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Trademarking Your Business

Starting a business is an exciting venture, but it’s also a journey filled with critical decisions that shape the future of your brand. One of the most important steps you can take early on is trademarking your business. This legal safeguard not only protects your business name, logo, or slogan but also ensures you have exclusive rights to your brand identity. Here’s why trademarking is essential and how to get started.

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Holiday Retail Tip: USPS Shipping Cutoff

The holiday season is the busiest time of year for retailers, and getting your marketing strategy in place is essential to make the most of it. A significant date to focus on this season? The USPS shipping cutoff. Here’s a guide to leveraging this deadline to boost profits, keep customers happy, and make sure every sale counts.

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Holiday Retail Tip: Make It Easy

What are you doing to make your customers’ lives easier? This is an important question any time of year, but especially during the holiday season—aka customer acquisition season. Everybody is buying during this time, so listen in to hear a quick, simple tip that will make it as easy and convenient as possible for people to buy from you.

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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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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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Identifying Traffic Patterns

Do you ever feel like a squirrel? Like you have 10,000 things to get done all at once—and you don’t know where to start? If so, today’s Five Minute Friday is for you! Listen in as I break down the six layers of retail and explain how to assess where you are in each so that you can tackle the most important roles in your business first.

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The Six Layers of Business

Do you ever feel like a squirrel? Like you have 10,000 things to get done all at once—and you don’t know where to start? If so, today’s Five Minute Friday is for you! Listen in as I break down the six layers of retail and explain how to assess where you are in each so that you can tackle the most important roles in your business first.

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The One Thing

When it comes to you being the CEO of your business and of your life, you want to be getting the most done every day. But how do you do that? By answering one simple question every day. Listen in to learn what that question is and why The ONE Thing by Gary Keller is one of the most impactful books I’ve ever read.

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Value vs Pride

Today, we’re diving into one of my absolute favorite topics: marketing, brand positioning, and understanding how to serve your customers. If you’re part of the Boutique Hub community or have attended Retail Bootcamp, you’ll know how passionate I am about this subject. Today, we’ll explore the critical difference between value and price, especially in a challenging year like 2024.

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How to Be a Good Retail Neighbor

Today, I want to share a short and sweet message on how to be a good neighbor—a crucial topic that often comes up in our membership community at the Boutique Hub. Whether you’re a retailer or a wholesale business owner, building good relationships with your neighbors can significantly impact your business.

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Trademarking Your Business

Starting a business is an exciting venture, but it’s also a journey filled with critical decisions that shape the future of your brand. One of the most important steps you can take early on is trademarking your business. This legal safeguard not only protects your business name, logo, or slogan but also ensures you have exclusive rights to your brand identity. Here’s why trademarking is essential and how to get started.

Read More

Holiday Retail Tip: USPS Shipping Cutoff

The holiday season is the busiest time of year for retailers, and getting your marketing strategy in place is essential to make the most of it. A significant date to focus on this season? The USPS shipping cutoff. Here’s a guide to leveraging this deadline to boost profits, keep customers happy, and make sure every sale counts.

Read More

Holiday Retail Tip: Make It Easy

What are you doing to make your customers’ lives easier? This is an important question any time of year, but especially during the holiday season—aka customer acquisition season. Everybody is buying during this time, so listen in to hear a quick, simple tip that will make it as easy and convenient as possible for people to buy from you.

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

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

Identifying Traffic Patterns

Do you ever feel like a squirrel? Like you have 10,000 things to get done all at once—and you don’t know where to start? If so, today’s Five Minute Friday is for you! Listen in as I break down the six layers of retail and explain how to assess where you are in each so that you can tackle the most important roles in your business first.

Read More

The Six Layers of Business

Do you ever feel like a squirrel? Like you have 10,000 things to get done all at once—and you don’t know where to start? If so, today’s Five Minute Friday is for you! Listen in as I break down the six layers of retail and explain how to assess where you are in each so that you can tackle the most important roles in your business first.

Read More

The One Thing

When it comes to you being the CEO of your business and of your life, you want to be getting the most done every day. But how do you do that? By answering one simple question every day. Listen in to learn what that question is and why The ONE Thing by Gary Keller is one of the most impactful books I’ve ever read.

Read More

Value vs Pride

Today, we’re diving into one of my absolute favorite topics: marketing, brand positioning, and understanding how to serve your customers. If you’re part of the Boutique Hub community or have attended Retail Bootcamp, you’ll know how passionate I am about this subject. Today, we’ll explore the critical difference between value and price, especially in a challenging year like 2024.

Read More

How to Be a Good Retail Neighbor

Today, I want to share a short and sweet message on how to be a good neighbor—a crucial topic that often comes up in our membership community at the Boutique Hub. Whether you’re a retailer or a wholesale business owner, building good relationships with your neighbors can significantly impact your business.

Read More
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