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Marketing to Maximize Repeat and Referral Business
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In this two-part session, you'll learn techniques for building a profitable opt-in customer list and selling your products and services through emails, social...
How to Ensure Your Store's In Good Hands When You're Not There
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What happens when the toilet overflows, the roof leaks, your POS crashes or your store alarm goes off in the middle of the night when you’re out of town on...
Lucien Hut
- Oral History
Lucien Hut dedicated his entire career to teaching, selling, restoring and designing the piano!
12 Cheap Ways to Better Your Business NOW
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Jumpstart your marketing, increase your profits and create a better in-store experience with free and low-cost ideas.
Donald Hustad
- Oral History
Donald Hustad was an editor and arranger for the Hope Music Publishing Company for over fifty years before his retirement.
Beware of How You 'Treat' Your Music Teachers
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No, we’re not talking about whether you’re nice to them…we’re talking about whether they are viewed as “employees” or “independent contractors” in the eyes of...
Mary Lou Hoogenboom
- Oral History
Mary Lou Hoogenboom was a factory worker for the Gibson Guitar Company when it was located in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Top 10 Smart Things to Do in 2013
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When things go financially wrong, it's human nature to want to hang out in that warm happy place called denial. But, eventually we all have to come to grips...
Hubert Friar
- Oral History
Hubert Friar was hired by the Gibson Guitar Company in Kalamazoo in 1959. Hubert worked for the company over 25 years.
Give Credit Where Credit Is Due
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Alan Friedman, CPA Partner, Friedman, Kannenberg & Company, P.C., and panel
How To Create Your Own YouTube Channel
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With 800 million users worldwide and the second largest search engine to Google, if your business isn't on YouTube yet, perhaps it should be. In this session...
Creating Promotions That Really Reach Customers
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Customers appreciate when you think of them and their specific needs.
How to Become a Customer Whisperer: A New Way to Succeed with Customers
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The salesman's tricks of olde don't work on today's tech savvy consumers.
Best Facebook Marketing Examples You Can Use
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Join Michael Newman as he presents top Facebook marketing examples for small businesses, including the best Facebook pages, strategies and tools to be...
How To Sell Products, Not Boxes
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What’s the simple difference between selling products and selling boxes? Customer service.
Social Media Simplified: Stories Build Brands
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Want to know the secret to social media? The secret is, there is no secret. There is no special sauce. There is no prescription. There are no rules or...
How Spending $250 Can Triple Your Sales and Turn Old Inventory
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Raegan Michelle Medeiros, John Michael's Music
Clif Bar Wins Best Corporate Band in America at the FORTUNE Battle of the Corporate Bands
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Rock and roll bands comprised of employees from eight national companies owned the night at the 12th annual FORTUNE Battle of the Corporate Bands on October 6...
Moving Inventory: Choose the Winners, Lose the Others
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Are you feeling weighed down by excess inventory—but indecisive when it comes to how to move it?
What to Do When You Have Too Much To Do
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Do you find yourself saying things like "I have too many things to do to worry about being productive!" In this session, Donovan Bankhead explains how he uses...
Jump Start Your Lesson Program
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Pete Gamber, Music Arts, Music Inc. Columnist, and former owner Alta Loma Music
Extremely Devoted Former NAMM Employee, Lillian Siegh, Passes Away at 84
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NAMM’s longest living employee, Lillian Siegh, died peacefully on Nov. 23, 2011 at the age of 84.
Pick Holiday Gifts That Strike the Right Chord
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Guided by industry trends, retailer feedback and consumer sentiment, The National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) and Making Music
NAMM Musikmesse Russia and Prolight + Sound NAMM Russia Unveil Pavilion Classique to Promote Classical Instruments
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NAMM Musikmesse Russia and Prolight + Sound NAMM Russia are going to start its 2nd edition back in Moscow on May 16, 2013 through May 19 and 18 respectively.
Creating Promotions That Really Reach Customers
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Customers appreciate when you think of them and their specific needs.
Making Every Word Count—Employee Communication That Gets Results
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You've tried everything to keep your staff informed. Team meetings, one-on-one's, emails, texts, notes on the communal fridge. Why don't they get the message?
How To Plan for Profit—One Department at a Time
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Do you know which product categories in your store are making you money—and which ones aren’t?
Covering Your Social Media Bases
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Are you wondering about Social Media options—Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn— and how to best use them for your business? Your success with these...
10 Ways to Cut Costs and Raise Profits
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While the cost of doing business varies from store to store, the ultimate goals are the same: lower costs, higher profits.
How to Turn your Business Around: Simple Ideas That Work
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In this session, Greg and Grant Billings share their own experiences of adapting to the ups and downs of business. They’ll take you behind the scenes to see...