Hannah Grimes 
Retail Focus Newsletter
February 2013
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Events to Help Your Business Innovate
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SMART Goals for 2013
With Rich Grogan
Tuesday, February 19, 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Hannah Grimes Center, Keene
Cost: free
The SMART Goals workshop will start by defining SMART goals, and will also cover the reasons that a business might want to set SMART goals, and how these goals can be used as tools to help businesses both define and achieve strategic objectives. Participants will be given a tool that outlines a process to help them to write SMART goals on their own. Click here to register, or for more information contact Jillian at Hannah Grimes or call 603-352-5063.
Workers' Compensation - Understanding the Technical Aspects
Leddy Group Webinar
Wednesday, February 20, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Greater Keene Chamber of Commerce, Keene
Cost: free
Workers' compensation expert Fran Lefavour will help us understand the technical aspects of workers' compensation, including: terminology, your experience modification factor, reading a loss run, and preparing for renewal. Click here to register and for more information.
Shopper Marketing/Shopper Insights Webinar
Category Management Association
Thursday, February 28, 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Cost: free
Focuses on how retailers and manufacturers are using shopper behavior and the changes in the market environment including trends, changes to demographics and anything impacting trip behaviors, buyer conversion and related topics. Click here for more information and to register.
What Retailers Must Know About Healthcare Reform (As of March 2013) Webinar
Tuesday, March 12, 8:30 a.m. EST
Presented by Randal Limbeck, Partner, Omaha, NE Office, Jackson Lewis LLP
Cost: free
Major components of the Affordable Care Act are scheduled to take effect in 2013. This webinar will cover issues every employer must know about the ACA including:
- Who is covered
- Important dates
- Individual and employer mandates
- What are "grandfathered" plans
- Minimum essential coverage
- Reporting requirements
- Notice to employees
- Waiting periods
- Penalties
- Nondiscrimination rules
- Definitions of some of the terminology
- What is still up in the air
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Events to Help You Connect with Retailers & Other Experts
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Washington Leadership Conference 2013
Tuesday and Wednesday, May 7-8
The Madison Hotel, Washington, D.C.
For the past twelve months, NRF has diligently been pushing for the retail industry's interests on Capitol Hill, promoting job creation, strengthening swipe fee reform, pursuing tax reform, eliminating health care mandates, and protecting smart privacy policy. At the center of it all, the Retail Means Jobs campaign has been educating lawmakers, consumers and the general public about the jobs, innovation and consumer value that retail brings to America. Click here for registration and more information.
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News & Resources to Inform & Inspire
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For communities that want to crowd source their future, but looking for interim steps to sweeping transformation, a national trend of pop-up place making is creating opportunities to preview forward-thinking visions on a more trial-like basis. We've been hearing much about pop-up retail, with aspiring entrepreneurs renting as-is vacant storefront space at significantly reduced month-to-month leases while the building owner seeks permanent tenants, and one such place in Grand Rapids, Michigan takes it a step further.
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