How to Grow Your Retail Business

How to Grow Your Retail Business

If you’ve looked at your inventory turn, improved your inventory freshness, and taken the markdowns where needed, what’s next? Dan Jablons explains that your next move is to figure out what categories of your business have growth opportunity. Watch and...
Unsold Retail Inventory? How to Break Free

Unsold Retail Inventory? How to Break Free

Old inventory got you down? Sell it on Max Retail. In this post, industry expert Dan Jablons of Retail Smart Guys explains how how to free up cashflow and sell your excess retail inventory. Watch and learn from Dan. Break free of excess inventory One of the things I...
Inventory Turn: Where Money Is Made in Retail

Inventory Turn: Where Money Is Made in Retail

What is inventory turn? Turn is where retailers make money. Max Retail provides our retailer community with educational videos and exclusive content to help maximize your sales! Watch part 4, Intro to Turn, brought to you by Max Retail and Dan Jablons at Retail Smart...
Inventory Freshness: Keep Customers Coming Back

Inventory Freshness: Keep Customers Coming Back

What is inventory freshness for retailers? We teamed up with industry expert Dan Jablons of Retail Smart Guys to provide retailers with educational content to help your business thrive. Check out the third part of our series to learn how inventory freshness can boost...
Cash Margin and What It Means for Your Business

Cash Margin and What It Means for Your Business

Cash margin looks at the net change in your bank account. Here’s what you as a retailer can learn about your business from it. Max Retail provides our retailer community with educational videos and exclusive content to help maximize your sales! Take a look at part 2...
Spirit of 608

Spirit of 608

How Swap Retail’s Melodie van der Baan Sells with Soul and Turned a Manual Process Into a Inventory Swapping Startup for Fashion Retailers This podcast originally appeared on Spirit of 608 on February 24, 2021. I love startup stories that involve taking a...
Forbes

Forbes

A Matchmaker For Main Street Boutiques: SwapRetail Offers Stores A Lifeline This article originally appeared on Forbes on January 18, 2021. When Melodie van der Baan was a sales rep for fashion brands, she would keep her specialty retail accounts happy by helping them...
RetailWire

RetailWire

BrainTrust LIVE: Celebrating National Entrepreneurs Day This video originally appeared on RetailWire in 2021. Karen Herman and other members of the RetailWire BrainTrust chat about the common challenges of being a start-up tech provider in the retail space and what...
Rethink Retail

Rethink Retail

Retail Rundown with Jesse Wragg and Melodie van der Baan This podcast originally appeared on Rethink Retail on November 9, 2020. For November 9, 2020, Retail Rundown, your go-to weekly podcast where RETHINK Retail teams up with industry experts to deliver the top...
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Morgan Hatin Bodstrom

Morgan Hatin Bodstrom

Co-founder | Chief People Officer

As co-founder and Chief People Officer, Morgan focuses on hiring the best talent for the team and fostering a united culture as they grow. Morgan previously co-owned a retail store with co-founder, Melodie. She also spent several years in executive recruiting in NYC with a focus in wholesale apparel, footwear and accessories.