Spoken testimonial praising the Boutique Hub and the Western Summit for providing networking, education, and industry building for boutique retailers. Speaker credits Ashley Alderson (summit organizer/editorial collaborator) and emphasizes community collaboration, trend-sharing, and the merging of longtime Western influences with newer retail technology.
Foreign. What they've added to WISA and the Western market is just, I mean, uncomfortable. This is a really cool addition and learning and training for all of these boutiques. We've been part of the boutique hub, you know, members for a while, but it's actually, I mean, we couldn't do it without it. I mean, just the networking possibilities, the people that are here, just the trends, the styles. I mean, you just gotta, you know, it's a great thing. What she's created is unbelievable. She's one of the first boutiques that I remember following long ago and she has built herself on heaven. I saw what Ashley was doing with the Runway magazine and she kind of asked me about some advice on editorial with Western lifestyle retailer. So we caught up at Las Vegas at the nfr, first time I'd ever met her and just fell in love with her, her vision. I saw what the summit was doing and Western lifestyle retail Teller and the boutique hub have a lot in common where we're trying to educate the retailer, trying to become, you know, and bridging the gap between manufacturers where how they can reach the retailer if you don't have sales reps on the road. And so our vision was really the same. So I said I saw some of the summits she did in mainstream. The Western industry needs this. The speakers are always great. They do a great job putting it on. And it's just, it's inspiring, like to be around all these other women and men that do the same thing. I just love to see the community all come together. And one thing about the Western influence is everybody, you know, feeds off of each other. What's going on top, trending, you know, what's been in the industry for a long time. I like to see everybody meshing, right. I think that's really important because what the source that have been around for a long time, they have a lot of education, they can bring the new ones and the ones that are coming onto the scene right now are bringing that more new technology wave and it's bringing everything full circle for everybody to succeed.
