Preparing Your Retail Business For The Holiday Season

The Finance Cafe

In this episode, Shauna sits down with Shashi Behl, the Owner & Founder of Joydrop, Partner & Co-founder of Fernweh, and Founder of Twisted Goods. Shashi shares tips and insights on how to prepare your retail business for the holiday season including how to prepare for the future sales wise, inventory insights, pricing strategies, and even marketing tactics. They also discuss tools, resources and groups that can be beneficial for retail owners.

A passionate entrepreneur and strong advocate for women in business, Shashi has championed women as Chair of AWE, Board Member of Futurpreneur and her current role on The51 Loan Advisory Committee and Board Member on Calgary Public Library Foundation.

She has been on the W100 profit list, P200 list, represented Canada at the G8 Young Business Summit, been awarded Calgary Leader of Tomorrow and last year Joydrop was named Independent Retailer of Year for Canada.

Shashi has founded and partnered with various women-led businesses before opening Joydrop. She is inspired by the passion that goes into every design – pieces which are part of a much bigger, beautiful tapestry.

Shashi loves travelling with her family, meeting new people, road biking, practicing yoga, and reading. Her motto is get comfortable with being uncomfortable and looks to have a YES moment in everyday!

Resources

Fundamentals for an Open To Buy: Listeners can reach out, via LinkedIn to Shashi at https://www.linkedin.com/in/shashi-behl-002b6b2b/ to receive more infomation on category buying and how that will help with their cash flow.

Open To Buy Definition and Formula for Retail Planning 2022 (shopify.com)

Retail Council of Canada Membership | Retail Council of Canada

Episode Blog: https://thefinancecafe.ca/preparing-your-retail-business-for-the-holiday-season/

Connect with Shashi & Joydrop

LinkedIn: Shashi Behl | LinkedIn & Joydrop®: Overview | LinkedIn

Instagram: joydrop.ca and shashiyyc

Facebook: joydrop.ca

Website: www.joydrop.ca

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