SWOT Analysis

Knowing your strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and the threats facing your business allows you to focus.

Investing In Retail: Running the Numbers

Which opportunities should you invest in to get the best return? How do you know if costs will be covered?

State of The Industry

David and Wayne McMahon talk about furniture retailer profitability and ways they can do better.

Improve Performance With Professional Financial Planning

It’s a fact that the FP&A process increases the odds of retail success, producing better profits and cash flow than if you ignored FP&A. Here’s how it works.

What To Do When The Competition Enters Your Market

Retailers across the country are asking what they should do to prepare for well known chain stores and others that are entering their marketplaces. Here’s the answer to those questions.

Seven Performance Indicators You Should Track

Here are seven indicators you can use to know your business better, plus how you can use this information to surpass your unfocused competitors.

Should We Meet?

Seven important meeting types that set the stage for retail success.

Eight Secrets of Successful Retailers

In this issue, David McMahon speaks about eight practices that separate successful home furnishings retailers from their struggling competitors.

Business Intelligence & Mobile Dashboards

No matter which software system you are running, you have thousands of report queries available. How you sift through this data and make sense of it all is the purpose of business intelligence or “BI”.

Think Profit! – Part 3: Cash Flow

An in-depth look at how to analyze one of your three critical financial statements: your statement of cash flow.