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Want to Increase Sales? Boost Staff Training and Expertise
Expanding the reach of your store can be incredibly exciting. When you’ve hit a point where your store’s popularity has grown and you’re ready to branch out, it is an amazing thing. But it also requires some careful thought and planning. Adding more sales channels to your business operation is a big risk, but it ...
Perseverance Wins for Mother/Daughter Retailers
Nature’s Cupboard (Michigan City and Chesterton, IN) The year 2020 marks Nature’s Cupboard’s 40th anniversary. Being in business for that amount of time in any industry is an achievement, especially considering the Indiana-based retailer’s humble beginnings. “We started out primarily as a supplement store with some grocery,” said Mylese Tucker, second generation owner. “As competition ...
Franny Tacy, Franny’s Farmacy
Franny Tacy, owner of Franny’s Farmacy, is the first female hemp farmer in North Carolina. She has degrees and work experience in forestry and education and worked in the pharmaceutical industry for more than a decade. Tacy is one of the preeminent experts of all things hemp, participates in the Hemp Research Trials with North ...
Chromium/Herbal Complex for Glucose & Cardiovascular Health
Cardiometabolic syndrome (CMS) is the quintessential disorder of the late 20th century and the 21st century. It is comprised of metabolic dysfunctions primarily characterized by insulin resistance, impaired glucose tolerance, dyslipidemia (e.g. high cholesterol and triglycerides), hypertension, inflammation and central adiposity (a major contributor to increased cardiometabolic risk.)1,2 In fact, the World Health Organization and ...
Combat Free Radicals!
5 Supplements for Cellular Renewal and Recovery The use of supplements in recent years for recovery has become more common than ever before. The body is inundated with daily stresses that include environmental toxins, electromagnetic pollution, and even excess exercise, among others, which increases the body’s antioxidant and nutrient requirements that promote recovery. Consuming an ...
Heather Lux
With a bachelor’s degree in organizational communication, Heather Lux, founder of True North Beauty, spent 20 years working for progressive Fortune 100 consumer good manufacturing and sales companies. But after years of working “crazy hours,” Lux said she had completely lost all direction. “I made an effort to reconnect with myself and define my life ...
Take Care of Your Brain
Sometimes we forget that our brain is a physical organ. Because it is our seat of consciousness, we often fall victim to the mistaken belief that our thinking and awareness completely control our brain’s activity. We believe that if try really hard, we can dictate our mood and memory. Snap out of it. Calm down. ...
Indian Gooseberry: An Effective Cardiometabolic Nutraceutical
Distributed throughout tropical and subtropical India, wild or planted, Indian gooseberry (Phyllanthus emblica L. syn. Emblica officinalis), is a deciduous tree, commonly known as amla in India. It yields a fleshy fruit more than 1.5 cm in diameter, light greenish-yellow, and quite smooth.1 It has played an important medicinal role for centuries in ayurveda, with ...
Adding Sales Channels and Expanding Your Store’s Reach
Expanding the reach of your store can be incredibly exciting. When you’ve hit a point where your store’s popularity has grown and you’re ready to branch out, it is an amazing thing. But it also requires some careful thought and planning. Adding more sales channels to your business operation is a big risk, but it ...
Impact of Coronavirus on the Natural Products Industry
The new strain of coronavirus grabbing headlines and generating health concerns around the world was given an official name by the World Health Organization (WHO) on Feb. 11, 2020: COVID-19. Back in December 2019, the virus was first reported in Wuhan, China, and was traced to a novel strain. The COVID-19 virus, in some instances, ...
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