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Retailers, Do You Know Your Security Duress Code?

How would you discreetly summon the police if you were approached at gunpoint by a criminal when opening your store? These tips will tell you how.
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How the The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Will Affect Your Business

With the sweeping changes in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, potential savings won’t be seen by tactical retailers until the tax bill for 2018 comes due.
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THE MILLENIAL CHALLENGE: How to Identify This Important Market Segment

Millennials are not so much entitled, as we often hear, but rather they simply expect that brands value the customer’s time. Make sure you do.
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MARKETING STRATEGIES FROM ONE OF THE INDUSTRY'S TOP THOUGHT LEADERS

Many manufacturers and firearms dealers admit they are terrible at marketing, with one of the main points of failure usually being the complexity.
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Shooting Trends, the Trump Slump and Hanging with Retailers

Shooting trends and insights are best gleaned while talking with the folks who have boots on the ground: retailers and shooting sports store dealers.
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How to Set Up Your Store's Master Key Locking System

Controlling the master key locking system to your location is not a onetime event that occurs when you open for business, but rather an ongoing task.
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Retail Scam Evolution: Phishing 2.0, Smishing and More

It all started with an email from a “Nigerian Prince.” The email was riddled with misspelled words, unintelligible sentences and … wait, what’s this? If I just cash a check I'll be rewarded how much? Sign me up!
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Proven Tips to Create Business Plans for More Profits

The overall process of creating a thorough business plan can help nearly any store take stock of what is working—and determine what is not.
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Get your finger on the pulse of the shooting sports industry

Retailers can learn to make customers' hearts skip a beat in 2018. Improve sales — and profits — by understanding what worked in 2017.
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Hiring firearms range instructors: in-house or contract?

Find out the differences between in-house and contract range instructors and which one you should hire to maximixe profitability and ensure returning customers.
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Firearms Retailers Need To Cultivate 'Family'

As a group, it is safe to suggest that retailers are doing things to expand the impact of the sport among youth and that, like anything else, there is always room for improvement.
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Worden new Director of Sales for Crosman LaserMax

Anthony Acitelli has been appointed Chairman of the Board by the Board of Directors of Remington Outdoor Company, one of the...
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Smith & Wesson Offers New Features With Latest M&P Shield

Anthony Acitelli has been appointed Chairman of the Board by the Board of Directors of Remington Outdoor Company, one of the...