Retail Recipes for Success

The basic, common-sense suggestions in this session will help your retailers cook in any economy. This session will teach beginning managers how to help their retailers take advantage of available ingredients and whip up success  even when things slow down. Use these simple suggestions of inexpensive ways Main Street can help downtown businesses, as well as ways those businesses can help themselves.

Learning Objectives:

  • Utilize ideas for Main Street programs to employ in support of their downtown retailers
  • Pass on ideas to downtown retailers to use in creating success for themselves in a sluggish economy
  • Better understand the basics of successful retail promotion

Presenters:

Jan Miller, Mississippi Main Street Association, Columbus, Miss.;

Stacy Pair, Mississippi Main Street Association, Gulfport, Miss.;

Greg Phillips, Main Street Arkansas, Little Rock, Ark.

Track:

Assisting Small Businesses

Date/Time:

Wednesday, May 5, 10:15-11:30 a.m.