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Charles
Bolinger Wins
2005 Grand
Silver Cup
Charles Bolinger of
Chuck's Shoe Repair & Comfort Center in Fort Wayne, Ind.
took top honors in the 2005 Silver Cup Contest,
receiving the Grand Silver Cup in Kansas City.
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SSIA's
Kansas City Convention a Success
The Shoe Service Institute
of America held its 101st Annual Convention last month
in Kansas City. The weekend was packed with educational
seminars and featured an expo in which approximately 30
exhibitors showed their products and services. The
seminars are highlighted in the articles below.
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SSIA BUSINESS BUILDERS
Counter
Intelligence: Improving Profits on the Front Line
“Be an educator, not an
order taker,” said Randy Lipson as he was talking to his
peers at SSIA’s 101st Annual Convention in
Kansas City. Lipson, spoke about what shoe repair
retailers can do to improve profits at the counter. He
identified several keys to profitability.
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Seven Tips to be a
Better Salesperson
Here are seven tips to be
a better sales person from Randy Lispon’s seminar at
SSIA’s 101st Annual Convention. Lipson owns
Cobblestone Shoe Repair in St. Louis.
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Pedorthics Offers
Opportunities to Shoe Repair Professionals
“The shoe repair industry
has changed,” says Linda Tallent, C. Ped of Oklahoma
State University-Okmulgee. “When I entered the field in
1976, there were 25,000 shops in the United States. Now,
estimates vary from 6,000 to 8,000. Footwear has
changed. We’re dealing with injection-molded soles and
polyurethane. Our work requires new chemicals and new
techniques.”
Tallent spoke to shoe
repairers at SSIA’s 101st Annual Convention
in Kansas City this summer. She suggested that
successful shoe repair businesses need to adapt to the
changing environment and use it to their advantage. One
way to do that is by expanding into Pedorthic work.
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Promoting on a Shoe
String
Here are some marketing
tips that don’t cost a fortune courtesy of Jeff Lipson
of Cobblestone Shoe Repair in St. Louis. Jeff spoke at
SSIA’s 101st Annual Convention in Kansas City.
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SHOP TALK
Tips & Tricks
from Kansas City
Bruce Owensby of Wayland
Square Shoe Repair in Providence, R.I. moderated a
session on tips and tricks at SSIA’s 101st
Annual Convention. The session was designed for
repairers to share with their peers anything that had
worked for them on any subject. Here are a few of the
ideas.
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SSIA NEWS
102nd
Annual Convention Set for Orlando in 2006
SSIA is heading to Orlando
for its 102nd Annual Convention.
The
Sheraton World Resort will
host the meeting August 18-19, 2006. Watch
www.ssia.info for
more details.
Karen
Gehrig Receives First Harvey Greenbaum Scholarship
In 2004, the Harvey
Greenbaum Scholarship was established to be awarded to a
student who works in shoe repair or whose parent works
in shoe repair. Two Ten's current Harvey Greenbaum
scholar, Karen Gehrig, is about to enter her sophomore
year at Texas A&M, where she is an Education major.
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SSIA Bags
Still Available
The Shoe Service Institute
of America is preparing for its second printing of
promotional bags for shoe repair shops.
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Use the SSIA
Logo to Promote Your Business
Promote the fact that you are a member of SSIA by using
our logo on your marketing materials. We've made our
logo available for downloading in the members-only
section of our web site.
Click here for
details. You'll need your user id and password. If
you don't know what they are, e-mail
webmaster@ssia.info.
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