So maybe you took the summer off or maybe sales have just stagnated a bit lately. Either way, you need to get buyers back into your store to buy some of that great merchandise you have in there and start to kick off the holiday sales season. But how do you get buyers through your [...]
In 1997, Jim Carrey took the stage at the Golden Globes to present an award and said with a huge smile, “How was your weekend? Mine was good.” This got a huge laugh from the crowd because that room was full of entertainment industry professionals that knew that his movie, Liar Liar, had just ruled [...]
I just wanted to write a quick note to explain the lack of posts recently. As you guys know, I don’t just talk the talk but I also walk the walk and I, like the rest of you, am in the retail game so November/December is a very crazy time of year for me as [...]
As my newest book, The Trading Assistant’s Assistant got two great reviews recently, one from Blogcritics and one from Armchair Interviews, I wanted to take a quick time-out from part two of the buyer’s glossary to talk a little turkey (Thanksgiving Day pun intended!) about starting a Trading Assistant business. Why, you ask? Well, frankly, [...]
