Urbanum
Meet Brigid Beaubien, the founder of Urbanum, located in Detroit’s New Center area. Check out Brigid’s story and how TechTown’s Retail Boot Camp program helped Brigid take the leap to step out on her own.
Meet Brigid Beaubien, the founder of Urbanum, located in Detroit’s New Center area. Check out Brigid’s story and how TechTown’s Retail Boot Camp program helped Brigid take the leap to step out on her own.
With a little planning and purposeful decision-making, you can create a visually stunning pop-up display that can be scaled for a variety of spaces, make a strong statement about your brand and gain the interest of new customers.Pop-ups are a great way to test products, broaden brand exposure and awareness and gain new customers. Unfortunately, many vendors underestimate the value that well-executed visual merchandising can have on gaining new customers and increasing sales. If your display is boring or unattractive, customers will keep walking by, but if you can gain their attention, you have an opportunity to convert them to a customer for life.The effort you put into your pop-up display can have a significant impact on your bottom line. Visual merchandising is an art. It doesn’t need to be complicated, simply make thoughtful and purposeful choices and create a set of tools to convey your brand story to potential customers.TechTown now offers a custom fixture library to vendors at our monthly pop-up, The SHOP, to help entrepreneurs learn and practice these three tips for next-level pop-up merchandising:
For many minority entrepreneurs, it’s difficult to discover the proper support in communities that have not always been inclusive of everyone. Juan Carlos Dueweke-Perez created his marketing agency Featherstone Moments to address the challenges faced by businesses owners of color, women and the LGBTQ community. Find out more about how his company works with entrepreneurs and why he loves coworking at TechTown.
Hailing from Texas, Nikki Neuzil has always had a passion for vintage fashion. After opening and running a successful vintage store in Austin, Nikki and her husband relocated and opened a new store in Southwest Detroit. Flamingo Vintage offers men’s and women’s clothing and accessories from the 1920s through the ’80s as well as furniture and mid-century home decor. Learn more about Nikki’s time in TechTown’s Retail Boot Camp.
Did you know that food allergies have increased 377 percent in the last 10 years? Meet Javier Evelyn, founder of Alerje. Javier and his team are working to save lives around the world by creating products to serve those impacted by food allergies. Learn more about TechTown’s role in Javier’s entrepreneurial journey.