CES 2022: Smart Home Trade Show Report

CES 2022: Smart Home Trade Show Report

This past week, the world’s leading tech manufacturers and aficionados converged in Las Vegas at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES)… the largest consumer innovations trade show experience of the year. Well, that’s typically the case, anyway....
Show Review… Best New Products at PSP/DeckExpo

Show Review… Best New Products at PSP/DeckExpo

Last week, thousands of industry professionals congregated at the 2021 International Pool Spa Patio (PSP) Expo / DeckExpo show in Dallas. Event attendance increased by 21 percent from 2019, when the event was held in New Orleans. PSP Expo, the premier...
Coverings 2021 Brings Home Latest Tile & Stone Trends

Coverings 2021 Brings Home Latest Tile & Stone Trends

For 30 years, Coverings – the annual global tile and stone conference and expo – has been sharing every facet of the tile and stone industry with professionals from around the globe… presenting the latest product trends, application...
“Smart” Appliances Use Technology For Its Own Sake

“Smart” Appliances Use Technology For Its Own Sake

As a group, we marketers have a bad habit that needs to be stopped. We take an idea, phrase or word that we think has meaning to consumers, then repeat it ad nauseum until it is utterly meaningless. Previous examples of terms we have mercilessly beaten into the ground...