By Jen Johnston, CHHC, senior marketing services account manager, for the Resolutions blog series If you aren’t selling your products into retail as quickly as you’d like, it’s time to re-evaluate your pitch to buyers. I’ve seen hundreds of presentations and plenty of problems and missed opportunities. These problems usually stem from one common flaw — … Read More
Everything is Wellness and Wellness is Everywhere
By Jen Johnston, CHHC, senior marketing services account manager, for the Culture of Wellness blog series Personal wellness and self-care has been on my radar since my teen years. In the mid- to late-90’s, I spent an unreasonably large amount of time camped out in the self-improvement and alternative health aisles of the local bookstore. … Read More
Donating blood to help those in need
By Steve Brester, IT Director, for the Tradition of Giving blog series For over ten years, HRG has had a relationship with the Blood Center of Wisconsin. When I became chairman of the Wellness Committee a few years back, I made it a priority to set up recurring blood drives at our office every eight weeks. You … Read More
Robust websites to facilitate the fixture setting or reset process
From the desk of Holly Jablonowski, project manager, for the Focus on Fixtures blog series Our custom reorder website is a very efficient, streamlined solution for ongoing, seamless delivery of replacement or missing pieces that are often requested as part of a fixture reset. We worked with a retail chain to update their beauty department, handling … Read More
Resolution: Consider your disabled customers and their needs
By Althea R., data assets specialist, for the Resolutions blog series Because of a foot surgery and very slow recovery afterwards, I was temporarily disabled for five months last year. During those months of recovery, I used crutches and a cane, scooted around on a knee scooter, and/or wore a big therapeutic boot. After two … Read More
Career Day at Kilbourn School
By Julie Bonnell, vice president operations, for the Tradition of Giving blog series I had the opportunity to speak to 90 third, fourth, and fifth grade students at Kilbourn Elementary on the west side of Milwaukee for their Career Day. Ms. LaMarre, a teacher at the school, invited me to share my background as well as talk … Read More
Resolution: Get product images for all of the items we carry
By Julie Bonnell, vice president operations, for the Resolutions blog series Why Images? Have you noticed how images are replacing words in our daily life? Think about the popularity and use of emojis and YouTube and the prevalence of infographics. Why is that? Quite simply, they effectively convey complex information. And more importantly, from … Read More
We always rally when one of us is going through a tough time
By Megan Moyer, senior marketing communications specialist, for the Tradition of Giving blog series Last year, the first week of March, I came in on Monday to learn my co-worker and friend, Jen, had left early the Friday before not feeling well (I had been off). She wasn’t at work yet, so I texted her … Read More
Resolution: Say “thank you” to show appreciation for your customers’ business
By Julie Bonnell, vice president operations, for the Resolutions blog series I appreciate you taking the time… Yes, you, the person reading this blog post. I appreciate that you are investing this moment of your busy day to read my thoughts, and I understand your time is precious. Quick check-in question — how does this … Read More
Giving back through acts of service – Fight for Air Climb
By Julie Bonnell, vice president of operations, for the Tradition of Giving blog series The HRG team is known for raising funds throughout the year for various causes, but we are also very much hands-on and, when we can, like to see the results of our efforts in giving. Last year we chose to … Read More