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Slow Growth Business

Slow Growth Business

By: Jimmy DeGroot and Kyle Bullock
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 Exhausted and stressed by trying to grow your business fast enough, smart enough, profitably enough... to where it may not feel like you’re doing enough? Try the Slow Growth Approach to business and stop letting your business run YOU, YOU run IT! Join retail experts Jimmy DeGroot and Kyle Bullock each week as they unpack ideas, concepts, and steps you can take to intentionally grow your business, slow and steady and for the long haul. They use their decades of experience in the retail and luxury landscape as business owners and consultants to help you feel free to run your business the way you’ve always dreamed. This show sponsored by Kyle and Jimmy’s training platforms, TrainRetail.comCopyright 2024 All rights reserved. Economics Leadership Management Management & Leadership
Episodes
  • Turn Repairs Into Revenue — Sell, Don’t Just Fix

    Turn Repairs Into Revenue — Sell, Don’t Just Fix
    Sep 12 2025

    In this episode of Slow Growth Business, Jimmy DeGroot and Kyle Bullock teach independent jewelers how to turn repair, watch battery, and gold-buying traffic into profitable jewelry sales — or how to treat each service as its own profitable business. They cover customer profiling, asking the right questions, upselling repairs versus offering replacements, and measuring results to decide what to keep or cut.

    Practical examples include reshanking, companion bands, and handling low-margin services as charity or separate offerings, plus guidance for training staff to ‘sell’ repairs instead of just clerking them.
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    29 mins
  • Align Their Why: Turning Paychecks into Purpose

    Align Their Why: Turning Paychecks into Purpose
    Sep 3 2025

    Hosts Kyle Bullock and Jimmy DeGroot explore why passion doesn’t automatically transfer from owners to staff, and why pay alone won’t solve motivation problems. They cover practical approaches—paying a living wage, observing time/talent/treasure, asking better interview questions, using tools like Flag Page, and job-crafting roles—to align employee motivations with business goals.

    The episode shows how leaders can protect core values, speak each person’s language, and place people in roles that fit their drives so teams feel cared for, stay engaged, and help a business grow slowly and sustainably.
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    33 mins
  • You Don't Have to Give it Away

    You Don't Have to Give it Away
    Aug 28 2025
    33 mins
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