Management

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imagine.io
What Furniture Retail Leaders Can Learn from The One Minute Manager

Simple, powerful leadership principles that drive performance and engagement on the sales floor and beyond. Whether you’re managing a large retail floor, a regional chain of home furnishings stores, or a small family-owned business, the demands on today’s retail leaders have never been greater. Between staffing challenges, customer expectations, and

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Home Furnishings Association
Leadership vs. Management: Why Understanding the Difference Matters

In a retail furniture store, layouts are constantly refreshed, delivery deadlines are tight, and customer expectations are always evolving—it’s easy to get caught up in the day-to-day operations. As a retail leader, you might focus on schedules, solving customer issues, and keeping inventory on track. All of that is essential,

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Home Furnishings Association
How Retail Leaders Can Improve Their Communication Skills

The success of your business often hinges on the people working the floor, managing deliveries, handling customers, and selling products. And the glue that holds it all together? Communication. Whether you’re the owner of a family-run store, a sales manager overseeing a large showroom, or a warehouse lead managing operations, your

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Home Furnishings Association
A Practical Guide for Making Difficult Decisions

Decision-making is a daily responsibility when you are an owner or manager in a home furnishings business. However, not all decisions are created equal. Some are routine—adjusting a store display, scheduling a team member, and ordering top-selling inventory. Others, however, carry much more weight: Should we expand to a second

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Evoneer
Meet Evoneer: The AI Platform Built for Retailers

Why Generative AI Is Becoming a Must on the Sales Floor Retailers today are surrounded by data, but getting clear answers takes too long. At Evoneer, we’re building a new layer for modern retail work: a unified platform of generative AI copilots that make operations smarter, faster, and more connected.

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Lightspeed Commerce
10 Things to Look for When Buying a POS System

Whether expanding locations and pursuing a more robust system or seeking to upgrade to a platform with deeper insights that can future-proof your position in the market, switching to a new POS system isn’t to be taken lightly.  Searching for a new POS system for your growing home furnishing business

Evoneer
AI vs. Rules-Based Systems in Furniture Retail: Finding the Right Fit

It’s the middle of the day, the showroom is full of customers, and the sofa everyone wants is out of stock. Meanwhile, your retail technology is reacting, not predicting — and it’s costing you. Choosing the right retail technology to manage your inventory can make all the difference between keeping

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Retail Smart Guys
Increase Retail Cash Flow with 3 Business Tweaks

Retailers often think the next boost in their business will come from finding the next amazing line of merchandise or discovering a new marketing tool. Sometimes, they believe it will happen because they hire a killer salesperson or hope new businesses will fill vacancies around them, bringing traffic. The problem

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Brad Huisken
Six Sales Principles for Business and Life

Sales success in business and life is not a matter of chance—it’s built on a foundation of strong guiding principles. Certain fundamental sales principles apply universally, whether you’re a sales professional striving to close more deals, a leader shaping a high-performance team, or an individual looking to improve personal discipline.

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Home Furnishings Association
Safeguarding Your Retail Business Against Cyber Threats

It Could Happen To You- Start Protecting Your Business The retail industry faces various cyber threats that can profoundly impact businesses. It’s no longer a question of “if” but “when” an attack will occur. With cybercriminals becoming more sophisticated, retailers must adopt comprehensive strategies to protect their operations and customer

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