Category: brave-words
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1st Joy of a Retail Spring – Understanding customer behaviour
1st Joy of a Retail Spring – Understanding Customer Behaviour Make it your new year’s resolution to understand how your customer behaves inside your stores. In many ways having got them into your store you’ve done the hard part, and everything they do, and everything they buy now, is a bonus that cannot be ignored.…
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“The joys of a retail Spring!” – Essential Retail Insights
And now 2017 is well & truly upon us. We bring to you…”The Joys of a retail Spring” A timely and seasonal summary of retail know-how, a dozen essential insights to sow the seeds of success in the year ahead. Coming soon… Week-by-week over the coming months, we’ll bring to you a dozen of…
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Retail analysis: The Usual Suspects – Personalisation & Patterns
It’s very easy for a retailer to go chasing in circles attempting to catch the evasive scraps of essential new data, insights and analysis blown into a constant ferment by the prevailing winds of new information. Throw into this cyclone complex omni-channel data, progressively pervasive loyalty programme insights, beacons pursuing the personalisation profile of every…
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“10 ways to make more money…No.9 Add Value! Be Special!”
Come and listen to Tim Radley speaking at the Retail Design Expo 2016 Olympia, London Thursday, March 10th 2016, 16:00 – 16:40: Location: VM Workshop Not just for VM… but absolutely for buyers, merchandisers, store operations, CEOs, commercial teams and anyone with a stake-holding in store commercial success. No. 9 ““Add value! Be special!” …
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Sales = Traffic x Conversion: The Complexities of a Simple Equation
Knowledge of traffic and conversion is essential to measure and maximise sales opportunities across stores, however the knowledge of traffic and conversion by category display within the store reveals the mysteries of the shopping experience and promises the riches of increased sales productivity for every gondola, wall and precious retail square metre. What retail…
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Retail Integration: store layout with the customer experience
Planning your store layout for maximum profit illustrates yet again the importance of integration within a retail business, the bringing together of the commercial and the emotional, the marriage of the beauty and the beast. On the one hand the store needs to be functional and based on sound commercial strategy and decision making whilst…
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Why do retailers use consultants?
In many areas of our everyday lives we seek the expertise of others to keep ourselves healthy, to maximize our investments, to make us beautiful and attractive and to find the best holidays and leisure destinations. Whilst we acknowledge some degree of personal knowledge in these areas the value of the “consultant” is that…
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“The Wonder of Workshops!”
For maximum benefit ensure the retail workshops you receive are… 1. Personalised through pre-visits and discussions 2. Relevant through individual research by experts 3. Interactive between presenter and audience and within the audience itself 4. Concluded with feedback, recommendations and priority action plans Many of us will remember the “wonder of workshops” in…