To kick off our new vlog series we featured a 3 part mini-series entitled, "How to Tackle Strategic Planning: Learn the Why, the How, and the What", where we chatted with Right Hand Business Coach about strategy and the many wonderful, but sometimes challenging aspects of developing strategies.
9 Points To Strategize Before Starting Your Open to Buy
Forecasting your Open To Buy for the entire year can be a daunting task even for the most seasoned fashion brands and retailers. A little pre-planning and deliberation will make this process as seamless as possible and ensure increased profitability and sales throughout the year. Here are 9 aspects of your OTB that you want to strategize before you start your annual forecasts.
Retail Predictions
5 Resolutions For Your Business's Best Year
Creating New Year’s resolutions for your business is a simple way to identify a few additional goals you want to achieve and with some strategy and commitment can have big impacts on your business in 2018. Here are five New Year’s resolutions that will be key game changers in the retail industry for the upcoming year and that you can commit to instantly.
2017: Thankful
The One Thing You Absolutely Must Do Before The New Year
Retail Rundown: Holiday Edition
Last Minute Holiday Advertising & Marketing Strategies
The official retail holiday countdown is here and there is still time for a few quick last minute initiatives that you can begin implementing today to keep your customer hungry for more. Focus on creating engaging advertising and refreshed merchandising strategies, making it fun and simple to shop for exactly what your customers still need to finish up their holiday lists.
Retail Recap: Thanksgiving Weekend Winners, Outlook, & Next Steps
The annual shopping frenzy of Thanksgiving weekend has quickly come and gone but there is much we can learn about the current state of retail. This week’s Insights will examine a few of the big trends from Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday and what that means to you during the month of December. We’ve also put together our “25 Days of Retail” calendar to keep you on task and maximize every opportunity.
Strategies to Compete with Amazon, Walmart, & Target this Holiday Season
For much of the retail world the thought of competing with Amazon, Walmart, and Target can seem overwhelming and for a small, independent retailer it can seem straight up impossible. As unbelievable as it may seem, there are strategies that you can use to compete with the Big 3 and level out the playing field. Try putting these into action and see how you can stand out and drive more holiday sales.