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Expanding Horizons: The Why and How of Online Marketplaces for Independent Retailers
In Episode 49 of Material Retail Dumps, we delve into the world of online marketplaces, demystifying their structure and operations. Learn why as an independent retail...
Your AI Sidekick: Uncovering the Potential of ChatGPT for Independent Retailers
In the fast-paced retail landscape, staying ahead often means having the right help at your fingertips. Discover how ChatGPT can become an indispensable assistant to i...
Unlocking Shopify's Hidden Power: A Guide to Metafields
🎙 Episode 47: Unlocking Shopify's Hidden Power: A Guide to MetafieldsWelcome to another enlightening episode of Material Retail Dumps! Today, we're unraveling the myst...
Episode 46: Increase Your Shopify Sales with These 5 Channels
Welcome to Episode 46 of Material Retail Dumps! This week, we're tackling a topic that's crucial for all Shopify store owners—how to diversify your sales channels for ...
SEO For Independent Retailers
 What is SEO? - A quick rundown of what SEO means and why it's crucial for your online and offline business.SEO for Brick-and-Mortar Businesses - Discover easy-to-impl...
The Best Funding Option For Independent Retailers
In this episode we have a special guest from the lending industry who discusses the best type of loan for an independent retailer. NO Merchant cash advances here!Â
Funding Options For Retailers
In this episode, we are going to talk about a few funding options. Lines of Credits, merchant cash advances, and more. Take a listen to learn a bit about the funding w...
Collecting and Using Customer Data
In this episode we talk about the importance of collecting customer data, why you should collect customer data, and what to do with it. We also discuss the best ways t...
Using Data to Bring Customers Back In Store! With a Special Guest
Welcome to Episode 41 of Material Retail Dumps, the podcast that explores the world of retail and provides insights on how to navigate the ever-changing landscape. In ...
5 Ways To Use Chat GPT In Your Retail or Ecommerce Business
🚀 "Unlock the Power of AI in Retail & Ecommerce! 🚀 In this video, we delve into the innovative world of AI, exploring 5 key ways you can integrate OpenAI's ChatGPT int...
A Quick Strategy To Use Social Media To Get Customers In Store
This is another episode in our series about bringing customers back into the store! We discuss a simple social media contest that you can use that really works to brin...
Bring Customers In Store: Parties
In this episode, we talk about parties and how you can use them to bring customers in-store. It doesn't have to be extravagant. Listen and learn how to get a real ROI ...
Websites Domains. YOU MUST LISTEN TO THIS.
Please please please listen to this episode. It's not fun and cool but this basic knowledge can save you a ton of headaches in the future. Learn about website domains ...
Loyalty Programs - Why You Need One!
In this episode we talk about loyalty programs and how to set them up. If you have one already take a listen to hear some ideas for making it more effective. If you do...
Digital Security Tips
This is the second episode of a two-part series where we discuss security tips! This part focuses on digital security tips. These basic tips will prevent you from pote...
In store Security Tips!
In this episode, we cover some basic in-store security tips designed to prevent losses related to theft and more. As a business owner, security needs to always be at t...
How & When To Promote Employees
This is the third and final episode in a three-part series designed to help you find, retain, and promote employees. Keeping your employees moving up the ladder will h...
How to Retain Employees
This is the second episode in a three-part series designed to help you hire, retain, and promote employees. Hiring is hard, training is hard, but retaining is easy! Li...
How to Find Employees
This is the first episode in a three-part series designed to help you find, retain, and promote employees. Employees are the life blood of every business so you'll wan...
SMS Marketing Strategies
In this episode, we talk about 3 different SMS marketing strategies and the best ways to implement them. SMS marketing can be a high ROI marketing channel as long as y...
Using Good Photography On Your Website
In this episode we talk about why it's important to use good images for your website and easy ways to get that done We'll also talk about things not to do which is som...
Don't Get Taken Advantage of by Vendors
This is the third and final episode of the series about not getting screwed over and keeping more money in your own pockets. This episode speaks about vendors and how ...
Don't Get Taken Advantage Of By Employees
This is the second in a three-part series about not getting taken advantage of and stolen from. This episode talks about employees and ensuring we keep as much of our ...
Don't Get Taken Advantage of By Customers
This is the first episode of a 3 part series designed to help you get taken advantage of less. There are many ways to make more money in business, one easy way is to l...
Running Paid Ads: Google Performance Max
In this episode, we talk about paid ads and the Google Performance Max program. We'll quickly dive into setting it up and starting to get sales from this program. It's...
Doing right for your business
This episode talks about how doing right for your employees, customers, and yourself will end up making you a more successful business owner. Listen to hear some ideas.Â
A little hack to stop paying credit card interest
In this episode, we talk about a fun way to game the system and save money on credit card interest. You should not need to pay the bank unnecessary interest so tune in...
Using your website to benefit your Brick and Mortar
This is the second episode in a two-part series about omnichannel retail. This episode offers a few ways to use your website to bring customers into your physical stor...
Using your store to benefit your website
In this episode, we talk about using your physical retail store to benefit your website. Listen to this episode to learn how to grow from 0 to 50,000 in online sales w...
3 Levels of Social Media for a positive ROI
This episode focuses on Social Media and ways to use it to generate more views which gets you more customers, but importantly, we need a positive ROI!