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Boutique Financial Tips For Success

Use these 8 Financial Tips to manage your inventory, increase your profit margins, understand your investments, limit your markdowns and GROW your business. Only a tracked number grows, so if you are ignoring your finances and buying strategy, then you’re asking for a disaster! These are 8 quick and easy tips you can start tracking today!

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Staying In Your Lane: Building a Business Without Debt

Sometimes we get sucked into thinking bigger is always better and assume that it takes massive amounts of debt to start a successful business—but that’s not necessarily the case. Mary Hill of H2G Boutique joins the show today to talk about how she has built her business without using debt. You will hear how she uses cash, how she does inventory, why she pays herself first, and her long-term strategy for growth. 

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The Power of Your Company Scorecard

Welcome back to Five Minute Friday! Today, I want to share a powerful strategy that has significantly impacted how I run my business at the Boutique Hub and how I’ve coached countless members through our Mastermind and Retail Bootcamp programs. The topic of today’s discussion is the company scorecard—a simple yet transformative tool for measuring success.

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How to Get Ready for the Holiday Season! 

Q4 is what I typically refer to as the Holiday Bliss of retail! We all start the season very hopefully for a bigger quarter that could potentially result in record sales for our businesses. 

Yet, we can easily overlook the importance of having a solid plan to make the busiest time of the year, also the most profitable time of the year.

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The Power of the Pivot: Navigating Big Shifts in Business

Recognizing when it’s time to make a shift in your business is key when it comes to building a long-lasting and successful career, and my guest today is a testament to that. Lori Harder has built incredible things, overcome the odds, and shown how to pivot and reinvent your personal brand and business in an effective way. In this episode, she shares from her own experiences and difficult leadership moments that have allowed her to pivot successfully.

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DIY Boutique Holiday Display Ideas

The Holiday season is an opportunity for your boutique to stand out from the crowd. This week’s post features creative projects to help you create an inspired space for your customers to shop. These DIY boutique Holiday display ideas are proof positive that you don’t have to spend a fortune to make your boutique look like a million bucks.

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Negotiating Your Lease: The 3 Essentials Every Retailer Must Know

When opening or relocating a brick-and-mortar retail space, negotiating your lease is a critical step for setting up your business for success. Abby and Sheila from Petal Retail Advisors, experts in retail real estate, share their top three tips for negotiating your lease and why these steps can make or break your business.

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From Burnout to Breakthrough: Getting Back to Basics in Retail

Change is inevitable in life, which is why it’s so important that we master the art of learning, growing, and evolving appropriately with each shift. My guest today is Kary Jackson, who has done just that. I have had the privilege of seeing how Kary’s business keeps evolving over time, and it’s impossible not to admire her tenacity as she has grown and kept going through it all. Listen in as she opens up about dealing with personal life events while keeping her business going, transitioning from having a business partner to working solo again, and more. 

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Maximize Your Holiday Season Sales by Leveraging Customer Shopping Behavior

As we head into the Christmas season, we want to focus on a key customer shopping behavior – EMOTION. The holidays evoke a range of emotions, from nostalgia to happiness and a sense of magic. We aim to create this emotional experience for our customers during their in-store shopping. Research shows that 80% of shoppers prefer to do their holiday shopping in-store, indicating a strong desire for an exciting and festive shopping experience.

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Beyond the Boutique: The Business of Fashion

Are you curious about how to rise through the ranks in the fashion industry? In today’s episode, I’m thrilled to have a conversation with Kelly Helfman, MAGIC. Kelly’s journey from customer service to overseeing one of the largest fashion trade shows in the world is nothing short of inspirational.

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Boutique Financial Tips For Success

Use these 8 Financial Tips to manage your inventory, increase your profit margins, understand your investments, limit your markdowns and GROW your business. Only a tracked number grows, so if you are ignoring your finances and buying strategy, then you’re asking for a disaster! These are 8 quick and easy tips you can start tracking today!

Read More

Staying In Your Lane: Building a Business Without Debt

Sometimes we get sucked into thinking bigger is always better and assume that it takes massive amounts of debt to start a successful business—but that’s not necessarily the case. Mary Hill of H2G Boutique joins the show today to talk about how she has built her business without using debt. You will hear how she uses cash, how she does inventory, why she pays herself first, and her long-term strategy for growth. 

Read More

The Power of Your Company Scorecard

Welcome back to Five Minute Friday! Today, I want to share a powerful strategy that has significantly impacted how I run my business at the Boutique Hub and how I’ve coached countless members through our Mastermind and Retail Bootcamp programs. The topic of today’s discussion is the company scorecard—a simple yet transformative tool for measuring success.

Read More

How to Get Ready for the Holiday Season! 

Q4 is what I typically refer to as the Holiday Bliss of retail! We all start the season very hopefully for a bigger quarter that could potentially result in record sales for our businesses. 

Yet, we can easily overlook the importance of having a solid plan to make the busiest time of the year, also the most profitable time of the year.

Read More

The Power of the Pivot: Navigating Big Shifts in Business

Recognizing when it’s time to make a shift in your business is key when it comes to building a long-lasting and successful career, and my guest today is a testament to that. Lori Harder has built incredible things, overcome the odds, and shown how to pivot and reinvent your personal brand and business in an effective way. In this episode, she shares from her own experiences and difficult leadership moments that have allowed her to pivot successfully.

Read More

DIY Boutique Holiday Display Ideas

The Holiday season is an opportunity for your boutique to stand out from the crowd. This week’s post features creative projects to help you create an inspired space for your customers to shop. These DIY boutique Holiday display ideas are proof positive that you don’t have to spend a fortune to make your boutique look like a million bucks.

Read More

Negotiating Your Lease: The 3 Essentials Every Retailer Must Know

When opening or relocating a brick-and-mortar retail space, negotiating your lease is a critical step for setting up your business for success. Abby and Sheila from Petal Retail Advisors, experts in retail real estate, share their top three tips for negotiating your lease and why these steps can make or break your business.

Read More

From Burnout to Breakthrough: Getting Back to Basics in Retail

Change is inevitable in life, which is why it’s so important that we master the art of learning, growing, and evolving appropriately with each shift. My guest today is Kary Jackson, who has done just that. I have had the privilege of seeing how Kary’s business keeps evolving over time, and it’s impossible not to admire her tenacity as she has grown and kept going through it all. Listen in as she opens up about dealing with personal life events while keeping her business going, transitioning from having a business partner to working solo again, and more. 

Read More

Maximize Your Holiday Season Sales by Leveraging Customer Shopping Behavior

As we head into the Christmas season, we want to focus on a key customer shopping behavior – EMOTION. The holidays evoke a range of emotions, from nostalgia to happiness and a sense of magic. We aim to create this emotional experience for our customers during their in-store shopping. Research shows that 80% of shoppers prefer to do their holiday shopping in-store, indicating a strong desire for an exciting and festive shopping experience.

Read More

Beyond the Boutique: The Business of Fashion

Are you curious about how to rise through the ranks in the fashion industry? In today’s episode, I’m thrilled to have a conversation with Kelly Helfman, MAGIC. Kelly’s journey from customer service to overseeing one of the largest fashion trade shows in the world is nothing short of inspirational.

Read More
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