The Gray Cat Blog
A comprehensive collection of blogs designed to assist small business owners and multi-unit operators.
I recently created a new presentation called There’s a New Store in Town – Are You Ready for the Disruption? This presentation covered a myriad of...
I love to create something from the ground up.
As an avid gardener, I have done this many times over – taking a raw piece of dirt and creating a magical paradise creating...
One of the most important, yet biggest challenges facing a retailer is creating a new store vision for your chain, while simultaneously running your day-to-day business. There are only...
We select our store locations. We select our staff. We select the merchandise to carry; and along those lines, we select our vendors. Selecting the correct vendors – in addition to ...
Recently, I appeared on the Big Pixel podcast where we chatted on a number of business topics including incentives for employees.
Here is a minute-long clip on an incentive program we tied to...
Change is inevitable.
We change where we live; we change relationships; and we change our jobs. Change has been with us throughout time, but the worldwide pandemic seemed to put change...
“What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate” – from the movie, Cool Hand Luke
Fire. Aim. Ready. If this is your communications...
Gray Cat often gets asked to step into a senior-level role to manage an enterprise-wide project (https://www.graycatenterprises.com/blog/project-management)
We get tasked with leading...
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Introducing the Gray Cat Learning Series
I am John Matthews, Founder and President of Gray Cat...
