When Was The Last Time A Customer Said ‘Wow’?
When was the last time you customer said “Wow”? Learn how to identify the key moments on the customer journey and build a killer customer experience.
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Build Measure Learn: a New Approach to Retail Business
“Build – Measure – Learn”, the Lean approach focuses on short iterative cycles. Read about Lean Retail and discover how to use this framework for your business.
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60 seconds with Ike Escava from The Bean, Coffee Shop
Ike Escava owner at The Bean in New York City shares practical advices on retail business. Discover how to manage and set up your own coffee shop.
DetailsHere’s a way to celebrate National Small Business Week that could put $1,000—or perhaps even $10,000—into your small business bank account.
ShopKeep POS, the provider of cloud-based iPad point-of-sale and small business management software that we reported on here last month, announced this week that it will award a total of $15,000 to help a few winning small business owners turn their big ideas into reality.
The Small Biz, Big Ideas competition asks business owners to submit to the ShopKeep Facebook page an image of their business along with 500 characters describing the big idea they would most like to implement there.
At least for now, your odds are good. The competition, which opened yesterday, has two dozen entrants so far. Among them are small businesses seeking support for renovations, expansions, new product lines, website development, and equipment purchases. They include a children’s theater company seeking funding for audio and video equipment to make its plays more enjoyable, a pet store in need of funding to install a DIY doggie bath, and the founder of a startup that is getting ready to launch a line of vitamin vaporizers.
Official contest judges and public votes will decide the winner of a $10,000 grand prize, and five runners up will each receive $1,000.
The competition marks the launch of ShopKeep’s Counter Culture initiative—an online resource center and community dedicated to small business innovation.
ShopKeep founder and CEO Jason Richelson says, “Counter Culture represents a movement of innovative small business owners using technology to take back Main Street … The cloud has made enterprise-grade technology readily available to local business owners, who are using it to compete with the Goliaths of their industry. We’re going to help them win.”
Entries must be made by 12:00 pm EST on June 12, 2014. Only small business owners with 20 or fewer employees, in good standing, over 18 years of age, and residents of the U.S., excluding Rhode Island, may apply. For complete rules, see the ShopKeep Facebook page.
Small Business, Big Ideas: Your Chance to Win $10,000
If you’re a local entrepreneur, and you have a Big Idea on how to improve your product or business, share it with us now in our Small Biz, Big Ideas Contest.
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The Blunt Axe: Are You Working Hard? Or Working Smart?
Two woodsmen are entered into a famous wood cutting competition. One is big and strong, the other small and lean and both are known throughout the land for their skill with an axe. Who wins?
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Small Business and Social Media: Just Because You Built It Doesn’t Mean They’ll Come
Successful social media marketing requires more than just effort. Here are 3 common small business mistakes and how to avoid them.
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Technology and Retail : 3 Inventions That Won’t Change the Future of Retail
Great technology can change the world. We profile three new retail technology trends that probably won’t.
DetailsEnhanced Tender and Liability Tracking Now Available
ShopKeep POS App version 2.1 is now available. This is a major release enhancing the way tender types are tracked beyond the basic Cash, Credit, and Other.
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