Preparing and monitoring honey for student salesGenerating new products and improving on others Personal selling to market raw honey and associated products to students, parents, and staff at Champlain CollegeDiscovered an efficiency in producing honey sticks and marketed them as an entry or add on item for customers, rounding up our sales when sold in bulkWith an abundance of wax from the hive this past season, I researched and developed a lip balm to utilize the excess raw material and generated another product for the apiary to sell

Responsible for providing a quick and efficient checkout at the cash register, providing customer assistance in locating items, creating sales incentives, loading out large items to customers vehicles. Off the register I often communicate with other employees, organize displays, stock shelves, back stock and price check product, in addition to cleaning the store. I also participated in Freight Days, which comprised of unloading pallets of merchandise and sorting it accordingly to be put out on the sales floor or stored in the back room. Relating to the customer and helping them complete their project, or find the product they were really searching for was the most satisfying aspect of this job. I created a weekly relationship with some customers- loading their purchases into their vehicle.

I own and operate the business; producing tie dye t-shirts and tapestries, creating graphic designs to screen print, and accept custom requests. I am responsible for ordering supplies and creating product, as well as organizing sales, product distribution, creating advertising, and managing social media.

General retail experience, I was directly responsible for auditing shoe stock, taking general inventory of product, reconstructing store layout, changing signage, and creating sales incentives.