Posts Tagged ‘retail’

Retailing is one of the hardest hit industries in today’s recession. However, retailing plays an important role as one of the driving factors in economic recovery.

Whether you start your retail store off line, online, or both, you need to have a long list of products for sale, as retailing strength is in product variants.

However, the costs related to off line retailing are very high, these days. Today, the key word in retailing is bootstrap.

Probably the best way…

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I’m literally thinking to put on a loudspeaker and shout some selling words to passer-by to get them enter my retail store, using the F-word.

Don’t misunderstand me – what I meant is FREE offers.

Getting customer these days is darn hard! If the F-word fails, I can probably just try to wash every customer cars free of charge to get them enter my store :)

Closing in to this year holiday season, things don’t really getting better.

You could…

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Traffic is king for both online and offline retail stores.

Traffic – location, location, location.

OK – point well taken. Location is perhaps the most important factor, but you cannot deny that there are other ways to generate more traffic to your store – particularly if your store’s location is unexpectedly not that promising somehow, and relocation seems too distant in your mind.

Relocation is expensive and nobody can guarantee a relocation shall do your store better.

So, what will…

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