The National Retail Federation reports that today there are some 3,793,621 retail establishments in the United States, and nearly 99% count as small businesses with less than 50 employees. Unlike the 1% big retailers at the top, the 99%ers don’t have legions of MBA’s to guide their businesses, and few have dedicated marketing, merchandising or […]
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Laying the Foundation for a Profitable Flooring Business Make Your Flooring Shop POP! A shop that POPs! is one that creates an extraordinary customer experience that includes not just extraordinary products, but extraordinary displays that attract customer curiosity, in-store service that builds customer involvement and prices that offer the greatest value to the customer. Shops […]
The Secret of Story-Based Retailing
In the new experience economy, the very idea of what a store is has changed. It’s transformed from a place for people to buy things into a place where people engage in shopping experiences of discovery and delight where product is the reward they take home. Under this new retail experientially-focused model, the old “product […]
How to Be Successful Retailing in the Experience Economy: Lessons from Apple
For the latest and greatest in personal technology, everybody looks to Apple. They lead the pack in creating innovative, user-friendly computing products. And the company takes the same innovative, forward-looking approach to retail. Yet people think of Apple as a product-first technology company, when in fact it is a hybrid that seamlessly combines products and […]
How to Make Word-of-Mouth Marketing Work
In every survey Unity Marketing conducts with retailers on their marketing and advertising methods, word of mouth is hands down the most important, being both most used and most effective. For example, in a recent survey among furniture retailers, over 80% of furniture retailers named word-of-mouth their most powerful marketing tool. By contrast social-media marketing, […]