Before you ask yourself if you can accomplish a big goal, maybe take a moment to ask yourself why it's important to you. If your WHY is strong enough, the HOW isn't just possible, it's probable.

Chiropractor Lamont Smith created the Tummy Time Mattress after hearing repeated complaints from clients about back problems. While the product is still in its prototype stage, Smith says he has talked to or will talk to a few major mattress brands about partnering on the Tummy Time mattress and see where it goes.

It’s 2022, and there’s no time like the present to start looking at creative ways to drive foot traffic to your store. Here are five ideas you can deploy right now to attract more traffic to your store, courtesy of the book “Come Back to Bed.”

As 2021 comes to a close, it’s never too early to begin thinking about ways to drive foot traffic in the New Year. As you think about 2022, plan ahead and try some of these innovative ideas offered in the book “Come Back To Bed”:

Recognizing the need for a well-designed, health-tracking mattress for seniors, Ergomotion has created Dawn House Living—a new bed aimed specifically at seniors that has sensors to detect irregularities.

If you have ever been curious about the longstanding relationship between the furniture industry and High Point Market, a just-released book by Dr. Richard R. Bennington called High Point University and the Furniture Industry takes you on a deep dive that explores and explains a century-long partnership between the industry and the school.

In less than two decades, the graying of America will be inescapable: Older adults are projected to outnumber kids for the first time in U.S. history.

So what does this mean for the furniture industry? In the grand scheme of things, it could have an effect on nearly every part of the industry—from sales reps to retail staff, and more.

In the first part of this four-part series, we’ll focus strictly on the effects of driver shortages for trucking.

Here’s a fun fact for you: Consider that 90% of the world's data has been produced in just the last two years.

This explosion of information is known as “Big Data,” and it is completely transforming the world around us, according to the US Chamber of Commerce Foundation.

When you first read that you might be thinking, “That’s awesome because I have more information at my fingertips to make life easier and help me make educated decisions.”

In many ways that’s probably true, but consider the amount of information available to consumers today when it comes to shopping for YOUR products.

Is it helping your customers or creating confusion and causing frustration?

If we don’t learn from the past, we’re bound to repeat it.

But in some cases, that may be just what we need to succeed.

Take mattress ads, for example. In the past, mattress ads focused on how people live, sleep and interact with their beds—something many mattress companies continue to focus on today.

That’s not to say today’s mattress companies don’t have creative advertising—just look at Purple. And even today—as back then—businesses are pushing the idea of better sleep, not just the mattress.

But there’s still a lot we can learn from ads of the past, as many of them have extremely creative, modern messages about better sleep and how the mattress helps people live better lives.

That's likely to continue through 2022, according to experts, especially as shipping problems ease and more and more businesses learn from the challenges they faced over the past year and implement new strategies for growth.

To get a few answers, The FAM polled the industry to see how business is these days, and the results are somewhat surprising.

If business is slowing down for you, there are a few things you can do to keep momentum through the holiday.