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Furniture Fairy can’t protect your family

Furniture Fairy can’t protect your family

by David Lively | About Retail, Blog, Communication, Family Business

The Las Vegas furniture market is filled with great product introductions and a record number of retailers looking to fend off the summer blues. I was nicely surprised to NOT hear people complaining about how difficult business is. While it is clear things are tough,...
Furniture Fairy can’t protect your family

Business Unusual:

by David Lively | About Retail, Blog, Communication, Family Business, Generations

This evening seems simply surreal. I’m in Las Vegas preparing to speak to a number of independent furniture store owners at World Market Center. Generational transfer is the topic of the presentation. While reviewing notes it was striking to re-read the results...
Furniture Fairy can’t protect your family

Boy scarred by tragedy becomes a symbol of hope to everyone.

by David Lively | About Retail, Blog, Communication, Generations, Personality Type

Dreams and myths are constellations of archetypal images. What then is an archetype? Jung said we have a”preconscious psychic disposition that enables a (man) to react in a human manner.” Archetypes may emerge into consciousness in piles of variations....
Furniture Fairy can’t protect your family

Sticks and stones will NOT break bones, but words CAN really hurt you

by David Lively | About Retail, Blog, Communication, Family Business

Words really do matter in advertising. Advertising written well will cause the reader or listener to take abrupt and unexpected changes in direction. Advertising should align with what really touches the customer, moving them and their hearts with meaning. Advertising...
Furniture Fairy can’t protect your family

Rite of Passage

by David Lively | About Retail, Blog, Communication, Personality Type

For the first half of our life, passages are fairly easily marked. We go to school, get a job, find a mate, raise a family and contribute to our community. But a strange thing happens on the way to the finish line. The built in “life detector” begins to...
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