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INSTORE Show Spotlight: Pump Up Your Skills During the Brain Trust Workshop

Learn about recruiting and hiring, retaining top talent, customer service, inventory management, marketing, diamond sales and more.

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2 years ago

June 19, 2023

INSTORE Staff

Get ready for the most powerful one-day workshop ever created for jewelry retailers: The Brain Trust Workshop, taking place Saturday, Aug. 12 at The INSTORE Show.

Join INSTORE columnists for an in-depth, hands-on workshop to improve your skills in recruiting and hiring, retaining top talent, customer service, inventory management, marketing, diamond sales (lab-grown and mined), data-driven store events, and how to recession-proof your business.

Our presenters: Megan Crabtree, Jimmy DeGroot, Sherry Smith and Peter Smith, will moderate discussion among attendees at their tables to develop solutions specific to each attendee’s store.

Attendees will be placed at tables with other store owners whose businesses share similar attributes (yet disparate markets) so that each can help and be helped by their fellow business owners.

This workshop is designed for retail store owners only and limited to just 64 participants. Your ticket includes breakfast and lunch.

Learn more and register today at theinstoreshow.com .

WORKSHOP SCHEDULE

8 a.m. – Breakfast
8:30 a.m. – Introduction
9 a.m. – What’s Next for Lab-Grown Diamonds
10 a.m. – Break
10:15 a.m. – Developing Store Events Driven by Data
11:15 a.m. – Managing Your Inventory by the Numbers
12:15 p.m. – Lunch
12:45 p.m. – Recruiting, Hiring and Retaining Top Talent
1:45 p.m. – Building your bridal business
2:45 p.m. – Break
3:00 p.m. – Getting the Most Out of Your Team
4:00 p.m. – Q&A with the Presenters
4:30 p.m. – Leave for Welcome Reception

Retiring? Let Wilkerson Do the Heavy Lifting

Retirement can be a great part of life. As Nanji Singadia puts it, “I want to retire and enjoy my life. I’m 78 now and I just want to take a break.” That said, Nanji decided that the best way to move ahead was to contact the experts at Wilkerson. He chose them because he knew that closing a store is a heavy lift. To maximize sales and move on to the next, best chapter of his life, he called Wilkerson—but not before asking his industry friends for their opinion. He found that Wilkerson was the company most recommended and says their professionalism, experience and the homework they did before the launch all helped to make his going out of business sale a success. “Wilkerson were working on the sale a month it took place,” he says. “They did a great job.”