What Vendors Wish Boutique Owners Knew To Be Successful
Boutique Chat
Ashley Alderson
5 • 853 Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Calling all boutique owners and wholesale brands! This is an episode you won’t want to miss! Today we're joined by Molly Wilson, one of the brightest minds in the industry, as well as the founder of Molly & You and BEST of Show. If you’ve been around the Boutique Hub for long enough, you probably recognize her name from her incredibly valuable feedback and support for fellow community members.
Listen in as Molly gives her perspective from the vendor side and shares valuable tips and takeaways on forming partnerships that will create long-lasting and mutually beneficial relationships between vendors and retailers. We also dive into her experience, from running a top-performing retail store and starting her own gourmet food brand to launching BEST of Show, a wholesale vendor for U.S. retailers. This is such an honest and straightforward conversation that is absolutely jam-packed with wisdom, so make sure you don’t miss it!
Learn More About the Boutique Hub Here: https://theboutiquehub.com/join/boutique/
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, calling all boutique owners and wholesale brands, man, this episode is for you. |
| 0:04.6 | I'm so pumped today to be talking to someone who I feel like is one of the brightest minds |
| 0:08.4 | in our industry. She's so incredibly talented and experienced and creative, and she is sharing |
| 0:14.6 | tons of mega nuggets for all angles of the industry today. Molly Wilson is the founder of Molly and you, a food-related |
| 0:24.1 | company that many of you are familiar with in the home and gift space, also huge in the boutique |
| 0:29.3 | and live-selling space, as well as the founder of Best of Show, a huge showroom based in Atlanta. |
| 0:35.5 | She's a very active member inside of the boutique hub with not only |
| 0:38.9 | her brand, but all of the brands represented in Best of Show. And she's so willing, on a regular |
| 0:44.2 | basis, to drop feedback and ideas and nuggets of support for fellow members. Today, not only do we |
| 0:50.5 | dive in for her experience of running a retail store, a large retail store, |
| 0:56.4 | mind you, being the top performing hallmark store in the country, what it took from then to go |
| 1:02.1 | from retail to starting her own wholesale brand and manufacturing in the food industry to then |
| 1:08.5 | starting a showroom in Atlanta called Best of Show. |
| 1:14.6 | One of the things I think is most important about this episode today, you guys, |
| 1:21.5 | is that she talks from the angle of a vendor about what it's like to work with boutique owners, |
| 1:23.5 | the good and the bad. |
| 1:28.6 | There are definitely some huge tips and takeaways that are shared in love today, both from Molly and myself, on how we both think partnerships can be formed that are going to create much |
| 1:34.5 | longer lasting relationships between vendors and retailers. The things that we all need to hear, |
| 1:41.3 | again, wrapped in love. I love this episode. It is so honest and straightforward and |
| 1:46.0 | packed with tips and ideas and information. I can't wait for you to meet Molly. So let's get |
| 1:50.9 | into it. Molly Wilson of Molly and you and best of show. Let's talk about your business, strategy, and the juicy details of what actually works, from |
| 2:04.4 | mainstream fashion to fashion on Main Street, and the entire ecosystem behind it. |
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