instant results, so how do you deal with that with your retailers? it s tough. you have to really prepare them sometimes to say if something doesn t work right out of the gate, maybe the sell-through wasn t as high as we expected in the first month, but look at the engagement we re doing. you both have done it very successfully so thank you very much for your advice. thank you. all right. hands down this is the best yourbizselfie we have ever gotten. it comes from david stephenson, he owns kastle pigeon in lexington, kentucky. his company that he runs with his wife, angie, sells pigeon nutritional supplements, pigeon-themed apparel and prints of his pigeon photographs. now all of you out there try to beat him for the best selfie. get out your smartphone, take a selfie of you and your business and send it to us at yourbusiness@msnbc.com or tweet it to @msnbcyourbiz and please
the #yourbizselfie. thank you for joining us today. we love hearing from you. if you have any questions or want to say hi, send us an e-mail to yourbusiness@msnbc.com. also go to our website, openforum.com/yourbusiness. we put up all of the segments from today s show plus a lot more. you can connect with us every day and every night on our digital and social media platforms, too. we look forward to see you next time. until then, i m j.j. ramberg. remember, we make your business our business. thank you so much. thank you! so we re a go? yes! we got a yes! what does that mean for purchasing? purchase. let s do this. got it. book the flights! hai! si! si! ya! ya! ya! what does that mean for us? we can get stuff. what s it mean for shipping?
and you really want to wake up five years thefrom now excited wake up, excited to know that the things that you do end up serving somebody else. and in a doesn that doesn t necessarily mean partnering with a nonprofit. it could mean working with responsible factories or sourcing your products fairly. exactly. thanks both of you. this week s your biz selfl f i comes from ken who owns apollo packaging. you love so happy there. he provides high quality packaging and janitorial supplies. now all of you pick up your smartphone and take a selfie of you and your business and send to yourbusiness@msnbc.com or tweet to @msnbcyourbiz. include your name, location and #yourbizselfie. thank you so much for joining
and stuff like that and make it look professional and polished and post it on my social media. it looks like i ve had someone really pull it together that s professional. i m not, i m just a regular person doing it. one of the tools we use is light speed pos. it s a great web-based, cloud-based pos system. right now i can look on my cell phone or my mac and i can pull up inventory, sales for the day, it shows it s a really good thing. otherwise i can tell during the day where our sales are, if we re slow during a couple hours or speeding up. it s a really great tool. let s hit the beach for this week s yourbizselfie. from bill poffe and david mcnear who own bana beachtime. take a selfie of you and your business and send it to
now why don t you pick up your smartphone and send it to your business at msnbc.com or tweet it. include your name, the name of your business and the location and anything fun or interest about your company. please don t forget to use the hash tag, yourbizselfie. thank you so much for joining us today. as we start our 12th season, i have two groups of people i really want to thank. first of all is my team. most of whom, if you can believe it, have been with us since the very beginning, and they work so incredibly hard to put this show on every week and keep these stories interesting and find our guests. so i owe them a very big thank you. and second of all, i would love to thank all of your guests. running a business is incredibly fun, but it is also really, really hard, and we have challenged these guests to be honest about what they do. because it s the only way that i think that i and you as the audience can really get inspired and learn from what other business owners and business