The TIA is working with retailers to create a TIA Retail Division with a mission that aims “to grow the economic vitality of tennis retailers and the sport of tennis through a unified effort involving all segments of the industry.”
The initial task force for the division will include members from the TIA Retail Advisory Panel: Ken Arnold of Swetka’s Tennis Shop, Mountain View, CA; Brad Blume of Tennis Express, Houston, TX; Dan Kester of I Play Tennis, Atlanta, GA; Bruce Levine of Courtside Racquet Club, Lebanon, NJ; Woody Schneider of New York City Racquet Sports; Steve Vorhaus of Rocky Mountain Racquet Specialists, Boulder, CO.; and Jay Townley, retail consultant with the Gluskin Townley Group.
Get Involved Now
Go to TennisRetailers.org to sign up your business now for the Tennis Retail Locator, so consumers can easily find you. For retailers, TennisRetailers.org will be the place for timely news and important information, including blogs and forums, to help you run and grow your business.
The TIA Retail Advantage
As a voting member of the TIA Retail Division, you’ll be part of a unified effort to help boost tennis retail in the U.S., help determine key focus areas of the tennis industry, and help promote the growth of tennis. Not only will you have a chance to get involved in moving this industry forward, but you’ll also receive many direct benefits and tools that can move your business forward.
10 and Under Tennis Retail Tool Kit that includes a Growth Chart wall poster, copies of the “Parents’ Guide to Tennis, and an “Authorized Dealer” door sticker.
TIA TennisInsure™ program is designed to meet the insurance needs of your Business or Facility. As a member of the TIA you have access to our custom insurance program created to respond to your Health, Liability, Property, Auto, Umbrella and Work Comp requirements. Our health insurance program is available through eHealth.com and supplemental programs are covered by Aflac. You can access these programs through www.TennisInsure.com.
Exclusive Association Pricing for TIA Members Services that could save you hundreds of dollars or more each year! Preferred Card will pay $100 towards your TIA Retail Division Dues – click here or call 800.656.0077 to find out more today!
"PartnerShip" shipping discount program on select FedEx services that could save you hundreds or thousands of dollars each year. Take advantage of savings on inbound and outbound shipments, including up to 70% off select prorams.
Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant by W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne, Harvard Business Press School Press.
Why Customers Do What They Do: Who They Are, Why They Buy, and How You Can Anticipate Their Every Move by Marshal Cohen, Chief Industry Analyst, The NPD Group, McGraw-Hill.
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell, Little, Brown and Company.
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell, Little, Brown and Company.
Trading Up: Why Consumers Want New Luxury Goods – and How Companies Create Them by Michael J. Silverstein and Neil Fiske, Penguin Group.
Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping by Paco Underhill, Simon & Schuster.
The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More by Chris Anderson, Hyperion.
Nine Shift: Work, Life and Education in the 21st Century by William A. Draves and Julie Coates, LERN Books.
Nine Shift: Work, Life and Education in the 21st Century by William A. Draves and Julie Coates, LERN Books.
Retail Communities: Customer-Drive Retailing by Don E. Schultz, Ph.D., Martin P. Block, Ph.D. & BIGresearch, Prosper Publishing.
Why Service Stinks…and Exactly What to Do About It by T. Scott Gross, Dearborn Trade Publishing.
When Customers Talk…Turn What They Tell You Into Sales by T. Scott Gross & BIGresearch, Dearborn Trade Publishing.
Marketing Your Retail Store in the internet age by Bob & Susan Negen, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Positively Outrageous Service: New & Easy Ways to Win Customers for Life by T. Scott Gross, Mastermedia Limited.
The New Rules Of Retail: Competing In The World's Toughest Marketplace by Robin Lewis & Michael Dart, Palgrave MacMillan.
The Age Curve: How to Profit from the Coming Demographic Storm by Kenneth W. Gronbach, American Management Association.
Brand Harmony: Achieving DYNAMIC Results By Orchestrating Your Customers' Total Experience, by Steve Yastrow, a Tom Peters Company Press Book.
Micro Branding: Building a Powerful Personal Brand & Best Your Competition by T. Scott Gross, Leading Authorities Press.
Just Ask A Woman: Cracking the Code of What Women Want and How They Buy, by Mary Lou Quinlan, John Wiley & Sons.
Retail 2020: Reinventing retailing – once again, a joint project between IBM and New York University Stern School of Business, and Thought Leadership White Paper published by IBM Corporation.
The Future of Retail, a Harvard Business Review Insight Center Report, Sponsored by SAS and published by Harvard Business School Publishing.
How 'point of sale' became much more than a fancy calculator, by Ian Hardy, Technology reporter, BBC News, New York.
Millennial Shoppers: Tapping into the Next Growth Segment, Symphony IRI Group
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More than fifty tennis businesses and organizations from across the country and many with an international presence will be on hand as exhibitors for The Tennis Show 2014, set for Sunday, Aug. 24, at the Grand Hyatt New York.
With many parts of the country finally “thawing out” from the extended winter season, pro/specialty retailers saw a 1% uptick in their racquet unit sales for the month of May as compared to the same period in 2013.
As many parts of the country begin to recover from what was a substantially extended winter season and the first signs of spring began to show, racquet unit sales in the pro/specialty retail channels increased 2% in April.
Tennis is the only traditional participation sport to be ranked in the Top 10 in terms of participation growth, out of nearly 120 sports and activities surveyed in the recently released Physical Activity Council (PAC) 2013 Participation Report
This coming September tennis facilities and coaches from across the country will be encouraging new players to get into the game with the "Try Tennis for Free" campaign. This promotion is a continuation of the successful joint efforts of th...
