I try to listen to my audience as much as possible. And sometimes it’s helpful to ask you direct questions. It’s been a couple of years since I launched Savvy Shopkeeper and 7 months since I started dedicating more time to it. So, I felt it was time to get some feedback from you. That’s…
I’m excited to announce I’ll be giving away one ticket to Whizbang’s 2019 Retail Success Summit! Retail Success Summit is a full 2-day conference for brick and mortar retail store owners hosted by WhizBang Retail Training. The 2019 Summit will be held in Grand Rapids, Michigan on Tuesday, July 9, 2019, and Wednesday, July 10,…
A few months ago, the brick and mortar store owners in the Shopkeepers Lab Group started talking about Sales Per Square Footage (SPSF). Some shopkeepers weren’t familiar with this metric and many didn’t know how to calculate it for their business. So I wrote a blog post about how to calculate SPSF and I included a…
The topic of “paying yourself” comes up fairly often in our membership groups. It always surprises me that at least half of the shop owners in the group don’t pay themselves. And I have to tell you, this topic tugs at me almost daily. I often tell myself that I’m going to find a way…
I’ve spent the past 3 1/2 years teaching myself how to start and run a retail store. Even with all of the business related websites and resources out there, I was surprised to find I still had to piece it all together. For a small and independent retail store owner I had to learn how…