Get to Know: Rob Kujath Rob KujathNationwide CoreStates covered: Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Washington📧: rob.kujath@nationwidegroup.org☎️: 505-379-3300Work Experience Prior to joining the Nationwide team, I...
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Get to Know: Jason Chenault Jason ChenaultNationwide EastStates covered: Arkansas, Tennessee (north)📧: jason.chenault@nationwidegroup.org☎️: 501-722-8782Work Experience Orr’s Furniture Sales-Electronics Manager, August 1990-March 2004White Furniture Company General...
Grow Your Consumer Electronics Margin Through F.O.C.U.S.
The path to these higher margins in consumer electronics begins with a sales strategy – not unlike other categories you may sell. Learn how F.O.C.U.S. could be the key to your success.
Rent-to-Own Recruiting Challenges In Today’s Competitive Environment
Recruitment may mean different things to different people, but recruitment is the overall process of attracting, identifying and selecting suitable candidates for jobs within your organization.
How to Attract and Retain Your Most Important Assets — Your Employees
In order to provide customers the trust they deserve when engaging with your store, you must attract and retain employees that can perform at a high level. Unfortunately, this is one of retails greatest challenges today.
The Role of Point of Sale in the Evolution of Retail
Used properly, a point of sale system can turn a struggling retailer’s business around in no time and help a more successful retailer thrive.
A Major Milestone: NMG and Members Hit 1 Million Meals Packed for No Child Hungry
In November 2019, as the Nationwide Week of Giving was in full swing, that movement saw the 1,000,000th meal of the partnership between NMG and No Child Hungry packed and sealed.
Navigating the Mystifying Marketing Maze
Determining what is the best marketing mix for your store is a multilayered process that involves matching messaging, media options and ad placement with consumer demographics, dealer offerings and budget.
New Insurance Options Help You Protect Your People and Your Business
A deep dive into some of the newest insurance services we’ve made available to Nationwide Members.
Your Company’s Customer Experience: It’s a People Thing
In today’s retail landscape, there are few things that wield as much influence over a retailer’s success as the customer experience.
Higher Resolution – Higher Profits: The Importance of Embracing New Technology
The year 2020 is without question going to be a year of experience-driven opportunity in the Consumer Electronics world.
Accessories: A Key to Unlocking Higher Profit Margins
Between the looming threat of tariffs and whispers of a possible economic slowdown, retailers certainly have a lot to worry about and plenty of pressure on their bottom lines. It’s easy, then, to lose focus of the hidden opportunities that can help improve sales. As...
12 Tips to Add Value in an Ever-Changing Retail World
Have you ever asked yourself, “What is the value that I provide to my customers?” Keep in mind, value isn’t all about price. Rather, value may come in the form of the overall shopping experience at your store, interactions with sales team associates or the types of...
It’s Time for RTO to Look and Act More Like Retail
With traditional retailers jumping into the lease-to-own (LTO) or lease purchase transaction and trying to capture that elusive customer who cannot qualify for or does not want additional credit, it is more important than ever for traditional brick and mortar...
Attracting New Customers in the Digital Age
The internet is filled with high-quality, content-rich websites that are designed to attract new customers and keep them there. How? With elements such as consumer reviews, easily navigable menus, extensive catalogs full of pictures and information and interactive...
Nationwide Learning Academy: Learning, Sharing, Succeeding Together
None of us is as smart as all of us. Ken Blanchard wrote those words in his book The One Minute Manager, and the principal behind them has been in play for centuries. Never has one individual conquered challenge with greater ease than could a group of like-minded...
Nationwide Executive Leadership Summit: Three Days Dedicated to Transformation
Your Nationwide organization has very publicly stated the group’s five core commitments to you, our members. Everything our teams do is hyper-focused on delivering on these five promises. Some of these commitments are easily defined and have been created to be easy...
The New Path to Purchase
In the “old days” (10 years ago), customers found and bought the items we sell differently than they do today. It used to be that customers would visit multiple stores, where they would be educated on the products that they needed. After comparing features and...
A Deeper Dive into Furniture Imports
Nationwide Marketing Group Furniture Director Johnny Lamp recently provided a great overview of the tariff issue and explains the varying approaches vendors and retailers are taking in their response. However, I want to take a moment to share some data that puts the...
Navigating the Uncertain Landscape of Tariff Issues
Over the years, furniture retailers have become well versed on how to handle the unpredictable and rocky terrain that is the retail landscape. Recessions, declining consumer sentiment, natural disasters and increasing consumer debt have become familiar obstacles. But...