In addition to a seminar on operational excellence for family-owned businesses, Les and Seth shared their secret to success with pawnbrokers from all over the country at the 2017 Midwest Pawnbrokers Convention held May 5-7 in Nashville, Tennessee.
Les and Seth Gold presented a talk entitled ‘Facing Your Fears and Mapping out your Future’ to a group of peer pawnbrokers in Gulf Shores, Alabama as guests of the Dixie Pawnbrokers Educational Conference. In it, they shared their own personal stories of success and challenge and some of the…
[Originally posted at the WordSmith blog] If you’ve been on a shopping trip to New York City, no doubt institutions like Bergdorf’s, Bloomindale’s and Barneys ring a bell. We are at none of those places; we’re not even in the same borough. Instead, we’re at a pawnshop in Queens and…
We’ve had so many great guests on the podcast and it’s always especially fun to welcome them into the studio. But we’ve never attempted anything like what we did for this week’s episode–and it was a BLAST! We welcomed about a dozen pawnbrokers from all over the country who came…
As we do each year, Les and I recently traveled to the annual convention and tradeshow of the pawnbroking industry, Pawn Expo, July 12-14, 2016. Among the many highlights was the selection of Greg Engstrom, founder of Ameripawn in Valparaiso, IN, as the recipient of the 2016 Pawnbroker of the…