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🗓️ 12 January 2024
⏱️ 66 minutes
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In this episode, I was joined by our retail professor Sara Burks to talk about the 2020 Retail Bootcamp and go through our 12 Crucial Tips for Boutique Owner Success that were a key focus of the course.
Retail Bootcamp isn’t just for those who feel their business is failing; your business will always have areas to improve on and grow. Retail is shifting and expanding every day, it’s time to be prepared. After today's podcast, you will be astounded by all aspects of your business you may have overlooked. Let’s start transforming your business today!
Our biggest annual educational program at The Hub is Retail Bootcamp (think college for boutique owners!) Sara and I do live coaching sessions, plus we’re joined by more than 50 industry experts. Enrollment is now open for 2024! Click the link below to learn more about this year’s Retail Bootcamp and enroll today! Best of all, once you sign up, you have lifetime access to participate each semester.
I so hope you enjoy this bonus episode From The Vault. It's one that is definitely worth hearing again — and taking notes!
For show notes & resources visit the episode webpage below or click here.
First released January 2020.
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0:00.0 | Guess what? You are invited to college for boutique owners. That's right. College for |
0:07.2 | boutique owners. It's called Retail Boot Camp. You may have heard us talk about it or if you were a |
0:12.0 | part of our best year yet series, you heard us dig into what is coming twice a year every year |
0:18.0 | here at the boutique hub when we launch retail boot camp for this semester. |
0:22.0 | Now, whether you are a brand new business owner or maybe you're someone who's growing and |
0:26.2 | scaling your business, maybe you are a multi-year, multi-million dollar boutique owner. |
0:32.3 | We have in fact worked with all types of retailers inside of boot camp. |
0:36.6 | Again, whether you're new, you're experienced, |
0:39.0 | whether you're a brick and mortar, you're online, whether you're on comments sold or you're a |
0:42.8 | home and gift boutique, children's boutiques, Canadian boutiques, international boutiques, |
0:46.8 | we have literally worked with all of them. And I hope I get to work with you as well. |
0:51.2 | This January and coming next June, twice a year we launched Retail Boot Camp, |
0:56.2 | and we step by step in Retail Boot Camp go over the six layers of your retail business. After |
1:02.6 | working with thousands of retailers, we realize that these six layers in order are the tried |
1:08.1 | and true way to really make and build a sustainable business that also allows |
1:12.9 | you to have the profitability that you want and the life that you want to live. So inside of these |
1:17.7 | six layers, we're going to dig into everything from your operations, your team, your company |
1:21.8 | culture, even if you're a solopreneur. We're going to talk about what happens and how the business |
1:26.2 | can run without you. We'll talk about how to build more profitability, manage your products, your inventory, your cash flow. We'll dig deep into your marketing, into your content planning, every single social channel, your ecommerce website, sales strategy, live sales strategy, Facebook ads, Google ads, SEO, and a little bit of everything in between. |
1:45.1 | Every single week for 14 weeks, Sarah Brooks and I coach live in our retail boot camp group |
1:50.4 | where you can come in, do Q&A, follow the week's lessons, implement the week's lessons, |
1:54.9 | and get further down the road in your business. Plus, I am a big believer and it's not always |
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