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The Power of a Gen Z and Gen X Team

The Power of a Gen Z and Gen X Team

Today Vanessa LeVan and Wren LeVan from Blush Out West Boutique join us for The Power of a Gen Z and Gen X Team. They go over the marketing strategies that work best for them, why you need both the left and right brain in your business, and most importantly why a Gen Z and Gen X Team is so powerful!

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Pieces To Have In Your Clothing Line

How Many Pieces To Have In Your Clothing Line

As others gear up for swimsuit shopping, I get ready to buy my winter coats. Once snowy weather hits, I head out to buy swimwear, pool toys, and summer outfits. I configured my inverted shopping schedule around the discounts that accompany overstocked clothing items belonging to a soon-to-be expired season. Since fashion trends change quickly, many shop owners try to rid last season’s clothing using heavy discounts. However, if they

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Key Tips for Creating a Successful Online Boutique with Alana Stohr, Owner of Eleven Oaks Boutique

Key Tips for Creating a Successful Online Boutique

Today Alana Stohr, Owner of Eleven Oaks Boutique, joins us for Key Tips for Creating a Successful Online Boutique. Alana had spoken at the Boutique Summit and she’s back to give even more insight on what it takes to create a successful business. She goes over how important brand consistency is, how gratitude will grow your business and explains why it’s so important to have a good team. Tune in to hear even more about Alana’s journey in growing a successful online boutique!

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Dos and Don’ts of Text Message Marketing

Today Bobby Angilella, co-founder of Slick Text, joins us for the Dos and Don’ts of Text Message Marketing. He goes over all the guidelines of text message marketing and how you can create the most successful marketing strategy.

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POS Software Trends for Boutiques

POS Software Trends for Boutique Owners

This guest blog post courtesy of Celerant Retail breaks down the 6 POS Software Trends we’re seeing in the boutique industry today. #1  Mobile Payments and Tablet POS As the digital push leads us to redefine retail, it also pulls us away from two industry staples; cash and cash registers. Cash is slowly losing its reign as the preferred payment method as 73 percent of respondents of a Mastercard survey

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#242 | Off-Price Buying Tricia Barglof, executive director of the OFF PRICE Trade show

Off-Price Buying for Boutiques

Today Tricia Barglof, executive director of the OFFPRICE Trade Show, joins us for Off-Price Buying. Buying off-price gives you the opportunity to maximize your profits by purchasing overstocked/last seasons goods at the lowest price on the market.

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Loyalty Programs Can Impact Your Boutique Business

How Loyalty Programs Can Impact Your Boutique Business

According to David Sambor, a leading expert in loyalty programs, acquiring new customers is 7x more expensive than retaining an existing one and compared to new customers, existing customers are 50% more likely to try a new product and spend 31% more on average. Retention has 2-3 times more impact on your growth than acquisition does and a 5% increase in customer retention can increase profitability by 75%!!! All this

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12 Crucial Tips for Boutique Owner Success

Today Sara Burks and Ashley Alderson will go over the 12 Crucial Tips for Boutique Owner Success. These 12 focus areas are apart of this year’s Retail Bootcamp course. Retail Bootcamp isn’t just for those who feel their business is failing; your business will always have areas to improve on and grow. Retail is shifting and expanding every day, its time to be prepared. After today’s podcast, you will be astounded by all aspects of your business you may have overlooked. Let’s start transforming your business today, tune in to find out how!

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Sell More During Peak Hours

How to Sell More During Peak Hours

Most retailers share the goal of driving more in-store foot traffic, but what good are more customers if you aren’t selling more during peak hours?  Whether it’s through cross-selling and upselling, promotions or just flat-out amazing customer service—learning how to sell more during peak hours is a must for any retailer that wants to grow.  <Guest Blog Post> In this post, let’s focus on how you can do just that. We break

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The Power of a Gen Z and Gen X Team

The Power of a Gen Z and Gen X Team

Today Vanessa LeVan and Wren LeVan from Blush Out West Boutique join us for The Power of a Gen Z and Gen X Team. They go over the marketing strategies that work best for them, why you need both the left and right brain in your business, and most importantly why a Gen Z and Gen X Team is so powerful!

Read More
Pieces To Have In Your Clothing Line

How Many Pieces To Have In Your Clothing Line

As others gear up for swimsuit shopping, I get ready to buy my winter coats. Once snowy weather hits, I head out to buy swimwear, pool toys, and summer outfits. I configured my inverted shopping schedule around the discounts that accompany overstocked clothing items belonging to a soon-to-be expired season. Since fashion trends change quickly, many shop owners try to rid last season’s clothing using heavy discounts. However, if they

Read More
Key Tips for Creating a Successful Online Boutique with Alana Stohr, Owner of Eleven Oaks Boutique

Key Tips for Creating a Successful Online Boutique

Today Alana Stohr, Owner of Eleven Oaks Boutique, joins us for Key Tips for Creating a Successful Online Boutique. Alana had spoken at the Boutique Summit and she’s back to give even more insight on what it takes to create a successful business. She goes over how important brand consistency is, how gratitude will grow your business and explains why it’s so important to have a good team. Tune in to hear even more about Alana’s journey in growing a successful online boutique!

Read More

Dos and Don’ts of Text Message Marketing

Today Bobby Angilella, co-founder of Slick Text, joins us for the Dos and Don’ts of Text Message Marketing. He goes over all the guidelines of text message marketing and how you can create the most successful marketing strategy.

Read More
POS Software Trends for Boutiques

POS Software Trends for Boutique Owners

This guest blog post courtesy of Celerant Retail breaks down the 6 POS Software Trends we’re seeing in the boutique industry today. #1  Mobile Payments and Tablet POS As the digital push leads us to redefine retail, it also pulls us away from two industry staples; cash and cash registers. Cash is slowly losing its reign as the preferred payment method as 73 percent of respondents of a Mastercard survey

Read More
#242 | Off-Price Buying Tricia Barglof, executive director of the OFF PRICE Trade show

Off-Price Buying for Boutiques

Today Tricia Barglof, executive director of the OFFPRICE Trade Show, joins us for Off-Price Buying. Buying off-price gives you the opportunity to maximize your profits by purchasing overstocked/last seasons goods at the lowest price on the market.

Read More
Loyalty Programs Can Impact Your Boutique Business

How Loyalty Programs Can Impact Your Boutique Business

According to David Sambor, a leading expert in loyalty programs, acquiring new customers is 7x more expensive than retaining an existing one and compared to new customers, existing customers are 50% more likely to try a new product and spend 31% more on average. Retention has 2-3 times more impact on your growth than acquisition does and a 5% increase in customer retention can increase profitability by 75%!!! All this

Read More

12 Crucial Tips for Boutique Owner Success

Today Sara Burks and Ashley Alderson will go over the 12 Crucial Tips for Boutique Owner Success. These 12 focus areas are apart of this year’s Retail Bootcamp course. Retail Bootcamp isn’t just for those who feel their business is failing; your business will always have areas to improve on and grow. Retail is shifting and expanding every day, its time to be prepared. After today’s podcast, you will be astounded by all aspects of your business you may have overlooked. Let’s start transforming your business today, tune in to find out how!

Read More
Sell More During Peak Hours

How to Sell More During Peak Hours

Most retailers share the goal of driving more in-store foot traffic, but what good are more customers if you aren’t selling more during peak hours?  Whether it’s through cross-selling and upselling, promotions or just flat-out amazing customer service—learning how to sell more during peak hours is a must for any retailer that wants to grow.  <Guest Blog Post> In this post, let’s focus on how you can do just that. We break

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