Why do some music stores stand out and others disappear? Gayle Beacock of Beacock Music, a NAMM Top 100 Dealer for Best Merchandising, knows the answer. At the 2015 NAMM Show, Beacock sha...
Why do some music stores stand out and others disappear? Gayle Beacock of Beacock Music, a NAMM Top 100 Dealer for Best Merchandising, knows the answer. At the 2015 NAMM Show, Beacock sha...
Can you really make money selling on Amazon.com and eBay—and is it worth your time as a music retailer? According to Leslie Faltin of Instrumental Music Center, the answer is a resounding...
“How do you think about YouTube?”
Shane Kinney, owner of Drum Center of Portsmouth, posed that simple question at the 2015 NAMM Show. During his NAMM U session, he pointed out that there...
2015 Summer NAMM began with the “NAMM Retail Summit,” a NAMM U Breakfast Session that explored the strategies of NAMM Top 100 Dealers—namely 2014’s Top 100 category winners. In a series o...
Sam Ash Music took home a NAMM Top 100 Award for Best Online Presentation. At the “NAMM Retail Summit,” Sammy Ash, COO of the Hicksville, N.Y.-based company, joined NAMM President and CEO...
Carter Vintage Guitars won a NAMM Top 100 Award for Best Exterior—the vintage guitar shop has murals on both sides of its standalone building. But a pretty storefront is just a small part...
Gayle Beacock of Beacock Music in Vancouver, Wash., and Myrna Sislen of Middle C Music in Washington, D.C., operate under a simple but powerful strategy: Break down the barriers that keep...
At the “NAMM Retail Summit,” NAMM President and CEO Joe Lamond called on Jon Haber, a previous NAMM Top 100 winner, for online retailing advice. Haber, owner of Middletown, N.Y.-based Alt...
In 2014, Rand and Cindy Cook of The Candyman Strings and Things in Santa Fe, N.M., won NAMM’s Dealer of the Year award. Twelve months later, they regrouped with NAMM President and CEO Joe...
School bids can be frustrating. At some point, you’ve probably spent hours working up a bid, only to lose to a competitor. Still, there’s money to be made in school bidding, if you go abo...
School bids can be frustrating. At some point, you’ve probably spent hours working up a bid, only to lose to a competitor. Still, there’s money to be made in school bidding, if you go abo...
