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Employee Reviews Done Right

How to have successful one-on-one conversations with your employees. A pat on the back. A harsh word. A smile. A frown. A compliment. A critique. We…

Inside the Luxury Advent Calendar Boom with DTC Brand Cheese Brothers

This article was originally published on Retail TouchPoints, as part of the ongoing “Small Business, Big Ideas” series, which focuses on smaller retail brands that have found…

Business Exit and Succession Planning (Pt. 3): 5 Steps to Success

Welcome to the third installment in our exploration of succession and exit planning for business owners. In our earlier articles, we covered where to start, your…

How One Up-and-Coming Wellness Brand is Using Community to Combat Stigma

Many brands, especially in CPG, are born from known challenges and pain points; they are innately designed to serve an established market need. For Brianna Bitton,…

Business Exit and Succession Planning (Pt. 2): The Transition

In this installment, we’ll build on what was discussed in part 1, “Business Exit and Succession Planning: Where To Start.” In this piece, we’ll dive deeper into…

Why A Jar of Pickles is Embracing the ‘Raw, Unfiltered’ Side of Instagram

Kirstie Wang started her stationary, accessory and gift brand, A Jar of Pickles, when she was in her last year of college. At that point, it…

3 Companies Leveraging Amazon to be a ‘Force for Good’

Amazon took a breather from the veritable onslaught of tech updates at its Accelerate conference last Thursday to shine the spotlight on three specific companies. Like the thousands of attendees in…

Business Exit and Succession Planning (Pt. 1): Where To Start

Exit and succession planning involves creating a strategy that defines the future of your business when you're no longer running it.