Perfect Your Fitting Room Setup

When you walk into a fitting room, it looks like a disaster, and that can ruin your entire shopping experience. Making sure your customers see the ideal fitting room can be a small detail but greatly impact their feelings around your brand, which could even lead to increased sales. Read more in this blog on Read More …

Understanding Consumer Behavior Can “Print You Money”

Understanding consumer behavior is like having your own money printer for your business. It might sound like an exaggeration, but when you truly grasp what drives your customers’ decisions, the impact on your sales and marketing can be transformative. In the ever-evolving world of commerce, knowing the why behind your customers’ actions is a game-changer. Read More …

Why Customer Feedback Matters in Retail

People are everything in a retail business, especially your customers. Getting customer feedback in this day and age is a crucial factor in making your store successful. In retail solutions, many business owners must pay more attention to what mainly serves their clientele. Read on for more on how Specialty Store Services can help you Read More …

How to Display Small Items as the Perfect Gifts for Customers

Never underestimate the value of small retail fixtures for increasing sales. As customers check out with their items, they’re often distracted by the display items around the registers. This is the perfect space to curate a small “gift shop” display, no matter what sector of retail you fall into. Use this guide to learn how Read More …

Tips for Preparing Your Store for the Spring Shopping Season

Spring shopping season is a great time for store owners to maximize their business efficiency and gain an edge over the competition. To accomplish this, our team at Specialty Store Services has compiled key tips that can help prepare any store in anticipation of customer demand — from optimizing inventory management processes to increasing marketing Read More …

Customer Service Ideas for Retail

Customer service is all about serving, helping, and/or assisting your customers (and potential customers) to purchase something from your business. When you offer great customer service, you can greatly increase the odds of selling more products and maintaining customer satisfaction at the same time. Further, great customer service can help to solidify customer loyalty, increase Read More …

How to Please Customers Determined to Find Fault with Your Retail Operation

The vast majority of consumers encounter new brands because they already have an interest in the products or services a company offers. In other words, they’re looking for you. Some may stumble across your retail location by accident, and others may be referred by trusted family members or friends, but most will find you when Read More …

Understanding the Customer Experience is Crucial to Retail Success

As a retailer, it’s not always easy to know what customers want or how to provide them with an overwhelmingly positive experience. Unfortunately, if you want to enjoy long-term success, you have to try and you have to hit the mark more often than not. This means finding ways to understand the customer experience, empathize Read More …

Why Your Business Needs to Embrace the Peak-End Rule

Think about a favorite movie. If asked, you might recall important plot points. At the very least, most people are likely to remember the climax, or peak moment of the film, along with the ending. Everyone recalls the scene in Jaws when the shark explodes into smithereens, followed by the twist on the classic movie Read More …

Prepare Your Store for 2018: How to Improve Customer Experience for Increased Retail Success!

Retail locations large and small have many opportunities to impress customers by improving the in-store experience. This, in turn, can lead to increased retail success. What changes can you make in 2018 (and beyond) to wow your customers and ensure a positive overall experience? Here are a few strategies for consideration. Cosmetic Fixes If your Read More …