(Season 1, Ep. 12): Kim Gordon on Making the Leap to Jewelry Store Ownership
Kim Gordon is living the dream — it's the dream of owning her own store, the aptly named Dream Jewelers in Oshkosh, WI. Gordon has spent most of her career in jewelry sales, having spent more than a d...
15 Sep 201948min
(Season 1, Ep. 11): The Dumbest Things We've Ever Done
If making mistakes is the best way to learn, then the latest episode of JimmyCast promises to be a tremendous learning experience. In the episode, Jimmy DeGroot and co-host Doug Meadows each share fiv...
16 Aug 201934min
(Season 1, Ep. 10): Secrets of Cool From EAT Gallery
In this month’s episode of JimmyCast, hosts Jimmy DeGroot and Doug Meadows chat with the manager of the winning store in the “Small Cool” division of INSTORE’s America’s Coolest Stores”, EAT Gallery o...
22 Jul 201932min
(Season 1, Ep. 9): Open the Dang Box
Open the box. That’s the central theme of the latest edition of JimmyCast.By “opening the box”, Jimmy and Doug mean jewelers’ tendency to grasp for things — a training course, a new technology, or a h...
1 Jul 201933min
(Season 1, Ep. 8): Doug Meadows Shares the Ups and Downs of His Life as a Jeweler
On this month’s JimmyCast, the focus turns to co-host Doug Meadows, who shares an abridged history of his life in jewelry retail.The interest in Doug’s story is probably not in its uniqueness, but rat...
12 Jun 201923min
(Season 1, Ep. 7): Would Your Customers Drive Hundreds of Miles for a Lab-Created Diamond?
Want to know more about selling lab-created diamonds? In the latest episode of JimmyCast, Jimmy DeGroot and co-host Doug Meadows talk with Joy Janssen of Eco Diamond, a family-owned jewelry retailer b...
8 Mai 201931min
(Season 1, Ep. 6): How and When to Fire Staff
In this month's episode of JimmyCast, Jimmy DeGroot and Doug Meadows talk about one of their least favorite things — firing staff.It’s one of the toughest things a store-owner has to do. But once you ...
16 Apr 201929min
(Season 1, Ep. 5): How Can Jewelry Stores Keep Their Best Employees?
In a tight job market where the average person seeks to "reinvent" themselves four or five times their career, what does a jewelry store have to do to keep its very best employees for the long-term?Th...
20 Mar 201933min
