Does Your Store Environment Attract the Customer Today?
Have you figured out how your store environment can capture the customer today and give you an advantage over anyone else in your trading area. There are obvious facts about the customer interaction today outside of your walls: 52% off of all American age 12 and up have a social media network. 90% say they […]
Quick-Fire Marketing – Bedding Is Booming
Ignite your marketing with mattress dedicated advertising and online traffic to drive sales Bedding is Booming: As expected, bedding and mattresses continue to be a very strong category among retailers. It’s also a sure-fire category to leverage some old-school media to help drive results. Utilize newspaper ads and circulation distribution via the newspaper to help […]
Don’t Aim for Consistency, Aim for Cohesion in Social Media
Don’t Aim for Consistency, Aim for Cohesion One of social media’s best qualities is content: creating it, sharing it and engaging with it. Quality content will inspire, inform, educate or even entertain your customers (and if you’re really lucky, it does all four!). So if you’re looking to engage with your customers to keep them […]
Relational vs. Transactional Advertising
So, I’m sure you have heard of relational advertising and transactional advertising, but have you really thought what is best for you, the retailer? Deciphering the difference is the first in many steps to figuring out to grow your business through advertising. Let’s examine both types of advertising a little more closely. Relational advertising deals […]
Stray
She was aloof. She was afraid. Yet she was needy. She showed up at our front door with a bloated belly and a pitiful, “Meow.” This stray cat soon treated us to five little kittens born in our back yard. We cared for them from the day they were born, then found homes for all of them. except one. We kept one kitten who has grown into an very ungrateful cat.
Reassurance
Ms. Jones comes to your store with a problem. She’s looking forward to solving it, but she knows it comes with a price. She’s investing time, money and the next dozen years of living with your solution. How do you reassure her that she’s made the right choice?
What’s Your Story?
John Rash, a reporter and author of the “Rash Report” for Advertising Age, is an acclaimed media analyst. In his most recent article he is commenting on the ups and downs of Nielsen ratings for the network super powers, which shows are performing, which shows are not performing, and other various media gossip. Normally I disregard these articles but there was something about this particular article that caught my eye