A quick and fantastic guide to making profit
Bob Gorton’s book Boosting Sales (Bloomsbury, £9.99) available on Amazon, gives the owner of every business a lasting insight into the simple rules that will help you make more money than you are…
Clicks vs Bricks
The day before Christmas we smashed my wife’s treasured Emma Bridgewater butter dish. While the lid with its memorable message ‘Don’t let the cat get the butter’ survived, my daughter and I determined…
Palmer & Harvey invest in the future of retail
We visited the Pro Retail 2012 launch party to get a glimpse of some of the exciting things planned for this years convention
Get caught for doing something good.
The best retailers always get caught trying to find the best deal for their shoppers.
3,500 local facebook pages
“How we interact at a local level is really important to us, and that’s why we’ve launched these local Facebook pages,” Stephen Quinn, chief marketing officer of Wal-Mart US, tells Fortune magazine. Mr…
Start it up – Energise your business
“Business is a fantastic technique for someone from a modest background, with minimal education, to improve their life and get ahead”, says Luke Johnson in his book Start It Up. His publishers describe…
Two questions for retail success
Take control of your margins and gaps in the market and watch your business grow
Bricks and mortar vs Online?
How good is your store at making an emotional and visual connection with local shoppers? How much better than a web site are you?
Half the products on my shelves are making money…
95 per cent of net revenues are generated by 60 per cent of SKUs. Is cutting the number of SKU’s a good idea?
