Reading Time: 4 minutes How often do your customers leave your business without buying because your staff is ill-trained?
Tag: Retail
Reduce your customers’ risk to increase your sales
Reading Time: 3 minutes Building trust and consistency can improve your sales and increase your profits
Befriending self-checkouts seems inevitable
Reading Time: 3 minutes Consumers used to love to hate these machines. But things have changed
The rise of the once-silent, once-hidden food worker
Reading Time: 3 minutes Given our heightened consciousness about food systems, workers have more political capital than ever
Three key elements to succeed in sales
Reading Time: 3 minutes Treat others the way you would like to be treated, know why you’re selling and put together a good plan that you’re willing and able to follow
Turn your seasonal business into a year-round money-maker
Reading Time: 4 minutes Seasonal businesses can be derailed by weather, economy, technology, social changes or just down-right bad luck. It’s time to change your fortunes
October retail sales in Alberta end two-year slide
Reading Time: 2 minutes An increase of 0.4 per cent came after retail sales in the province had fallen below levels last reported in August 2017
Celebrate more this Christmas, worry less about business
Reading Time: 3 minutes This year, stop rushing through the holidays long enough to let your thoughts be diverted from the burdens of work to the joyfulness of the season
The dollar store invasion gains momentum
Reading Time: 4 minutes Dollar stores in Canada sold well over $2 billion worth of food last year. And given how aggressive dollar stores are, that could double quickly
Want to write a book and get published? Here’s what you need to know
Reading Time: 4 minutes Terry Whalin of Morgan James Publishing explains why the author is so important to the marketing process and why e-commerce alone won’t get the job done