Welcome to the lab
Hardware Innovators
Mastermind Group
Are you a leader at a local hardware store? Are you looking to innovate your store’s technology and learn new tools for improving employee productivity and company culture? If that sounds like you then you’ve arrived to the right place. Here, you will find likeminded hardware retail leaders offering collaboration, inspiration, and access, so your store can not only grow, but thrive in today’s world.
Get the spark of connection with Hardware Innovators now!
Who are Innovators?
We are a collective group of hardware retail industry Business Owners, General Managers, Marketing Specialists, and OSR. Beyond wanting to innovate our stores, we all share a common bond of owning and operating local home grown stores and that have similar challenges and needs. For this reason, we are dedicated to creating meaningful connections, elevating our professional skills, and sharing information to grow our businesses.
Why Join Hardware Innovators?
Elevate Your Hardware Store
Learn and test new and useful technology to help you run a tighter ship and focus on better ways to provide for your customers and employees.
Experience Real-time Connection
Learn innovative ways to foster new and authentic relationships with the local community and employees that nurtures a strong and durable culture.
Unlock Business Growth
Use shared information & processes from a hive of knowledgeable business owners to help grow your business with proven strategies to adapt and fit the culture of your store.
Attend A Mastermind Event
Your Monthly Mastermind is the third Wednesday of every month on Zoom. The roundtable-style meetups are 40-45 minutes, so feel free to join multiple! The line-up will remain the same but the topics will change.
Member Wisdom & Insights
January 2026 Mastermind Recap
January is a reset month for hardware retailers who are balancing day-to-day operations while setting the tone for the year ahead. That showed up clearly in January’s Mastermind conversations, where innovators focused less on theory and more on what worked in 2025 and what they plan to bring into the new year.
15 B2B Touchpoints That Could Turn Your Hardware Store into the Local Default Supplier
In small towns, B2B sales don’t work because of one big campaign or a flashy promotion. It works because your store is everywhere your contractors already are — job sites, inboxes, checkout counters, community conversations, and local events. Inside the Hardware...
December 2025 Mastermind Recap
As 2025 came to a close, many hardware retailers were running on fumes. We are all trying to finish the year strong, manage holiday rushes, navigate staffing challenges, and keep customers taken care of during an unpredictable retail season. That’s what made December’s Hardware Innovators Mastermind conversations especially meaningful. Let’s dig into the key takeaways from this month’s conversations!
Get Connected!
The process is simple, but the commitment is real. Are you ready to become an innovator??
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APPLY
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CONNECT
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INNOVATE!