Well, if we’ve learned anything over our ten years of owning and operating a brick and mortar store, it’s that it requires YOUR time and dedication. In our efforts to keep thriving as a land based gift retailer, we lost ground in our inability to juggle all of life’s demands including other full time […]
Indie Retailer is proud to announce our latest project, Dollar Card Marketing. Dollar Card Marketing produces $5, $10, $20, and $100 dollar bill drop cards for lead generation, busines marketing, and website promotion.
If you’re not familiar with what a drop card or sizzle card, here it is in a nutshell. Drop […]
Last week John and I received a call from the owner of our biggest selling line. This was the type of call that all retailers hate to hear. “Hey, we’re moving our operation cross country and by the way, product will not be available until January 2007. And we have to cancel your […]
If you don’t know what a favicon is; it’s the little teeny tiny icon (favorite icon) that webmasters are able to integrate into their site code so that when you surf to the site, it provides the website owner with a bit of branding for their site and business. If you’re viewing this site […]
We started this site as a simple blog in hopes of creating a meeting place, or at least a stop by, for independent retailers and those that support them. Then we decided that we should offer a bit more; resources, links to other small business sites that we’ve found helpful, etc.. We then took to searching […]
These posts will be dedicated to discussions regarding small independant business who have retail store fronts as well as having an Internet presence. An Indie Retailer with a web site can be one with a simple web page providing essential information such as location, business hours, and a brief business description or an indpendant retailer can […]