xbiz world
xbiz premiere

GrandOpening.com

News & Articles
9 results:

Kim Airs Offers Sales Boosting Program

Kim Airs unveils her latest endeavor, The Kim Airs Sales Boost that seeks to “provide adult toy manufacturers of adult toys and products personal contact at both the distributor and retail level without the expense of a full time staff member.”

GrandOpening.com's Kim Airs Attending BlogHer Convention

Kim Airs, adult industry journalist and founder of the online adult boutique Grand Opening!, will be attending the BlogHer Convention this weekend.

Owning Your Craft: Working in the Pleasure Products Biz

If you have this issue of XBIZ in your hot little hands while you’re reading this, chances are good that you’re in the adult industry. Yes, the adult industry. I like using that term because it covers so many aspects of our huge business and it’s a little tamer than saying “The Sex Business” although I like using those words to describe what trade I’m in as well.

Kim Airs ·
opinion

Tips for Landing a Job in the Pleasure Products Industry

“I want to be you!” the clerk in the adult store exclaimed. “You have the most awesome job and I want to do that, too!”

Kim Airs ·
opinion

Keep Sales Fresh With New Products, Forgotten Bestsellers

“What’s new?” That phrase keeps companies creating new products, new stimulators, new vibes, new things to stick in, new things to rub on, new, new, new. Every sex toy show has vendors displaying what’s new so they can be bought by distributors to bring them to their retailers to show them what’s new because a customer will always ask, “what’s new?”

Kim Airs ·
opinion

Retail Sales: No Thanks, I’m Just Looking

All of us in this wacky industry of adult toys and products often find ourselves as working as sales floor staff, selling blush-inducing devices like a vibrator for a jittery first time buyer or those insta-hard on pills to baby boomers who read somewhere that they really work.

Kim Airs ·
opinion

The Payback of Taking Back ‘Defective’ Items

We all love a returning customer but not so much a customer that returns products. Given the nature of our industry, whether you are my favorite bricks-and-mortar kind of store or just work your magic on the Internet, returns have always been a really tricky topic to address. Do you take returns? Does your distributor take returns?

Kim Airs ·
opinion

Creating an In-Store Experience That Outshines Online Competition

I continuously am marveled and amazed about the power of the web and now smart phone apps. I know some of you are snickering at this probably simplistic statement but being a woman of a certain age, tapping the single Shazam button to know who recorded a song and then reading the lyrics in a fancy, ever-changing layout while it’s playing is something I always fantasized about being able to do (and you thought it was all about sex, right?).

Kim Airs ·
opinion

Sex Store Spectrum

I’ve officially been in this wacky biz ever since I opened Grand Opening! in Brookline, Mass., in 1993. My love for adult stores started percolating in 1987, perhaps since before some of you were born.

Kim Airs ·