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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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20 New Year’s Resolutions for Business Owners

Today our host Ashley Alderson, founder of the Boutique Hub, goes over the top 20 New Year’s Resolutions for Business Owners. The New Year is here, and that means it’s time to get motivated and prepared for the year ahead! Ashley goes into detail on the New Year’s Resolutions that will make 2020 the best year yet. Tune in to find out more!

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Building Your Boutique Business with Gratitude

Today our host Ashley Alderson, founder of the Boutique Hub, releases a solo episode on Building Your Business with Gratitude. As we end this year and look forward to the year to come, we need to pause and express all of our gratitude.

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6 Tips To Improve Your In-Store Customer Experience

Improve Your In-Store Customer Experience: 6 Tips

With mobile shopping taking the reins, brick-and-mortar shop owners are looking for creative ways to bring customers into their store. However, improving your in-store experience isn’t limited to out of the box implementations. Even simple upgrades of the store environment can make a difference.  Let’s improve your in-store customer experience today! Here are a few ideas to help you enhance the in-store experience of your customers.  1. Provide A Customized

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Tax Season

5 Tasks To Complete NOW to Prepare for Tax Season

I know, I know. It’s not even January yet, but tax season will come sooner than you think!! This article is a strategy guide for tax season for boutique owners. Yet, as a boutique retail or wholesale business, there are a few tax-saving tasks I’d like you to consider as you ring in the new year.   So here are 5 retail-specific tasks you should complete NOW to prepare for tax season: 1.

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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

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

Read More

20 New Year’s Resolutions for Business Owners

Today our host Ashley Alderson, founder of the Boutique Hub, goes over the top 20 New Year’s Resolutions for Business Owners. The New Year is here, and that means it’s time to get motivated and prepared for the year ahead! Ashley goes into detail on the New Year’s Resolutions that will make 2020 the best year yet. Tune in to find out more!

Read More

Building Your Boutique Business with Gratitude

Today our host Ashley Alderson, founder of the Boutique Hub, releases a solo episode on Building Your Business with Gratitude. As we end this year and look forward to the year to come, we need to pause and express all of our gratitude.

Read More
6 Tips To Improve Your In-Store Customer Experience

Improve Your In-Store Customer Experience: 6 Tips

With mobile shopping taking the reins, brick-and-mortar shop owners are looking for creative ways to bring customers into their store. However, improving your in-store experience isn’t limited to out of the box implementations. Even simple upgrades of the store environment can make a difference.  Let’s improve your in-store customer experience today! Here are a few ideas to help you enhance the in-store experience of your customers.  1. Provide A Customized

Read More
Tax Season

5 Tasks To Complete NOW to Prepare for Tax Season

I know, I know. It’s not even January yet, but tax season will come sooner than you think!! This article is a strategy guide for tax season for boutique owners. Yet, as a boutique retail or wholesale business, there are a few tax-saving tasks I’d like you to consider as you ring in the new year.   So here are 5 retail-specific tasks you should complete NOW to prepare for tax season: 1.

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