Strategy For The Furniture Retailer
Talking Points
By Powell Slaughter
About Powell
Powell Slaughter has been covering the furniture industry for 15 years. While his longtime emphasis had been case goods product coverage, he also spent a fair amount of time examining retail technology and operations, which inspired him to come to work with Home Furnishings Business magazine.The Z Files
May is Mental Health Month
May 24, 2010In doing some research for this blog topic; I discovered that
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Sleepy's Commercial Catchy
Apr 30, 2010I've been traveling a good bit lately, and maybe I'm sleep-deprived like most of the world or it could be...
In Training
Stay Current, Keep Selling
Mar 31, 2010Last week my daughter told me a story about her neighbor, Jim, who recently lost his job. Although Jim had...
Step on the Gas
Create Relationships
May 26, 2010Three keys to building better relationships:
Twenty years ago, after a very nice stint in theRSS Feed
Social Media at Work
Our industry's still figuring out how and where social media fit into the business of selling furniture, but waiting in my e-mail when I returned home from last week's American Home Furnishings Alliance marketing meeting in Myrtle Beach, S.C., was a possible way to make progress on that exploration.
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Corraling Consumer Attention
Nice to see the "Is It Home Yet?" campaign get some attention out where it counts--in the media consumers read.
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Dinner Conversation Far from Home
I don't get to Asia, Europe or South America as often as I did in my former life as a product writer, and I'd almost forgotten just how interesting, challenging and downright fun it can be to gather around a table and swap thoughts over dinner.
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Cebu Retains Its 'Wow' Factor
While the show's a third the size it was when I first visited here eight years ago, in terms of exhibitors, the Cebu International Furniture Foundation's annual Cebu X has lost none of its "Wow!" factor for someone used to seeing product in High Point and Las Vegas.
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Where in Cebu is Powell Slaughter?
On the final leg of my trip to Cebu, a flight Wednesday morning from Manila, I was fortunate to have Luis Sicat as my seatmate. Secat, president of accessories maker Global Plus Interdecor, which has a plant in Cebu, also is a council member of the Export Development Council of The Philippines' Department of Trade and Industry.
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