You know the feeling. You’ve built your business and a great reputation, but it feels like you’ve peaked. Not only does this turn running your own shop, store or service into same-thing-every-day kind of drag, but it limits your profits. Raising prices is never popular with customers, but with the costs of gas – and Read More …
I was up in Milwaukee Wisconsin to visit a friend and I went into a great boutique called Goldi’s. It was a woman’s clothing/shoe/gift store. The thing I liked about the store was that it was merchandised in a way that really created an image.
Gumball Machines have a way of sweetening things up at your store and can be a big addition to your store, and profits. Vending candy is a great way to produce extra profit and bring more customers into your store. From our best selling fruity gumballs, to the super sour tearjerkers gum, gumballs are kids Read More …
There are some things that all retailers, no matter what their size, should have. There are the obvious things like cash registers and open signs, racks to display product and security systems to monitor customers and staff alike. But who would think of a shrink wrap system as a necessity for retailers? Shrink wrap systems Read More …
Restore valuable CD-ROMs, DVDs, or Game Discs. It’s easy and well worth the effort! Most people think that when a Compact Disc or DVDs gets scratched, it is ruined forever. This could not be further from the truth. Scratches on the surface of your discs can create problems, but most can be repaired. The way Read More …
Originally posted at Specialty Store Services Bag Hook Mounts on wall with a single screw and holds most size bags. On 8/14/2007, from Beattyville, KY, Seller of Purple said Gadget that makes life simpler! 5out of 5 Pros: Sturdy Best Uses: Large Stores, Display, Retail Stores, Small Stores Describe Yourself: Value Oriented, Quality Oriented Read More …
We have enabled a tool on our website that allows our customers to post product reviews. As you can see with the previous post it lets customers communicate with other customer and hopefully make the shopping experience at the www.specialtystoreservices.com website more enjoyable. How do you post a review? Go to the product you have Read More …
One of the articles I wrote has been picked up and published by another website. The site is www.salesopedia.com, “The World of Sales from A to Z”. Click here to see my article. The title of the article is “Leveraging Employees to Increase Retail Store Sales”. This article is about how the retail store owner Read More …
How do you get customers to come back to your store? That is a question that even the big retailers and even Specialty Store Services encounters all the time. Is it service? Is it the price of the product? Is it the product line itself? You can get the customers into you store with a Read More …
Editorial Comments: This is the transcript of an online video we produced this last week. We will be producing more over the next couple of months and hope to make it a regular feature on our website. Click here for a link to the video. Welcome to “Retailers’ Roundtable.” I am your host Eric Read More …