Employee Handbook (and What to Put in It)
Let’s face it: the thought of assembling an employee handbook can be daunting, confusing and time-consuming. What should it include? Why do you even need one?
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Store Design Concepts for Rent-to-Own Dealers
Before TRIB Group’s rent-to-own (RTO) members head out to our spring show in Atlanta next month, it’s worth recapping a highlight of our last gathering.
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Opinion: The Truth About the National Debt
Articles about the national debt are usually very controversial, and I expect this one will be no less contentious.
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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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