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Getting Ready for the Holiday Shopping Season

Getting Ready for the Holiday Shopping Season

← PREVIOUS ARTICLE NEXT ARTICLE → Getting Ready for the Holiday Shopping Season The holidays are almost here. ‘Tis the season that can make or break the year for many retailers. While many experts are predicting mild shopping growth this year –...
Ransomware Resolution: How One Business Recovered

Ransomware Resolution: How One Business Recovered

← PREVIOUS ARTICLE NEXT ARTICLE → Ransomware Resolution: How One Business Recovered October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month when government agencies and private industry works together to raise awareness about the importance of digital security. While news...
Tips and Tools to Improve Your Cybersecurity

Tips and Tools to Improve Your Cybersecurity

← PREVIOUS ARTICLE NEXT ARTICLE → Tips and Tools to Improve Your Cybersecurity While cybercrime comes in many forms, ransomware has become the No. 1 type of cybercrime affecting small businesses. The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (ic3) cataloged over...
Paladin People – Jesse McCloskey

Paladin People – Jesse McCloskey

← PREVIOUS ARTICLE NEXT ARTICLE → Paladin People – Jesse McCloskey Working hard to keep stores running better Jesse McCloskey hasn’t been at Paladin very long but he’s already having a lasting impact on the company and the stores he works with. Jesse...
Hometown Hardware Wins Beacon Award

Hometown Hardware Wins Beacon Award

← PREVIOUS ARTICLE NEXT ARTICLE → Hometown Hardware Wins Beacon Award Hometown Hardware, in Senoia, Georgia, was one of four stores honored as Beacon Award winners at The Hardware Conference in Marco Island, Florida. Owned and operated by Phil and Deanna...
Better Cybersafe Than Sorry

Better Cybersafe Than Sorry

← PREVIOUS ARTICLE NEXT ARTICLE → Better Cybersafe Than Sorry October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month when organizations like the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the National Cybersecurity Alliance (NCA) lead the effort to get...

In Case You Missed It …

← PREVIOUS ARTICLE NEXT ARTICLE → In Case You Missed It … Our quarterly recap reviews our news and highlights from the past three months in case you missed something. Business of Excellence – Phil’s Ace Hardware Phil’s Ace Hardware has been the go-to...
Business of Excellence – Phil’s Ace Hardware

Business of Excellence – Phil’s Ace Hardware

← PREVIOUS ARTICLE NEXT ARTICLE → Business of Excellence – Phil’s Ace Hardware Business: Phil’s Ace Hardware  Location: Prineville, Oregon Owner: Phil Dale  Phil’s Ace Hardware stores in Prineville and Madras have been the go-to helpful...
Hometown Hardware Wins Beacon Award

Liz Haun-Pharas of Nyssa Mercantile Among Industry’s Top Women

← PREVIOUS ARTICLE NEXT ARTICLE → Liz Haun-Pharas of Nyssa Mercantile Among Industry’s Top Women Liz Haun-Pharas, owner of Nyssa Mercantile, is among HBS Dealer’s 2022 Top Women of Hardware and Building Supply announced in August. The magazine will formally...
Huntsville loses a hardware icon – Donnie Lewter

Huntsville loses a hardware icon – Donnie Lewter

← PREVIOUS ARTICLE NEXT ARTICLE → Huntsville loses a hardware icon – Donnie Lewter Donnie Lewter, co-owner of Lewter Hardware, passed away in late July. Donnie and his brother, Mac, are the most recent Lewters to operate the store that their family founded...
Better Cybersafe Than Sorry

Enhanced Management for POs, Quotes, Invoices and Payments

← PREVIOUS ARTICLE NEXT ARTICLE → Enhanced Management for POs, Quotes, Invoices and Payments Independent hardware stores often create several separate purchase orders when ordering products from their suppliers. Our latest release allows stores to merge...
PC Replacement Plans are Good Business

PC Replacement Plans are Good Business

← PREVIOUS ARTICLE NEXT ARTICLE → PC Replacement Plans are Good Business “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” It’s a popular American colloquialism on frugality attributed to T. Bertram Lance, the director of the Office of Management and Budget under President...
Paladin Best Practices: Optimizing EDI

Paladin Best Practices: Optimizing EDI

← PREVIOUS ARTICLE NEXT ARTICLE → Paladin Best Practices: Optimizing EDI by Charles Owen, Chief Experience Officer | July 27, 2022 Electronic Data Interchange: According to Wikipedia it’s “electronically communicating information between businesses that was...
Paladin People – Austin Lee

Paladin People – Austin Lee

← PREVIOUS ARTICLE NEXT ARTICLE → Paladin People – Austin Lee Austin is Passionate About Life and Helping Clients Austin Lee is a gregarious, adventurous and outgoing guy. He’s backpacked all over Europe. He’s run with the bulls in Pamplona, Spain. And...
Customer Incentive Programs Reward Your Business

Customer Incentive Programs Reward Your Business

← PREVIOUS ARTICLE NEXT ARTICLE → Customer Incentive Programs Reward Your Business One of the lesser-talked-about effects of the pandemic on the retail industry was how transient consumers became. It’s hard to blame them. Store closures and supply chain...
Hometown Hardware Wins Beacon Award

Industry News – August 2022

← PREVIOUS ARTICLE NEXT ARTICLE → Industry News – August 2022 Here are some recent notices and stories from the retail industry news. NHPA Recognizes Young Retailers of 2020 The North American Hardware and Paint Association honored its 2022 Young...
Paladin People – Brandon Hays

Paladin People – Brandon Hays

← PREVIOUS ARTICLE NEXT ARTICLE → Paladin People – Brandon Hays Networking is Brandon’s Expertise Paladin clients who get the chance to talk to Network Technician Brandon Hays should come away with at least two impressions. First, Brandon knows...
Better Cybersafe Than Sorry

Two New Integrations Coming in Latest Paladin Release

← PREVIOUS ARTICLE NEXT ARTICLE → Two New Integrations Coming in Latest Paladin Release In our constant search to simplify retail operations, our latest software update features a pair of new integrations for our hardware and pharmacy clients.  The Farmers...
Is the Time Right for Electronic Shelf Labels?

Is the Time Right for Electronic Shelf Labels?

← PREVIOUS ARTICLE NEXT ARTICLE → Is the Time Right for Electronic Shelf Labels? Electronic shelf labels (ESLs) have been around for close to 30 years, and it would probably be hard to find an electronic retail product that has generated less stir. But...
Hometown Hardware Wins Beacon Award

Industry News – July 2022

← PREVIOUS ARTICLE NEXT ARTICLE → Industry News – July 2022 Here are some recent notices and stories from the retail industry news. It’s All in the Family Farm Stores in the Texas Panhandle  Family Farm Stores have been a staple for farm, pet and ranch...
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