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3D Furniture Builder helps Norway’s largest furniture retailer

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Cylindo at Bohus event

I went to an interesting event last week. It was Bohus, Norway’s largest furniture retail chain, that every year gathers all their furniture manufacturers and storeowners for a great Bohus trade-show. An excellent way to discover what is new, build relations and, of course, trade.

As a leading retailer, Bohus is aiming to stay ahead of the pack, by delivering excellent shopping experiences, whether in-store or online. One of the ways they are succeeding is by collaborating with Cylindo on delivering interactive visualization like the 3D Furniture Builder.

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IKEA Waking up to Online Furniture Reality

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Cylindo online shopping

After a stellar online Christmas performance, with sales up 33.5% compared with in-store sales 8.8%, IKEA is finally waking up and smelling the online coffee.

It has taken IKEA a long time to accept that the market is heading online; where other companies quickly saw an opportunity IKEA was hesitant and as a result has not been able to establish a solid online footprint in the industry. Read More

You Could be Losing Sales Because Customers Need More Help

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cylindo service

Looking at furniture in the store is one thing, but imagining what it would look like in another color, another configuration or at home in the living room is difficult to do.

65% of people are visual learners, meaning they understand things better when they have visual aides to guide and assist them. Perhaps that explains why more than 40% of furniture shoppers have trouble making up their minds when it comes to design related decisions. Read More

How to Create High Converting Product Pages

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Furniture Viewer

See UK retailer Discover&Deliver, their website is a mix of travel, exploration, style, and inspiration. It makes you long to buy something; own some of the leisurely luxury and elegance that emanates throughout the website.
To entice the design-conscious globetrotters to move from dreaming to buying, the product pages deliver outstanding service: rich product descriptions, beautiful and plentiful product images, and photographs from around the world where you can experience the furniture in tantalizing and inspiring settings. Read More

Furniture retail reality & e-tail [Infographic]

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Furniture Retail

Innovation – the elusive golden egg of business


Read any business books lately? If you have I bet they included something about the necessity of innovation. How we live in “innovate or die” times. It is incredibly easy to say, but not very easy to do. Especially if you work in furniture retail where people have bought and sold stuff in pretty much the same way for decades. Read More