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November 9, 2015

Going to work every day, it’s easy to forget exactly where you work. After all, it’s just your job, and a job’s a job. But every now and then, you have to take a look around and be amazed at the wonderful place where you work. You work in a museum! How great is that?

Museums are special places. They are the keepers of culture and history, where people are given the opportunity to tour both the unique and the mundane. Museums allow us to better understand what’s gone before and what’s going on now. It doesn’t matter if you work at the Smithsonian or the World’s Smallest Museum in Superior, Arizona (It’s 134 square feet). Museums make a real difference in the lives of the people who visit and the communities they serve. Read more →

October 26, 2015

Anyone who’s ever watched HGTV has learned the power of staging. The home, at first, seems drab and uninteresting. Then, after a professional home stager has finished, the home is transformed into something chic, luxurious eye-catching.

While it may not be practical or appropriate to call in a home stager to revamp your store, a critical eye and a little creativity can go a long way to re-creating your space for maximum appeal. Borrowing a few tips from home stagers you can immediately make a difference on how your store space will attract and retain customers.  Read more →

October 12, 2015

In my younger days, I rode horses. I competed in “eventing,” a triathalon over multiple days with a single equine partner. The total points accumulated from all three elements of a competition determine the horse and rider’s placing.

The first element, dressage, is a graceful ride with a choreographed sequence of movements in an enclosed ring, similar to the compulsories in figure skating. The next two elements are all about jumping fences. Cross country requires horse and rider to be in excellent shape and have a bold attitude in tackling a course over a long outdoor circuit consisting of 15 to 20 solidly built natural obstacles including logs, stone walls, ditches, bank drops and water obstacles – all of which must be successfully completed within an optimum time. Read more →

September 28, 2015

If you are a consumer with credit and debit cards, chances are you’ve opened your mail recently and were greeted with a new credit card that include an embedded computer chip. For consumers, these chipped cards mean added security and maybe a little more peace of mind when using the card at local retailers and ATMs.

But at the other end of the transaction, retailers who take cards may find the addition of the chip adds confusion and potentially increased costs for their business. Read more →

September 14, 2015

There’s a lot of different management styles, but one of the best maybe just one of the most simple. Some say that Abraham Lincoln started this management style during the Civil War. Dave Hewlett and Bill Packard, founders of computer giant Hewlett-Packard, are generally regarded as the masters of this management style. Read more →