Point of Sale

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...

Marketing Mondays!

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 &...

Tax Day :-(

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...

Spring Training

Spring Training ….. I’m off today to see my St. Louis Cardinals play some spring training games in sunny south Florida and I’m super excited about it !!   Love the idea that spring is the start of new beginnings and growth.  I think we all should have our own kind of...

Don’t Put Off Until Tomorrow….

During my stint with a ginormous corporation in the 90’s, I was required to attend a class on time management, using a very popular time management – calendar planning system.  I already was, and still am, a Filofax-wielding-nerd, so many of the ideas of using a...

You’re Invited !

As we move closer to Spring my mind starts drifting, thinking of entertaining and inviting friends to visit.  Which then brings my mind back into focus when I start mentally preparing and making lists of what I will need to buy.  Because surely I wouldn’t invite...

Writer’s Block

When we embarked on this journey (stealing a little bit from the Bachelor – again – don’t judge my really bad taste in television) – I thought this blog writing stuff was going to be pretty easy.   I have a lot to say (usually more than people want to hear) so how...

Growing Pains.

Everyone is busy. Each and every one of us. Some work full time. Some parent full time.  Some work and parent full time. But we cannot change that each of us only has 24 hours in our day. And trying to fit all the have to’s and the want to’s into those 24 hours is...

To Trend or Not To Trend

         Have you ever spotted a trend in a magazine or on Pinterest and couldn’t wait to try it out on yourself? Because it spoke to you and said “this _____ will look ah-mazing on you!!!” Only to have it be an absolute failure?  Well me too.  Just the...