Like many of you, I do a fair amount of travel, so staying in hotels is common for me. I really hate being away from my family, but it works out because I have the kind of personality my wife enjoys a vacation from every now and then. I would be lying if I said […]
We just finished up a big sales meeting in which we brought together our entire team from the bedding group to get ready for the ISPA Expo coming up at the end of the month. Normally when you get through one of those types of meetings, you leave with a few takeaways that can really […]
Have you ever worked retail? I have, and I waited tables and bartended for years in high school and college. Didn’t you just hate it when a customer gave you attitude, was rude, and acted like you were the cause for all of their problems? I used to get so annoyed but there was almost […]
According to the latest ISPA statistics, the industry is up a whopping 1.3% in dollars and 1.2% in units through July. The good news is we might be riding a little wave here, with dollars up 5.9% and units up 4.9% for July. The big looming question at the moment is…what will the consumer do […]
You read that headline correctly – I am FIRED UP today because we launched Sleep Geek 3.0. For those of you that don’t know, more than two years ago we created a community called Sleep Geek, purpose-built for retail sales associates – and really great for anyone in the mattress industry. The idea here is if […]