Hallmark Gift Discussion Forum for Retail and Wholesale



How to join Retailreality Retailreality is for Hallmark retailers. Retailreality was started because of the need for independently owned Hallmark store owners to communicate with each other. Our community is a place where Hallmark retailers can share their knowledge about retailing and stay current on time and money-saving operational issues. Read here what our members have to say about Retailreality. Since the start of Retailreality (March, 2001) there have been thousands of messages posted within our Yahoo Groups forum board. We have discussed issues from POS, product buying, to employee problems. Many of the members turn to Retailreality first when they are looking for hard to find items for their customers. Our community consist of a main forum board (Yahoo Groups Forum Board and a Backup Forum Board to be used if the main board is down. While Retailreality is not free I think you will find the small fee well worth it. $99.00 (Non-refundable) Completing the steps to join Retailreality should take about 15 minutes. Just follow my steps below and if you have any problem please click the "Contact Us" link to the left. In short you will be instructed to join the Yahoo Groups board for Retailreality, fill in and print a registration form, then send the form and your membership fee to me. Our message board is the Yahoo Groups message board located here. Bookmark this location. THIS STEP CAN ONLY BE COMPLETED BY YOU. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR ME TO COMPLETE IT FOR YOU. On the Yahoo Groups Forum Board home page click the link "Join This Group!" and follow Yahoo's directions. You will need to create a Yahoo ID so you can log in to the message board. In Yahoo's directions make sure you fill in your real working email address in the "Alternate Email" location. Yahoo will send an email to that address so that you can prove to them it belongs to you. Follow the directions in that email. It may take minutes or sometimes an hour or so to get that email. It all depends on how busy Yahoo's server is. Once you complete that you will be a "Pending Member" until I approve you. You have less than 14 days for me to receive your fee. After that Yahoo will automatically remove you and you have to start over. WRITE DOWN YOUR YAHOO ID AND PASSWORD. IF YOU FORGET THEM I CAN NOT GET THEM FOR YOU. Next you will need to provide some information for me. The link below will get you to the information I need. Print out the form that appears after you hit the submit button. Mail that form to the address on the bottom of it and include a business check for your membership fee you computed from the above chart. If at anytime you have any questions please click the "Contact Us" link to the left and email me at that address. Please include details. CLICK HERE to get to the registration form for new members