Ep. 6 Set Your Retail Business Up for Success with Taxes

Recently, I was on my weekly email newsletter zoom call with one of my team members, Sam. Sam is the owner of Heck Studios, and we’ve been working together for over a year. Sam hired me for coaching, and I hired her for her design talent. After her coaching ended, we continued to work together…

As a child, I grew up poor. I remember wanting a cash register and an adding machine so badly so that I could “play store.” It’s incredible to me as I look back now. I knew at such a young age that I wanted to be an entrepreneur. Fast forward to college, and I obtained…

With many stores shut down due to the pandemic, it’s time to get creative with selling online. While many store owners have projects that could fill the time that their shops are closed, those projects don’t necessarily pay the bills.  So how can brick-and-mortar shopkeepers get savvy about selling, even if they’ve never sold online?…

Many years ago, my sister and I considered moving to a different brick-and-mortar location. The first question a commercial realtor asked us was, “what is your sales per square foot?” I’m sure the look on my face said it all! Her question is what first prompted me to fall into the Google black hole. To…

While many of us turn to the internet when we have a specific business-related question, books are a way to go deeper on the more abstract ideas we grapple with as business owners. That’s why I’m sharing 8 books I’ve found valuable and helpful along my entrepreneurial journey.  Unfortunately, none of these are retail-specific books….

Since the COVID-19 pandemic started, I have… experienced fear with shopkeepers encouraged shopkeepers cried with many shopkeepers And I’ve experienced these emotions myself, along with many others. After deciding to close our store temporarily, the first two weeks were incredibly difficult. It was an adjustment at home and professionally. My intention is not to be…