Entrepreneur learns value of 'service first' strategy

Running a retail store requires multiple focus points, Beth Starnes has learned. Always at the top remains the customer.

  • By Mark Gordon
  • | 6:00 a.m. May 18, 2018
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With nearly three decades in interior design and staging homes for sale, in Southwest Florida and Nashville, Beth Starnes took a big career leap in 2014: she opened a consignment furniture and design store, seeking to capitalize on the surging Lee/Collier residential real estate market.

 

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