
SPEAKERS

Christyne Gray
Christyne helps high achieving women in the boutique retail industry, to manage their money, stop the financial chaos, and build a profit forever company.
Retail specialized business coach, with a a degree in Accounting, Christyne is a certified tax specialist, and an inventory planning expert...all with 25 years of high level client success experience.
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From Barre to Bottom Line: Profit-Centric Strategies for Dance Boutique Success
Dance boutique retail is more than selling leotards and pointe shoes—it’s
fueling dreams, performance, and passion. Yet many owners struggle with
seasonal cash flow, pre-season buying risk, and the financial overwhelm of
running a highly specialized store. This session introduces a bottom-up
approach to building profit and financial stability unique to the dance
industry. You’ll learn how to optimize your seasonal inventory strategy,
harness customer loyalty for revenue growth, and create a confident cash
flow plan—all while freeing yourself from reactive decision-making and
financial stress.

Jane Casper
Jane unlocks the mystery of automated e-mail and SMS marketing. Founder of Glow Group LLC - automation agency, the leading Klaviyo (E-mail and SMS provider) partner for boutiques using Shopify! As a shop owner herself, Jane has mastered how to design flows to encourage quick product turn over, high profit and brand consistency. She grew her own store from $187K to $5M in just one year, starting it as an Etsy shop in 2013.
Wednesday afternoon - Speaking Topics
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Benefits and Strategies for Email and SMS Marketing
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Josh Orr
Josh Orr, the founder of Capital Commerce and host of the Retail Initiative
Podcast, is one of the leading voices in eCommerce today. With his team, he
helps retailers gain traction in their online sales by creating unbelievable
online experiences that serve customers like a physical storefront,
implementing proven strategies to increase traffic, and frameworks to keep
customers buying again and again
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The eCommerce Playbook - How brick and mortar retailers can turn in-store success into online sales.
In this interactive workshop, you’ll learn the key strategies and tactics to turn your site into a high-converting experience that serves your customers and increases sales by bringing the service and experience of your storefront into your online store. You’ll evaluate your site through a framework that tells you exactly what is costing you sales and leave with a step-by-step plan to implement.
Takeaways -
- How to "bottle up" your in-store experience and translate it into an online experience that converts
- The 3 simply ways brick and mortar retailers create online loyalty without constant discounting or sacrificing what your best customers love about you
- You’ll learn a framework you can take with you to identify why traffic isn’t buying and exactly what needs to change, regardless of where your site stands now
- A step-by-step plan to implement on your site to make easy adjustments that move the needle in increasing sales & turning traffic into paying customers.