Tough economies reward tough jewelers. How is the current economic turmoil affecting America’s jewelers so far? One of the best barometers is INSTORE’S Brain Squad....
The current economic troubles are nothing more than a speed bump on the path to growth. Scary times out there. The sound bite most of...
It’s your shortcomings that make you real. There comes a time in life when it makes more sense to embrace your weaknesses than to...
A trip to the future site of the INSTORE show Last month, we held a site visit and advisory board meeting at Chicago’s Navy Pier,...
Two divisions debut in America’s Coolest Stores It’s here: the seventh edition of our annual hunt for America’s most innovative jewelry stores — INSTORE’s America’s...
This new software type can really help you manage.It’s the blazing hot heart of summer and (for many of you) business is pretty durned slow. Want...
Give us three weeks … we’ll give you a new life SOME OF YOU have no problems motivating yourself. You see a challenge off in the...
Viva Las Vegas … Squad t-shirts … Cool coming RANDOM THOUGHTS: because, after a hectic trip to Las Vegas and back, there’s little time for anything...
It's a tough choice. Do you shoot for superior service, or immediate profits? FROM THE EXECUTIVE EDITOR It's always been a hard call. You read one set...
To beat the bad guys we need to band together AT A QUIET MOMENT moment in just about every buddy-cop movie ever made, one buddy looks...
Remember… there is life after jewelry retail.
(Almost) everything teaches us a lesson. THIS MONTH, we’re continuing our efforts to get everybody in the retail jewelry community to understand each other a little...
Success breeds paranoia ? and lots more work IF BEING GENUINELY COOL IS not caring about what other people think, then we probably come up a...
New rules for ?America’s coolest stores’ FOR YEARS, we’ve fought the idea of tinkering with INSTORE’S most popular annual feature, our ?America’s Coolest Stores? contest. But...
Who says jewelers are stuffy and intimidating? DOES HUMOR HAVE A PLACE in jewelry sales? If you’ve read our magazine frequently ? or even infrequently...
Are you getting the service you deserve? HEY, IT AIN’T EASY BEING YOU. And we’re always on the lookout for ways to make your life easier. ...
Education's tough, but usually worth it
A little extra content never hurt anyone WHEW! WHEW! WHEWWWWWW! If you couldn’t tell already ? from the delirious gibberish that sometimes appears in this space...
New look, new features … it’s instore 4.0 THE NEW YEAR HAS BEGUN, and like you, we’re chomping at the bit to shake things up in...
You think you’ve had a really bad idea … THE TITLE of this edition’s lead story is ?Worst. Ideas. Ever.? In it, we have a bit...
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