Okay, raise your hand if you maybe are not naturally a numbers person. This was definitely me.

You guys have probably heard me mention this before, but I went to school for communications,

which is probably the exact opposite of numbers. And I find that so many entrepreneurs in the

retail and boutique industry are actually quite similar.

We get into this business because we love the art side of the business, the people,

the customers, all the pretty things, right?

The products.

But the thing that intimidates retailers most often is actually the number side, the retail

science side of the brain, the financial planning and

the inventory management and figuring out exactly how to pay yourself.

And that's why my friendship with Mary from Management 1 has grown so deeply.

Mary understands, of course, both the retail art and the retail science side of the brain

and has made it incredibly easy for so many

retailers to really break down and make sense of their inventory, how much inventory you need to

have on hand, what does your markdown strategy need to look like, and how can you start planning

and buying for your next season right away so that you can have less inventory left over at the end of the day and more money

in the bank. Isn't that the goal at the end of the day? Mary is someone I also really admire

because when it comes to the world of inventory management, she was one of the very first,

I'll say inventory experts that really latched on to and understood how to use Shopify.

So she can blend her love and knowledge of numbers and inventory across brick and mortar

boutiques, online boutiques, comments sold in live selling boutiques and really online retailers

and product sales stores of all types.

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