The Retailer's Roadmap to Success: 33 Secrets for Driving Your Business to the Next Level

Ready, set, grow your independent retail store with 33 easy-to-implement secrets! Create a new model for your small to midsize shop that allows you to increase your profits, improve your performance, and lighten your workload. Discover how to: - Reverse the paradigm and put your store to work for you. - Create a pricing structure that ignores the competition and shatters the "big box dilemma". - Secure a place in your community and delivery unparalleled customer service. - Recruit, educate, and retain a superior team to run your retail store and let you work ON the business instead of IN the business.

Andy Buyting has been in the retail industry since he was six years old. Today, he applies his entrepreneurial know-how to Green Village Home & Garden, one of Canada's most successful specialty garden stores. Green Village Home & Garden is currently expanding into multiple locations throughout eastern Canada, and is scheduled to start selling franchises in Canada in 2009. Andy is a graduate of the University of New Brunswick's Business Administration program and Birthing Of Giants, a three-year course on entrepreneurship at MIT sponsored by the Entrepreneurs' Organization in conjunction with Inc. Magazine and the MIT Enterprise Forum. Andy is currently enrolled in the prestigious Gathering Of Titans program at MIT, a continuation of Birthing Of Giants limited to only a select group of graduates. He has been a member of the Entrepreneurs' Organization, Toronto Chapter, since 1999. Andy is the recipient of several awards including the Business Development Bank of Canada's Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award for New Brunswick in 2000; Entrepreneur of the Year Award for the Fredericton Chamber of Commerce Business Excellence Awards in 2001; and the prestigious Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award for Atlantic Canada in 2001 (finalist). He lives in New Brunswick, Canada with his wife, Paula, and their daughter, Leah.