Welcome to the busiest time of year for your business! As you know, the holiday shopping season is a bustling time for companies of all kinds. The boost in both foot and online traffic provides your brand with the perfect…
With August now underway, it’s a hugely important time for retailers. The back-to-school shopping season is upon us. This time of year marks the peak season for parents and students to stock up on school supplies, trendy clothes and must-have…
This forthcoming weekend is the Victoria Day long weekend in Canada. Celebrating the birthday of England’s Queen Victoria (May 24, 1819), the annual holiday is affectionately known as “May 2-4” to many Canadians. The long weekend also marks the unofficial…
Halloween is just a few days away! The day after Halloween is exciting too. The holiday shopping season will basically be here! In our last blog, we listed some important ways to prepare your retail store for the holiday shopping…
In just over a week’s time, the summer season will officially be over. September 22 will mark the beginning of fall. For many Canadians, these are sad times. Gone are barbeques and beach days. In their places will be chilly…
These are hard times. Especially, here in the province of Ontario where a lockdown and stay-at-home order is in effect, it’s difficult to run a business successfully. At present, non-essential items cannot be sold in stores. As a result, many…
Here, in Ontario, we are enduring yet another lockdown. For small business owners, that means closing doors to walk-in customers. That doesn’t mean, however, that their businesses must be closed. It means that new and inventive ways to generate sales…
It’s official. Christmas is now less than a month away! With Black Friday taking place tomorrow, retailers all over Canada are about to experience their busiest days of the year. How prepared is your store for the increase in the…
Unless you own and operate an essential business, chances are your doors are closed to the public right now. As the world contends with the coronavirus pandemic, business owners across the globe have been called to play it safe and…
A week from today will be the first of November! Another way of saying that is, in a week, we will welcome the unofficial beginning of the holiday shopping season! It’s true that many Canadians already hit the malls to…