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JimmyCast
by SmartWork Media/GK Magazine
Want straight talk about the toughest marketing and management issues facing jewelry retailers? Then we've got the podcast for you — JimmyCast, hosted by marketing guru Jimmy DeGroot of the Jewelry Marketing Institute, with moral support and important insights from the retail front lines supplied by co-host Doug Meadows, owner of David Douglas Diamonds in Marietta, GA.
Episodes
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Podcast: Put Your Heart In Your Business
This month, the Train Retail Podcast (formerly JimmyCast) covers a topic with timeless importance: how to have passion in your business. In this episode, host Jimmy DeGroot and co-host Doug Meadows of David Douglas Diamonds in Marietta, GA discuss how crucial passion is to success and why it’s…
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JimmyCast (Episode19): Trade Shows Mixdown
This month, JimmyCast dives into a timely topic: trade shows. In this episode, host Jimmy DeGroot and co-host Doug Meadows of David Douglas Diamonds in Marietta, GA share a fun and lively conversation about why shows are important, what retailers can get out of them and how to make the most of…
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JimmyCast (Episode 18): Jeffrey Samuels On How To Build A Business To Support A Lifestyle
This month, Jeffrey Samuels, owner of William Jeffrey’s Jewelers near Richmond, Virginia, joins host Jimmy DeGroot and co-host Doug Meadows of David Douglas Diamonds in Marietta, GA to talk about how a jewelry store owner can build a business that supports their lifestyle. Samuels started in the...
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JimmyCast (Episode 17): Wilson Lin on Starting a New Business During a Historic Health Crisis
This month, JimmyCast brings you a story of hope — of a business person who fell so hard for metals and gemstones that he felt he needed to open his own jewelry business, even in the face of a historic health crisis. In the episode, host Jimmy DeGroot and co-host Doug Meadows chat with Wilson…
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(Season 1, Ep. 16): Larry Rickert on Working From Home and His Last Big Project
This month, JimmyCast welcomes Larry Rickert, owner of Jim Kryshak Jewelers in Wausau, WI. The two know each other well, as Jimmy was the general manager at Rickert's business from 1996-2007, before leaving to begin his jewelry consultancy business. Amongst other useful business advice, Larry...
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(Season 1, Ep. 15): Jason Druxman on Moving From Corporate Jewelry to Independent Life
This month, Jimmy DeGroot welcomes a guest he knows quite well. In fact, they know each other so well that they can complete each other’s … “… sandwiches?” suggests Jason Druxman, co-owner of Avenue Jewelers in Appleton, WI. Druxman has been in the jewelry business for over 30 years — “which is...
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(Season 1, Ep. 14): Aleah Arundale on Selling Diamonds and the Power of Jewelers Helping Jewelers
This week, JimmyCast welcomes Aleah Arundale, founder of the popular private Facebook group, Jewelers Helping Jewelers, and a fifth-generation jeweler who works for diamond wholesaler Olympian Diamonds. Chatting with co-hosts Jimmy DeGroot and Doug Meadows, Aleah shares why she created Jewelers...
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(Season 1, Ep. 13): Dave and Spencer Mink On the Importance of Counting Your Traffic
In this month's episode of JimmyCast, host Jimmy DeGroot talks customer data with Dave and Spencer Mink of TraxSales. One of the earliest customer tracking companies, launched in 1996, TraxSales uses an infrared camera system to track door traffic (eliminating visits from your staff and other...
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(Season 1, Ep. 12): Kim Gordon on Making the Leap to Jewelry Store Ownership
Kim Gordon is living the dream — it's the dream of owning her own store, the aptly named Dream Jewelers in Oshkosh, WI. Gordon has spent most of her career in jewelry sales, having spent more than a decade as an assistant manager at a Kay Jewelers and, after that, another decade as sales manager…
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(Season 1, Ep. 11): The Dumbest Things We've Ever Done
If making mistakes is the best way to learn, then the latest episode of JimmyCast promises to be a tremendous learning experience. In the episode, Jimmy DeGroot and co-host Doug Meadows each share five dumb things they've seen jewelers do in their jewelry stores. "This includes us," notes Jimmy....
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(Season 1, Ep. 10): Secrets of Cool From EAT Gallery
In this month’s episode of JimmyCast, hosts Jimmy DeGroot and Doug Meadows chat with the manager of the winning store in the “Small Cool” division of INSTORE’s America’s Coolest Stores”, EAT Gallery of Maysville, KY. Katherine Cotterill, manager at EAT Gallery, has an eclectic past, including…
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(Season 1, Ep. 9): Open the Dang Box
Open the box. That’s the central theme of the latest edition of JimmyCast. By “opening the box”, Jimmy and Doug mean jewelers’ tendency to grasp for things — a training course, a new technology, or a hot line of jewelry — but then not do what they have to do in order to ensure that the new…
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(Season 1, Ep. 8): Doug Meadows Shares the Ups and Downs of His Life as a Jeweler
On this month’s JimmyCast, the focus turns to co-host Doug Meadows, who shares an abridged history of his life in jewelry retail. The interest in Doug’s story is probably not in its uniqueness, but rather its familiarity. In fact, Jimmy says at the end of the podcast that “I bet you 99% of the...
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(Season 1, Ep. 7): Would Your Customers Drive Hundreds of Miles for a Lab-Created Diamond?
Want to know more about selling lab-created diamonds? In the latest episode of JimmyCast, Jimmy DeGroot and co-host Doug Meadows talk with Joy Janssen of Eco Diamond, a family-owned jewelry retailer based in Little Chute, WI. In addition to selling lab-created gems, Eco Diamonds is unusual for a...
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(Season 1, Ep. 6): How and When to Fire Staff
In this month's episode of JimmyCast, Jimmy DeGroot and Doug Meadows talk about one of their least favorite things — firing staff. It’s one of the toughest things a store-owner has to do. But once you determine that someone is dragging your business down, you can’t ignore the issue and need to…
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(Season 1, Ep. 5): How Can Jewelry Stores Keep Their Best Employees?
In a tight job market where the average person seeks to "reinvent" themselves four or five times their career, what does a jewelry store have to do to keep its very best employees for the long-term? That’s the focus of the fifth episode of JimmyCast from jewelry store trainer Jimmy DeGroot of...
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(Season 1, Ep. 4): How to Use Social Media (to Lower Your Intimidation Factor)
Can social media make your store more approachable? That’s the focus of the fourth episode of JimmyCast from jewelry store trainer Jimmy DeGroot of jewelrystoretraining.com. Guest George Fritz of Mills Jewelers in Lockport, NY drops in to talk with Jimmy and co-host Doug Meadows about his fun...
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(Season 1, Ep. 3): Finding Good People for Your Store
Hiring. It's one of the most important things you do. Hiring the right person can lift your store into the stratosphere; hiring the wrong one will drag you into Dante's 7th circle of hell. Finding and hiring people who can become high-quality employees is the key topic discussed in the third...
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(Season 1, Ep. 2): Teaching Employees to Act Like Owners
How can a jewelry-store owner get the members of his or her team to think and act like they are store-owners? That's the big question covered in the second episode of INSTORE's new podcast series, JimmyCast, from jewelry-store trainer Jimmy DeGroot, along with co-host Doug Meadows of David…
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(Season 1, Ep. 1): Paradigm Shift
Welcome to the debut episode of JimmyCast, featuring Jimmy DeGroot. DeGroot is a jewelry store manager who has been in the business for over 20 years. Now he spends his time training teams around the world at jewelrystoretraining.com and sharing marketing advice through his blog site at...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Want straight talk about the toughest marketing and management issues facing jewelry retailers? Then we've got the podcast for you — JimmyCast, hosted by marketing guru Jimmy DeGroot of the Jewelry Marketing Institute, with moral support and important insights from the retail front lines supplied by co-host Doug Meadows, owner of David Douglas Diamonds in Marietta, GA.
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Want straight talk about the toughest marketing and management issues facing jewelry retailers? Then we've got the podcast for you — JimmyCast, hosted by marketing guru Jimmy DeGroot of the Jewelry Marketing Institute, with moral support and important insights from the retail front lines supplied...
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