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How to Grow Your Retail Business: 13 Proven Ways (2025)

May 16, 2025

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How to Calculate Wholesale Pricing: Profit Margin & Formulas (2025)

May 8, 2025

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What Is Store Credit? How To Use It To Sell More (2025)

May 7, 2025

Retail Store Monthly Expenses: Typical Operating Costs (2025)

Feb 27, 2025

Essential Retail Math Concepts for Successful Businesses (2025)

Feb 27, 2025

Retail Accounting Methods to Value Inventory

Feb 19, 2025

Retail Store Profitability Analysis: Measure and Improve Your Margins

Feb 19, 2025

What Is Cost of Goods Sold (COGS)? Definition & Formula

Feb 9, 2025

Cost Cutting in Retail: 18 Ways to Reduce Operating Expenses

Feb 7, 2025

20 Retail Sales Tips to Improve Sales (2025)

Jan 7, 2025

What is Product Bundling? Definition, Examples & Strategy (2025)

Jan 7, 2025

14 SMART Sales Goals Examples (2025)

Nov 15, 2024

What is Transfer Pricing and Why is it Important?

Jul 24, 2024

Gross Merchandise Value: Calculation and Best Practices

Jul 9, 2024

What Is a Merchant Cash Advance? (+ How To Get One)

Dec 20, 2023

What Is Penetration Pricing? How It Works and Examples (2024)

Dec 1, 2023

What Are Net Sales and How Do I Calculate Them? (2024)

Nov 15, 2023

Inventory Management

What Is Beginning Inventory? Formula + How to Calculate It (2024)

Jun 21, 2023

14 Wholesale Strategy Tips for Retail

Mar 24, 2023

Wholesale Opportunities: How To Scale Your Retail Business Through Bulk Selling

Mar 21, 2023

Returnless Refunds: Amazon Does It—Should You?

Mar 16, 2023

How To Create a Vision Board for Your Business: 8 Step Guide

Mar 12, 2023

Inventory Management

What Is Inventory Valuation? Definition, Importance and Methods (2024)

Feb 14, 2023

Why Do People Shoplift? 5 Reasons and How To Prevent It

Feb 6, 2023

What Is An Invoice? All You Need To Know To Get Paid (2024)

Jan 17, 2023

Cost-Plus Pricing: What Is It + Considerations

Sep 23, 2022

Data & Analytics

Revenue Per Employee: How to Calculate and Improve Your RPE Ratio

Sep 8, 2022

Data & Analytics

Sales Per Square Foot: Retail Calculations & Metrics (2024)

Sep 7, 2022

How To Identify and Prevent Vendor Fraud

Aug 4, 2022

Return Fraud Tips for Protecting Your Retail Business

Aug 1, 2022

Sales Objections in Retail: How to Overcome Pre-Purchase Concerns

Jun 6, 2022

Calculating Gross Sales: A Step-by-Step Guide With Formula

Apr 27, 2022

Inventory Management

The Retailer’s Guide to the Weighted Average Cost Method

Apr 13, 2022

Inventory Management

GMROI for Retail: Formula & How to Calculate (2024)

Apr 11, 2022

Payments & Checkout

What is a Card-Not-Present (CNP) Transaction? (+ Examples)

Apr 7, 2022

Inventory Management

Retail Markdowns 101 for Shop Owners

Feb 9, 2022

Retail Returns: How to Manage Returns and Exchanges (2024)

Nov 23, 2021

What is a Chargeback? Everything You Need to Know

Oct 4, 2021

8 Effective Suggestive Selling Techniques for Retailers (+ 7 Bonus Tips)

Sep 9, 2021

How to Forecast Demand for Your Retail Store (and Why You Should)

Aug 18, 2021

Break-Even Point: How To Calculate BEP (Quickstart Guide)

Jul 27, 2021

How to Calculate Retail Conversion Rate: +7 Tips

Jul 15, 2021

12 Discount Strategies in Retail To Try in Your Store (+ How To Stay Profitable)

Mar 24, 2021

What is Cash Flow and Tips for Fixing During a Shortage

Feb 1, 2020

Recurring Refunds: How Retailers Can Deal with ‘Serial Returners’

Jan 22, 2019

Open a Retail Store

7 Ways to Generate Revenue Before You Open Your Retail Store

Nov 7, 2018

5 Ways Retailers Can Generate Revenue Outside of Business Hours

May 9, 2018

Create a Loss Prevention Plan for Your Retail Store

Apr 19, 2018

Open a Retail Store

Government Funding: Finance Your Retail Business

Apr 5, 2017

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