Retail Level Up

Learn great information on how to take charge of your career, overcome your feelings of being not good enough, the most important skills to help you have the career you truly want, and the inside tips to managing-up like a pro!  

Lynn Whitbeck is the founder & CEO of Petite2Queen and Future Forward Sales. She helps the world by providing sales and leadership training programs to achieve more, faster. Lynn is the catalyst for businesses to turn their sales teams into revenue generating champions.  Learn more about what Lynn and her team offers be visiting www.Petite2Queen.com and www.FutureForwardSales.com  

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Meet Holly Kraft, founder and owner of Druthers, a men's apparel store located in Fargo, North Dakota. Druthers carries men's lifestyle apparel brands that speak to the store's founding beliefs: be a better person, do the right thing, and personal & professional growth.  

Holly has been in the retail industry for her entire career and had a life-long desire to open her own store. After researching the retail scene in her community, she decided a casual men's store was as area of opportunity. The planned opening date of her brick-and-mortar store was in the midst of the shut-downs of COVID in early 2020,  but undaunted, she persevered and is now open and thriving!  Learn Holly's top tips for how to successfully launch and run a brick-and-mortar store in this Moment with Mickey by Retail Level Up.  

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Ever dreamed of owning your own restaurant or bar? Learn some inside tips from a successful owner, Brandon Emch, of Baxter's on Cedar and Baxter's The Backdoor located in Sandpoint, Idaho.  Brandon shares tips from his career-long work in the food and beverage industry: effort, communication, motivation, making the most of every bit of time during a shift, plus much more. Listen to Brandon's down-to-earth approach and learn how you can use his ideas to make the most of whatever work you are doing today.

Thank you for listening! Retail Level Up provides coaching, training, and consulting services to individuals and teams. Visit www.retaillevelup.com  to learn more and to schedule a free consultation.

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Amy Wolf and Chef Arion Canniff opened The Dog Spot on Black Friday 2017. The concept is a small cafe focused on fresh-made foods, international fusion flavors and smaller, healthier portions with wine, beer and cider from the Inland and Pacific Northwest PLUS a small retail shop filled with pet gear and treats, and human clothing and accessories with pet themes (like a tiny Rainforest Cafe, but with dogs & cats).

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You want to make a change. You decide to do it. Great! Then what? For some reason, you never make it happen. Learn how one simple thing can bring about the change you truly want. It is so simple, yet most people overlook it. Find out how to do, be, and have more of what you want in your career, and life. 

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What does it take to attract and retain the best people? It takes good leadership skills. That includes communication, listening, feedback, and all those other "soft skills". There's a big difference in being the boss, or a manager, and being an effective leader. That difference is the key to reducing turnover, avoiding the costs and headaches of constantly trying to find new people. Get back to basics!

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Ever felt you were too busy to stop for gas? We've all had those moments when work is just so crazy busy we lose sight of doing those little, seemingly insignificant tasks. Those little things that are easy to put off, until we eventually realize we've put them off too long and now how are we going to pick them back up again?  There are 3 key building blocks to establishing a strong foundation in any business. Learn what those are in today's Moment with Mickey. #RetailLevelUp #Retail #BrickAndMortar #leadership #coaching #entrepreneur #ItCanBeDone #MomentWithMickey   Thank you for listening! Be sure to visit our website at www.retaillevelup.com Long live brick and mortar!!

When starting, maintaining, or growing a business, sustainability and scalability need to be carefully considered. There's an easy model that helps bring focus to the three critical areas of any business: products/services assortment, marketing, and pricing. The model: Offering the BEST, to the MOST, at the LEAST will help bring focus to these three critical areas. 

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What is "servant leadership"? It's been around for a really long time. It is one of the BEST approaches to leading a team and building a world-class organization. Learn the 10 Key Characteristics of how to be a servant leader in this Moment with Mickey.

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In this new world of customization and personalization, the brick-and-mortar retailer has the opportunity to make the customer's experience really unique and memorable. Learn these easy 5 steps of how to attract and retain customers by using BLOOM. 

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