Tag: Special To The Retailer
Strength In Numbers: Why Join a Buying Group?
You just opened your e-mail only to see an ad from a big-box or chain store offering the same merchandise to consumers at a lower price than you’re paying for it. How many times have you commented on (or griped, complained and ranted about) how these businesses have all the buying power because they have [...]
Rental Programs: A Compelling Value Proposition
They’re A Continuing Profit Center, Sitting Alongside Regular Sales The desire to make music and share one’s art—whether you’re a member of a rock ‘n’ roll band, you’re a gigging DJ or you fall anywhere on the spectrum in between—is simply irrepressible, which means music product retailers can rest assured that the market’s long-term future [...]
Solutions For Amplifying Modeling Processors On Stage
Traditionally, the guitar amplifier was really an extension of the electric guitar. The amplifier was as much a part of a guitarist’s tone as was the selection of guitar body, fingerboard and pickups. Over the years, guitar amplifier designs have been offered in multiple flavors, each offering the guitarist a different sonic signature with which [...]
Looking to Find Your Place?
Think NAMM Young Professionals! By Mark Despotakis One of the things that give the music industry great character is its diversity of talent. We all come to the industry with a great passion for music. Just as there is a wide range of music styles and products, there is also a wide range of people [...]
Getting Educated Is The Key To Survival!
By Rebecca Apodaca This will be this writer’s 37th Winter NAMM show. As a retailer, a technician and an appraiser who has a store that sells school music and church music to pros and to amateurs, and as a writer for the industry, of course I’m going to the Idea Center sessions to learn as [...]
Reach For The Top With NAMM’s Top Dealer Competition
By Fred W. Gretsch For the third year in a row, NAMM will be holding its Top 100 Dealer Awards competition this year. Since 2011, the award has recognized the efforts of NAMM’s most creative and proactive retail members. In addition to choosing the Top 100, an independent panel of anonymous industry peers also selects [...]
MAKING THE MOST OF YOUR TIME AT NAMM
By David Hall, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Cutting-Edge Solutions Winter NAMM is just around the corner, and attending the show offers plenty of potential to have a positive and dramatic effect on your business. Sure, it’s challenging to leave the store. But for those four days, the entire industry gathers, giving you the [...]
