by Margo | May 14, 2012 | Uncategorized
As an independent retailer, owning a business in this still sluggish economy is stressful especially when confronted with the big box chains and their push to get customers through their doors. They may be intimidating to you, with their low price focus, or possibly...
by Margo | May 14, 2012 | Uncategorized
I have a dear friend who always says – ‘There is ALWAYS a reason for champagne!” How can you not agree with that statement!? There is something to celebrate everyday – happy, sad, traditional, local, sporting events — Same goes for in...
by Natalie | May 11, 2012 | Uncategorized
Are you getting the most out of your Facebook business page??? My gal Dana inspired this blog with her Monday marketing blogs and hopefully I’m not pre-empting her J If so, Dana you can repost this later J I still see a ton of retailers out there who have...
by Natalie | May 3, 2012 | Uncategorized
In our line of work we come across a lot of different point of sale systems (some much more sophisticated than others) and quite frankly none of them are 100% perfect!! You need to decide what kind of data you want to get out of your system and really analyze the...
by Margo | Apr 30, 2012 | Uncategorized
Happy Monday, good people. Today marks the start of Marketing Mondays – over the next few weeks I will be sharing some basic and creative ideas for marketing your store. It doesn’t matter if you are selling ladies apparel, running shoes or guns &...
by Natalie | Apr 16, 2012 | Uncategorized
Happy Almost Tax Day!!! Wow that pained me to write that!! The only person I know who is happy that Tax Day is almost here, is my sister who works for an accountant and spends every Saturday and a lot of late nights at work from January 1 thru Tax Day so for her...