Creative Shop Talk with Wendy Batten

Updated: 15 Jan 2024 • 117 episodes
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How do I attract more customers to my store? How do I get more sales? How do I book out my shop’s events and workshops? How do I do retail marketing and social media for my store? These are the questions that creative retail business owners ask Wendy Batten, creative retail coach and mentor. Wendy works with creative shop owners all over the world and with industry leaders. Her speciality is working with creative retailers to get control over their brick and mortars to avoid burnout and overwhelm while achieving more success and profits. In Creative Shop Talk, Wendy digs into the problems and solutions that “accidental shopkeepers” and hobbyists turned retail business owners face. Wendy dives deep in mindset and best practices for retailers with masterclass trainings, business strategies, expert guests and industry insiders, and more. Each episode is designed to help busy and passionate creative shop owners take action, work through their overwhelm and get focused on strategic business areas. Thinking about opening your own creative retail shop? Ready to stop playing shopkeeper and “winging” the business stuff? Looking for more foot traffic? Want to turn your brick and mortar into a viable business? Want predictable profits? Want to take the next step to run your store and not let it run you? Turn to Wendy Batten to take the proven steps to achieving your dream store, living your creative life and helping your amazing customers.

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  With host retail coach Wendy Batten   https://wendybatten.com/podcast-intro/   In This Episode:  As an unwavering advocate for independent retail shops, I often get asked “What are retailers doing that drives you crazy?” In this episode, I am going to share a few.  These are the five things that drive me crazy in ret

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 With host retail coach Wendy Batten   https://wendybatten.com/podcast-intro/   Don’t set yourself up for failure!   In This Episode:    “Baby steps!” It’s what everyone tells us when we are trying to achieve a big goal. Maybe aren’t getting there as fast as we’d like, or maybe when we are trying to make progress more

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 With host retail coach Wendy Batten   https://wendybatten.com/190/   Welcome to Season 5 of the Creative Shop Talk Podcast!   Topics Covered in This Episode:  As we roll into 2024, the way we market our businesses, our customers’ expectations, and so many other things are going to change.  Not in a HUGE way, but in Ep

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With host retail coach Wendy Batten   https://wendybatten.com/189/   The Creative Shop Talk Podcast reached 176,000 downloads! As we wrap up Season 4 of the podcast, I wanted to thank every single person who has listened, downloaded, left a review, shared the podcast, all of it.  I started this podcast in March of 2020

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 With host retail coach Wendy Batten   https://wendybatten.com/podcast-intro/   Show Notes:  Don’t miss joining the Best Retail Year Ever Workshop - our Annual Planning Workshop. Get your goals all on one page and see a better 2024, and jump in before the end of the year and save $200!  EARLY BIRD PRICING in effect unt

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 With host retail coach Wendy Batten   https://wendybatten.com/187/   Show Notes:  Don’t miss joining the Best Retail Year Ever Workshop - our Annual Planning Workshop. Get your goals all on one page and see a better 2024, and jump in before the end of the year and save $200!  A new year is almost upon us, my friends,

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