#76 - Making a Difference with Your Business with Shop Good

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🗓️ 14 June 2016

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Justin and Audrey Falk of Shop Good OKC join us to offer their perspective on being boss with a brick and mortar retail store. We're talking about sustainability and ethics in business, meeting product demands and not feeling like a sellout, and translating the feel of a brick and mortar store to an online space.-Origin story of Shop Good (3:19)-Transitioning to a curated shop (12:51)-Creating a business model with a focus on giving back (13:19)-Fast fashion vs. slow fashion (15:45)-Sourcing from ethical businesses and finding a balance in business ethics (18:55)-Picking your battles when buying sustainably + ethically (22:08)-Advice for people wanting to start a brick and mortar store (35:11)-Strategies to make brick and mortar businesses grow (45:19)-Meeting product demands without feeling like a sellout (49:48)-Translating a brick and mortar shop feel to an online space (56:42)-Moving forward with a purposeful strategy to grow a business that started as grassroots (1:01:44)-Challenge to support your local shops (1:18:12)

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Being Boss episode number 76. This episode is brought to you by Fresh
0:06.8	Books Cloud Accounting. Being Boss in work and life is being in it. It's being who we are, doing the work,
0:20.0	breaking some rules, and even though we each have to do it on our own
0:24.3	Being Boss is knowing we're in it together
0:27.5	Today we are so excited to have my good friends Justin and Audrey Falk from Shop Good O'KC with us on Being Boss.
0:35.3	So we wanted to have Shop Good on Being Boss because we have so many creatives listening to
0:41.9	the show that offers services and or maybe like graphic
0:44.8	designers or photographers but we haven't really talked with anyone who actually has
0:49.6	a retail store and I know that a lot of you all are interested in retail or maybe you make physical products yourself
0:55.8	So we wanted to bring some experts on to talk about that
0:59.5	So Justin and Audrey not only have a physical location, they also have an online store at
1:05.0	shopgood okayc.com. They curate goods from other people but they also have their own line and I want
1:12.0	to dig in and really talk to them about what it's like
1:14.3	to have a brick and mortar shop and to make their own stuff. But first we got to talk about
1:20.3	fresh books. In today's episode we are talking all about retail and
1:25.0	retail and selling products and we actually get a lot of questions from our
1:28.6	listeners who are interested in using fresh books if it is good for
1:32.2	small businesses that are tracking more retail or selling products.
1:37.0	And the truth is Fresh Books is built for service-based creatives.
1:41.0	So if you're a photographer, web designer, graphic designer, developer,
1:47.9	coach, lots of life coaches use Fresh Books. If you are offering a service and getting paid for your expertise, Fresh Books is really ideal for you.
1:58.0	You can send out invoices and look like a professional doing it.
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