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WELCOME
Join the Premier
Retail Networking Organization!
Get to Know Us
MAI RETAILERS is a Premier Retail Networking Organization. In 2017, MAI Retailers underwent a transformation and was renamed to better reflect their business owners and establish powerful connections with vendors. As a result, members now enjoy amazing buying discounts that help grow their businesses and foster strong relationships with vendors.
OUR VISION
MAI RETAILERS is a Premier Retail Networking Organization.
Monograms America, Inc. is a growing network of diverse business owners from across the country, many of whom own multiple stores. Originally formed in 1993 as Sew Smart, the organization focused solely on personalized products. However, a few years later, the need to re-brand arose, and Monograms America was born. Today, the organization offers a 50-mile radius territory protection, among other benefits, that allows members to freely share information about merchandise without fear of competition. The territory protection allows our members to freely share what works, and what doesn’t work, when it comes to merchandise ordered for their stores without fear of competition. More often than not, when one or two stores order an item, the information is shared through our private networking capabilities and before a buying show is over, more stores will have placed the order for that product! It is through that buying power that Monograms America member stores began to grow into diverse gift stores & boutiques. That growth and change produced another need to re-brand. In 2017, we renamed our organization to MAI Retailers to accurately depict our business owners, but to also create strong relationships that will positively impact the small and major brand vendors with our loyalty in reoccurring orders. This produces buying discounts that return a positive impact in our member’s individual business building strong relationships with vendors and providing recurring orders that benefit members' businesses.
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OUR SERVICES
Empowering Businesses as the Premier Retail Networking Organization.
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ONE OF THE MANY BENEFITS ...
FREE Hotel Nights
As a member of MAI Retailers, you will enjoy free hotel nights at neighboring hotels to AmericasMart and Dallas Market Center during the major Gift & Apparel markets. This perk alone more than pays for membership fees and makes buying trips easy!
What Our Members Are Saying ...
Lisa Nichols, Main Line Monograms
After opening my business six years ago as a sole proprietor and trying to navigate through everything, I stumbled upon Monograms America while in Atlanta. Joining has helped me with buying ideas, sharing experiences and friendships. The discounts you get are also a bonus. It’s a tremendous industry network.
Kerry Truluck & Samantha Butler, Southern Stitches
MAI has been such a valuable resource to us as new, small business owners! Anytime we have questions about a specific product or want to know how specific lines have been doing for other members, we are able to ask right away and get tons of feedback. I love the opportunity to share and lean on others who are doing exactly what we do. It is especially beneficial that we do not have the risk of local competitors being able to see what we ask and what we are doing. It’s just an overall awesome support network for small businesses.
Janet Burke, The Monogram Shop
MAI has been important to the success of my business for over 30 years. You can't put a dollar amount on the information you receive from networking with other shops that are not competitors and are experiencing many of the same problems and successes on a daily basis. I have made many lifelong friendships in this group and look forward to meeting with everyone at market and our conventions.
Debbie Timen, Lettrs Gifts
I joined Monograms America 18 years ago. It has helped my business tremendously. I have found new items through networking. The beginning of cutting vinyl to monogram gift items was pretty much founded by this organization. The relationship that we have with our vendors is amazing and the discounts we receive for being in this organization is priceless. They have really helped me grow my business and MAI can help you grow yours too!