If you run a retail holiday shop and are looking for some last-minute holiday tips, I’d like to share a few. Personally, we have not run a holiday store in many years, but reading the tips and trends are still…
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Category: Holiday Tips
Do You Have a Holiday Marketing Plan?
Even thought we are still in September, time is getting short for holiday sales planning. Do you have your holiday marketing plan in place yet? Once sales start rolling in, you won’t have time to thinking about planning or marketing. …
Planning to Exhibit in Holiday Retail Shows?
Since the largest percentage of product sales are made during the last quarter of the year, it make good business sense to exhibit in holiday retail shows. We, as Tastes of Idaho, have done numerous holiday retail shows over the…
Are Your Holiday Shipping Systems in Place?
Now is the time to get serious about holiday planning. Over the last few weeks, I have published the following articles on the subject: When Should I Start Holiday Planning? Have You Started Your Holiday Planning? Today, I want to…
Have You Started Your Holiday Planning?
A few weeks ago, I wrote an article, When Should I Start Holiday Planning, where I gave a month ‘to do’ list of holiday plan, starting with January. If you are like most producers, sales during the holiday season are…
When Should I Start Holiday Planning?
It is never too early to start planning for holiday sales! Typically, we start our planning in January, after the holidays are over from the previous year. Here is a list of some of the January planning we do for…
Preparing for the Holiday Season, Part 2
Last week I posted an article on several of the best tips (collected from previous years) on how to prepare for the holiday season. (If you missed this article, check it out here) Recently, I found two more excellent articles…
Preparing for the Holiday Season
In all the years I’ve worked in retail and wholesaling, I know this time of the year is often stressful for both stores and producers. On one hand, getting all kinds of wholesale or retail orders can be very exciting,…
Tips for Shipping Orders
The holiday season is coming up quickly. At the end of August, families are coming home from vacations, kids are getting ready to return to school, and we are starting to think about holiday products! At this time of the…
5 Tips for Thriving During the Holiday
Stress is at an all time high during the holidays and it is even higher for small business trying to get orders shipped in a timely order. Personally, we were only getting a dribble or orders until this weekend when…
Taking Responsibility for Your Business
December is the time of year when orders can get lost, packed wrong or even sent out incorrectly. The crazy business that goes on this time of the year makes it hard to keep up and mistakes are easier to…
Six Holiday Sales Mistakes
This is a busy time of the year for most producers who sell retail or wholesale. Personally, we do nearly 2/3rd of our Tastes of Idaho business this time of the year. Having said that, I was looking for a…