The the big kick off sale is over- and I wish to thank you all very much- it was a great sale! So the chaos of preparation for that event is done. And so now we move on to the next phase of the life cycle of a ski season. Not much day to day customer traffic flow, but lot's to do before it snows. Off the top of my head, we probably have about six weeks to:
-Receive the rest of the big orders ( Where are you Lange Boots?).
-Make the store look like a retail operation instead of a Barn full of boxed goods. Including a complete new store merchandising round with all new tags for the 2012/13 season.
-Put together a bunch of back country ski rentals
- Tune about a hundred pairs of skis
- Hire 3-4 new faces
- schedule all our training sessions with the manufacturers reps
- schedule all our training sessions for our in house training
- get everyone checked out on all the binding indemnification tests (~10 employees x four brands = 40 tests, plus Martin, Ian, Seth and myself on a few other brands)
- Re-do the web site
-Thouroughly clean the whole shop
- buy and install some shelving units
- fix the toaster oven...
Well let's just say that my list is over two pages long right now. But there is a sort of dead week right now amidst this sluggish time here where nothing is REALLY pressing, so...
I'm going fishing!
See ya next week!
