The Boutique Hub App Launch

Let's talk about your business strategy and the juicy details of what actually works from mainstream fashion to fashion on Main street and the entire ecosystem behind it. How do we scale your company and do it with the balance and the happiness that we all seek? Let's hear from those insiders, experts and strategists that actually make it happen. I'm your host Ashley Alderson from the Boutique Hub and I can't wait to chat. You guys. It is me with just a quick solo episode and update this week with the podcast because I'm so excited to share this with you. You guys know for the longest time at the Boutique Hub, our company, our community, everything that we offer in terms of education really was founded inside of Facebook groups. It was the go to place to create one on one connection and build a community around growing your business. And this week right now, we are in the midst of launching something brand new that I'm so excited to share with you and that is our very own Boutique Hub app. So today I'm coming to you simply to invite you, if you are a member of the Boutique Hub and of our community to please go ahead to the App Store or to the Google Play Store and download your Boutique Hub app. Right now we are rethinking how we are all communicating in the retail industry and how can we get you education and tools and tips and training and wholesale and all the things you need to grow your business every day right from your phone. So today I just want to take a couple of quick minutes in this solo episode to walk through what you're going to find once you download the app for all of our members here at the Boutique Hub. The first thing is you are going to have a very, your very own, a brand new profile for yourself. Not only to show a little bit about your boutique and behind the scenes and to post updates, but also to connect with other members at the Boutique Hub. So when you join the new app, you're going to update your profile. It's going to sync with your membership profile from the Boutique Hub, your store name, all that information and you're going to have a friends list that you're going to be able to connect with immediately. Inside of the app, you're going to find all of your boutique besties. You're going to request to connect to them, request to follow them so that you can have new communications, new conversations inside of the app on a daily basis. From there, once you have your membership profile updated, you'll be able to join our brand new group inside of the app. So rather than going to Facebook wondering if the algorithm is going to show you content, if you're going to find your post, or if you're going to find the answer to your question, you can come right into our brand new group inside of the app where you can connect immediately, ask a question, find an answer, and connect with fellow members of the Boutique Hub. Even better than that though, that I'm so excited about, so excited to tell you about is our new forum feature inside of the app. So rather than wondering if this question that you asked about Shopify or about holiday marketing has already been asked, you can go right to our forum section where we have all kinds of topics already pre selected for you and then conversations related to those topics preceded as questions inside of the app. So for example, when it comes to being a Canadian boutique, let's say we have a forum topic dedicated just for you. So you can connect with fellow Canadian boutique owners, Canadian retailers, and you can ask questions particularly to your type of business in your industry. Same if you are a salon owner and you want to connect with fellow salon owners. Those are all inside of forums along with topics. If you have a question about Shopify, about apps you're using on Shopify, or about comments sold, you can go in and find those theme topics inside of our forums and find either a question that's already been asked and answered, or join into an existing conversation inside of that forum. Our goal at the end of the day is simply to help you get the questions to the answers that you. Wait, did I say that backwards? To get you the answers to the questions that you have on a daily basis even faster so you don't have to scroll through the group and wonder if somebody is having the same problem as you. You hopefully can find that right away inside of the forums. Now here is one of the coolest parts of the app that I really hope that you love. The group is there for you, the forum is there for you, your profile is there for you. But we want to put training and bites size easy action items inside of your pocket every day. So each day inside of the app you'll get a notification with alert. An alert for our brand new training series called 60 Seconds Smarter. Each day you'll get a video from either myself, a member of the Boutique Hub team, or an industry expert that for 60 seconds is going to share a very quick bite sized tip with you. And this is on every aspect of life and business, whether it's balance, healthy lifestyles, maximizing Facebook ads, building a brand merchandising understanding, pricing and inventory, strategy, maximizing your taxes, you name it. We have all the topics covered. So each day look for that notification inside of the app called 60 Seconds Smarter. And if you miss one, we have them all categorized inside of the 60 Second Smarter training module, so you can come back and watch all of them at any time. Now, speaking of training modules inside of the app, our training library, which the Hub is well known for, it is packed with hundreds and hundreds of videos and downloads and checklists and ideas and to dos and past Facebook lives so that you can find training on every single aspect of your business. And it's all right there, all categorized inside of your app so you can find this information on the dashboard if you're a member of the Hub or inside of the app if you are a member of the Hub. Now, last but not least, we have also got all of the additional benefits to being a Boutique Hub member listed inside of your app. So if you need access to your service provider directory, it's inside of the app. If you're looking for what discounts and really exclusive perks that Boutique Hub members have. Things like discounts at Office Depot or with Hertz Rental car with comments, sold with QuickBooks, with Shopify, you name it. Including our very own exclusive, exclusive insurance plans that were built for boutique owner supplemental insurance plans. You can find access to all of that under the other tab which lists all of your membership perks inside of the app. We're simply trying to make your life so much easier, save you time and get you access to things that will help build your business, save you money and save you time every single day. So I invite you to please download the app inside of the Google Play Store, inside of the App Store, or if you have a question, simply hit me up on Instagram @ajalderson or the Boutique Peak Hub and we can answer all of your app questions. Our team has been working on this project for, gosh, probably two years now. A year and a half. Two years. It's been a long time. Feels like it's been a long time coming. We had a lot of tech to rebuild on the back end of our website to make this happen and we aren't done yet. We have more ideas and new features that we can't wait to offer inside of membership at the Hub and also inside of your app as it relates to all the benefits to your business. But also hubventory, because hubventory is coming and we want to get you a quicker and better way to shop wholesale for your business every single day. So quick update from me. Just wanted to alert you. Please go ahead download the Boutique Hubs app, introduce yourself inside of the new group, connect and follow some new friends in the app. Head to the forum feature and please check out some trainings in the library or in 60 seconds. Smarter as you go. I hope you love it. You guys, from my heart to yours. Our entire team is dedicated to making your lives better every single day and we are so blessed to get to do what we do. So thank you for being a member of the Hub. Thank you for listening to this podcast and being in this community. We cannot wait to serve you. Thanks so much for being here guys. 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