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I just recently visited a store in the Beaches in Toronto, Kids At Home.
They have been carrying our line of Tilano Chalk Paints and have been selling very well, so much so I had to do an in store interview to find out what was going on.
I will be posting the video on our retailers  page at the end of this week, so watch for it there.

The before the big trip

After returning from Toronto and attending the CGTA recently, I keep seeing the signs of what Debbie Travis was referring to: retailers need to listen to their customers and simply give them what they want. Service, expertise and a place to go - make the store a destination.
Many retailers don't realize they are a destination, they appear to set up shop and open the doors expecting the customers to come and keep coming.
Well like Smith Barney would say "we earn our customers one at a time."
Tilano is no different, since the retailer is our customer and so is the end consumer - double the opportunity! Some might say double trouble.
I loved meeting Debbie Travis since she was very inspiring to how retailer and the manufactures need to work together - "otherwise you will die."

Make shopping easy for the customer no matter the business, everyone has less time these days "especially women" as Debbie put it "WWW, it is not just world wide web, it is WHAT, WOMEN, WANT" - make retailing easy for them.

Tilano is in Toronto, Ontario this week for the Fall show at the CGTA. We are exhibiting the Toronto Congress Center Booth #8054, come and check us out!

What luck to be at the CGTA and get to meet an inspiring woman, Debbie Travis, a decorative artist who has made a very successful career in sharing her passion for decorating and taking risks with her creative design ideas. They are obviously paying off, if you haven't noticed check out her site www.debbietravis.com

She took some time out of her busy schedule to speak to the retailers on her perspectives about "what it takes to make your store great - make it a destination."