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3 Mistakes Retailers Make in Marketing and How to Fix Them

Recently while delivering a retail workshop I was approached with concerns around what retailers should be focusing on – marketing wise.   After helping her, it made me think about how much our customers have changed both sociologically and psychologically. And how little we’ve adapted our messaging to reach them.   Sure we have lots of…

5 Steps to create more in-store experience, experiential retailing, customer experience

5 Steps to Create More In-Store Experience

In-store Experience is BIG news these days When I started researching in-store experience many years ago, I set up a Google Alert for ‘experiential retailing‘ and ‘in-store experience’, those alerts have remained mostly silent until, well…this year really.   Now, it ‘sounds-off’ like my Facebook notifications, ALL-DAY-LONG.     Direction to Create More In-Store Experience But, while…

How Retailers Quickly Adapt to Globalisation of Market

How Retailers Can Quickly Adapt To The Globalisation of Their Market

  Let’s face it, there are a lot of challenges facing retailers today but a couple big issues are the globalisation of their market and the proliferation of digital. While these two elements are heavily interconnected and come with their own set of problems for retailers. Globalisation, of course, has created a huge increase in competition…

Experiential Retailing Part 1

Experiential Retailing – Part One

What is Experiential Retailing? How can Experiential Retailing help our store? In its simplest form, experiential retailing is an experience given freely by a retailer to create value for their customer. It may be educational, technological, emotional, fun, entertainment or it may just involve them trying/experiencing a product. However, like everything, just because it’s “experiential”,…