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Welcoming New Customers When a Competitor Closes
Depending on the size of your community, your nearest competitors may be a few blocks away, or a few miles away. But in either case, when one of them closes their doors, it’s time to welcome their customers wholeheartedly into your store. While it might be tempting to feel a sense of relief as a ...
Breathing Is Not Optional!
Unless you are a professional singer or play the bassoon, you may not think very often about the strength of your lungs. And yet these powerful organs bring oxygen into our body and empty out waste materials every time we breathe. I think we have all been in a situation where our ability to take ...
Eric S. Youngstrom, CEO, Onramp Funds
Eric S. Youngstrom is founder and CEO of Austin-based Onramp Funds, an innovative funding provider that supports the growth of eCommerce businesses. Youngstrom leads a team steeped in eCommerce, providing financing and other resources to empower online merchants to scale their businesses and achieve their dreams. Here he discusses how natural product retailers can make ...
Protein: A Vital Macronutrient for Older Adults!
I recently celebrated my 64th birthday. For more than 43 years I have raced endurance events. I am the farthest thing from a world-class endurance athlete. However, world-class athletes are few and far between. Therefore, I believe the information I’m going to present in this article will not only be useful for retailers but will ...
Herbal Allies for Gut Health
If you’ve been paying attention to the functional medicine field, you already know that gut health is pretty much (directly and or indirectly) tied to everything these days. From digestion and nutrient absorption to immune function, mood support, detoxification and even hormone balance. Simply put, gut health is the foundation of overall wellness. While diet ...
Evaluating Different Forms of Omega-3 Fatty Acids: Fish, Krill & Algae Oils
Omega fatty acids (eicosapentaenoic acid [EPA] and docosahexaenoic acid [DHA]) are universally recognized for their importance to human health. This includes their value for cardiovascular health,1-5 joint health and mitigating inflammation,6-8 reducing UV-induced skin aging9-13 and a range of other issues. Now consider that, although guidelines recommend a combined DHA and EPA intake of between ...
Carolina Lopez, BEJOU Latina Skin Care, Founder/CEO
When Carolina Lopez was 10, she and her sister fled Colombia on the floor of a taxi with their mother in the trunk to escape guerrilla warfare and violence. Her mother stayed behind for five years, risking her life to provide for her daughters who moved to the U.S. in search of a better future. ...
Boosting Foot Traffic: A Guide to Advertising for Independent Health Food Stores
As a small business owner, one of your primary duties is to develop strategies to get more people into your store. In fact, the two most important metrics that every retailer in America should track are store traffic and basket size. If you have enough people coming through the door and they are buying things, ...
The Many Things Ginger Can Do
Ginger is an incredibly valuable and versatile herb. New research is starting to show why. Killing Pain Ginger is useful for killing pain. It is a powerful anti-inflammatory herb that safely improves period pain. A systematic review and meta-analysis of six controlled studies of ginger and painful periods found that, in all six of them, ...
Collaboration is Key for Store Success
We often hear that we live in an incredibly disconnected world. But it is vitally important that we make those connections, first and foremost, in our own communities. Collaborations with other experts and businesses help you cultivate lasting relationships that will ultimately bear fruit for your own store’s well-being—and for the good health of the ...
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