Four Things You Need to Know About TPE23
As the must-attend B2B buying show for independent retailers, the 2023 Total Product Expo (TPE) is timed to start the year with solid profit...
Personal Business: Artista’s Ram Rodriguez, Part 1
Ram Rodriguez is the third generation of a family rooted in tobacco. In 1956, his grandfather launched what’s known today as Tabacalera El Artista...
Building Your Tobacco Business with Video
Do you want to grow your store’s customer base? The best tool you can use to gain new customers and sell more products may...
5 Tips for a Better Press Release
Looking to write a press release that gets results? Alec Bradley Cigars’ director of sales and marketing, Jonathan Lipson, offers these five tips:
Start with...
3 Tips for Making Boutique Brands Work for You
Jeffrey Amendola, co-owner of Amendola Family Cigar Company, notes that a lot of smaller brands get overlooked in a humidor because customers will often...
When Retail Takes Flight
When Ramón Torres was a teenager, his family operated a duty-free store located along the U.S./Mexico border in California. Like many who work in...
Less-Risky Business
How would you describe your current customer base? What are you doing to attract new customers? These are questions every retailer should be asking...
Boutique by Design
Antonio “Tony” Gomez was born into a cigar family. His father, Litto Gomez, and stepmother, Ines Lorenzo-Gomez, set out to start their own cigar...
Expression of a Journey: Cavalier Cigars
Do you remember what you did when you were 22 years old? When he was that age, Sébastien Decoppet left his corporate job, sold...
Restoring History: Inside J.C. Newman’s El Reloj Restoration
For J.C. Newman Cigar Company, its history and the stories that come from it are at the core of its business. It was back...
