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Save The Girls Touchscreen Purses Exceeds $3 Million Annual Sales for 2023
While most businesses founded in the U.S. fail, against all odds, touch screen purse innovator and manufacturer Tami Lange president and founder of Save the Girls (STG)(Belleville, Illinois) achieved sales of more than $3 million annually for a 52% growth rate in 2023. Belleville is a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri located in the Metro East region of Greater St. Louis, MO. Studies from as recently as 2021 show that only 1.9% of all women-owned businesses had revenues of $1 million or more. Save The Girls not only reached but tripled the million-dollar threshold. Lange’s business survived the usual challenges of a female owned enterprises but also successfully overcame the Covid-19 pandemic. It was during that time 98% of the retail outlets that carried the Save The Girls Touchscreen Purse closed. During that time, Lange pivoted and introduced products that were useful and fashionable during that difficult time.
The success of STG largely owes to the growth of its breakthrough Touch Screen Purse line.
Beneficial Intention
The uniquely designed purse allows users full access to all functions of their cell phones while safely stored inside stylish purses. STG’s purse design promotes hygiene and safety by eliminating the need to place cell phones on shared surfaces in public places. Save The Girls Touchscreen Purses are available in over 2500 retail locations nationwide and featured internationally on QVC, TSC (Canadian Shopping Network) and TVSN (Australia’s shopping channel). STG Touchscreen Purses are available from Dierbergs and areaHallmark Stores.
Prevent Damage and Loss
STG began after the founder, Tami Lange’s two daughters destroyed both their phones in the same week. Worse, her sister-in-law used her bra as a cellphone carrier even though she had breast cancer! Lange decided it was time to find a better way for women to store and use cell phones with the smartphone fully functional. Thus, the STG touchscreen purse was born complete with its founders’ higher purpose included.
There are many features and benefits available to users with Save The Girls which of course contribute to the financial success. Some of these are:
- Convenience: keep from losing, dropping, or cracking a smartphone,
- Functionality: the phone is always close by,
- Versatility: The Clip-n-Go strap can be made into a crossbody or worn traditionally.
- It also can convert into a wristlet.
- The phone card can be removed, and the strap worn with other bigger bags also,
- Can wear to places that don’t allow regular handbags,
- Extra zipper pocket pouch allows for credit cards, change, keys, and other items to be stored.
About Save The Girls
Save The Girls manufactures and sells purses with smartphone pockets that make those devices accessible and fully functional without taking them out of the purse. Most importantly, women could use their smartphones and tablets without placing those devices against themselves. Since its founding Lange’s company has donated 10% of profits to Breast Cancer Research.
CAPTION: After surviving the rigors female owned start-up businesses endure and the Covid-19 pandemic that closed over 2,000 retail outlets, touch screen purse innovator and manufacturer Save the Girls (STG) of Belleville, Illinois achieved sales of more than $3 million annually for a 52% growth rate in 2023.
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Buy Something…This Holiday Season Is The Time to Support All Female Owned Businesses
The best way to show encouragement of supporting female owned businesses is to buy something from a business owned by a woman. Tami Lange, Save The Girls owner and founder, who is a first-time entrepreneur, has weathered the challenges of the global pandemic by finding outlets to sell products. Without those sales, she would have closed. She knows the importance of each purchase, so while the prescription of ‘buy something’ may sound overly simple it is the thing that so many businesses need now more than ever.
Advice for women business owners to support each other are well intentioned but not always as helpful as they might be. Suggestions like work with other women entrepreneurs to create a positive environment, sponsor a women’s conference, or attend a workshop are fine during normal times. But in a stretch when business revenue is down, people need to make a more meaningful and concrete impact and the best way is to make a purchase. “Lots of women have very unique challenges to their business,” Lange said. “Whether it’s enough internet bandwidth while working from home, child and/or elder care, or schools closed,the female in the business world has a steep hill to climb. Buying something from a business that is owned by a woman will help relieve a little financial stress so she can weather the other storms in her life.”
Lange is a one-woman testament to the power of flexibility, improvisation and the courage to act when things are going badly. Lange invented a touchscreen purse for women to store and operate their smart phones without having to remove them from the purse. Duringthe global outbreak her business shrank by more than 95%. The retail outlets where the clever, fashionable and useful purses were sold were all closed. No one would have found fault with her had she just quit. But anyone who thought that Tami Lange would walk away from her once thriving enterprise had another thing coming.
Lange quickly found new opportunities and available channels to market and promote the Touch Screen Purse. The accessible conduit to new customers was online sales and television the avenue for promotion. Her web site could accommodate more sales without any major change. Television features with ‘America’s Got Talent’ judge, Howie Mandel, followed by another on ‘The View’ provided enough revenue for her initiative to remain viable. She sold over 14,000 of her touchscreen purses right after a feature on ‘Good Morning America’ (GMA). The sales from these televised features drove enough commerce for Lange to not only stay in business but expand to other lines for women that were as attractive as they were needed and useful.
She added full facial scarves, face shields, and bucket hats to help provide protection from airborne hazards and make a positive fashion statement. All are available via the Save The Girls web site, https://savethegirls.
com/ and at many of the retail outlets where Save The Girls Touchscreen Purses are sold. 
About Save The Girls
Save the Girls is a female owned business that manufactures and sells uniquely designed touchscreen purses which allows purchasers to use their cell phones to text, answer calls and utilize other smartphone functions through their purse. The Soft Solution Scarf and nowthe full-face protective mask and headwear are the newest offerings from Save The Girls. They are perfect for any woman in the age ofthe Coronavirus/Covid-19 pandemic.
