Last year, the data behind the retail labor market told a strange story. Between January and May, the US saw nearly 76,000 retail job cuts. At the same time, retail sales hadn't moved in seven
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THE BOSS BLOG
Every established owner knows this appointment. A bride tries on beautiful gowns, connects with your stylist, thanks everyone for a wonderful experience, and walks out to keep her appointments at t...
One hour, one conversation
On the second morning of our first BOSS retreat, I sat on the beach with one of our owners for about an hour. She has been in business for eight years and in BOSS for tw...
During the BOSS retreat, we loaded a group of our members into the car and drove them to a coffee shop down on 30A. We weren't going for the coffee. We'd all heard about this place because it went v...
This week I asked Claude a question I don't think most business owners think to ask their tools:
What do you believe you will never be able to do for a bridal shop owner running a multi-million dolla...
Jenna Dailey didn't grow up dreaming of owning a bridal shop. She grew up watching one on television.
Jenna is the owner of J Collection Bridal, tucked on the main street of a small town in the far n...
This year we sat down with our BOSS members to teach a full class on AI, not because it's trendy, but because the gap between shops that scale past a million and shops that stall below it usually isn'...
I hear bridal shop owners saying all the time about how "retail is dying...." but we don't subscribe to that belief around BOSS.
I've run a bridal shop for almost twenty years, and I still hear som...
Entrepreneur and friend Chandler Bolt was on my personal podcast, The Something New Show, a few weeks ago, and he said something about profit that I keep coming back to. He believes business is the gr...
Jolie Goodreau bought her bridal store off a conversation at a football game.
She wasn't looking for one. She'd spent fifteen years as a special education teacher, certified through high school with ...
At our last Bridal Stylist Accelerator, I got on stage and asked a room full of stylists and owners a question I ask constantly in coaching calls: who in your shop answers the phone?
Almost every ...
I asked one of my most successful BOSS members in Chicago last week a simple question.
For owners trying to close that last $300K or $500K gap to hit their revenue goal, what should they actually be...