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Lesson #2: Prioritize Your Customer
“There is only one boss,” said Walton. “The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.”
Sam Walton Quotes
Sam Walton Quotes
Attraction Marketing - How To Make Buyers Come To You
In the traditional sales world, the process that a salesperson would use to sell their product or service would be to make cold calls or go door-to-door, informing people about what they are selling and hoping to generate leads that would end in a sale. The difference with attraction marketing, which more and more is used in the place of this traditional sales process, is that a marketer finds out what attracts clients and uses this information to make them come to you. This is far more beneficial and a more pleasant shopping experience for everyone involved. There is no pressure for the buyer. Instead they are buying things that they want to. The key to making this all work is to figure out in the first place what it is that the client will be attracted to.

Palms Shopping Mall, Changing Retail Distribution in Nigeria
South Africa owned, Nigerian managed 'The Palms Shopping Mall' launched in 2005 is a major contributor to changing retail distribution and ultimately the retail experience for Nigerians, particularly the growing middle class to affluent. The Mall's opening provided significant channels of distribution to allow manufacturers reach buyers who are ready and able to spend.

Loyalty Programs
In these trying times for retailers, customers are increasingly shopping based on rewards or loyalty programs. It's no longer enough to have good prices, retailers must make the shopping experience special, and the customer has to feel unique and loved. Carefully designed loyalty programs can maintain sales even in tough times by rewarding repeat customers with special pricing, benefits, and more.
You are nothing without Credibility as an Internet Marketer
Who do you listen to and believe? How does somebody earn your respect and trust? At what stage will you find them so credible that you will take their advice?
How Copying Canadian Tire Can Help Grow Your Small Business Big Time
Canadian Tire CEO Stephen Wetmore is growing his “smart stores” Some store sales have grown between six and eight per cent, and some departments have more than doubled. You can grow your retail business by copying some of his proven ideas. Here’s how:
Pricing strategies
Price is always important, and perhaps even more so during a downturn. How should retailers adjust their pricing to get and keep customers?
Survey shows Internet users prefer PR to ads
In my previous article, I wrote that public relations may be better positioned than advertising to weather the current storm of major newspapers in financial trouble some of which are going completely digital. An interesting survey was released recently, which not only seems to support this point, but provides an interesting perspective into the reading habits of young people. "Ragan’s PR News Daily" noted an ARAnet poll based on polling by Opinion Research Corporation, showing that Internet users prefer PR over advertising.

The Power of Gift Cards
Gift certificates and gift cards have been a part of the retail landscape for years, but many retailers don't use them to their full potential, including taking advantage of the technological innovations that make them more powerful.
Packaging… Real Brand Value!
Help for small businesses explaining the importance of a cohesive marketing strategy

Customer Service for the Independent Retailer
Good customer service is the difference between a flourishing store with happy customers and one that is empty and forgotten. Here is a summary of what it means to go up against the big box guys and how you can still compete with them by using the age old advice, as well as a few new tips perhaps you didn't know.

Hot Selling Products on eBay: Earn Money Online Selling
eBay has been the choice for many who want to earn money online selling. It's relatively easy to start up; all you need is a product. It seems that one can find virtually anything on eBay. But as a small business owner you don't want to sell just anything to earn money online, you want products that are going bring in the greatest amount of profits. Below are two examples of hot selling products on ebay.
11 Ways Fill Your Shopper's Cart
Since the “purchase” is the ultimate conversion, it is imperative that you remove as many obstacles from the customer's research-to-buy cycle as possible. Providing your visitors the key ingredients in their shopping experience creates a smooth and worry-free transaction process. The easier it is to shop and buy the more customers will overcome the natural hesitations that many feel before they commit by hitting the final "complete order" button.

Garber on Business: Selling online? Help your potential customers shop online safely
Good deals, convenience and choices abound on the Internet. But before customers use all the Internet has to offer, help them be cyber-smart and make their online experience safe. When shopping online, there are several things you can do to add to your shopping safety. Being aware of technology scams, checking website policies and understanding your credit card rights will go a long way toward providing privacy and identity protection.

Taking Networking to a Different Level
Creating charity events for increased exposure, free publicity, and giving back to your community.
8 Items Every Shopper Needs In Their Shopping Cart
Customers who, by all means, appear to be ready to make a purchase, are often found abandoning their shopping carts before they complete their online transaction. In many cases this is part of the normal online shopping experience as the shopping cart is just used as a place to collect items of interest but which the user has no real intent to purchase. But all too often it is a failure of the shopping cart page itself that leads visitors to abandon their items which they do, in fact, wish to have.
6 Ways to Get Your Visitors To Contact You From Your Contact Us Page
Along with the About Us page, your Contact Us page is one of the most important and crucial pages on your site to get right. In fact, the Contact Us page could be considered the absolutely most important page. Even if the rest of your site succeeds in the goals, if visitors fail to find the information they need to contact you then you will bring their shopping experience to a screeching halt. Shoppers are often hampered if they don't feel they can get a hold of a real person or are limited in their contact options. With all other areas of the site working, a bad contact us page may cause someone to think twice about purchasing with you altogether.

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8 Items Every Shopper Needs In Their Shopping Cart
Customers who, by all means, appear to be ready to make a purchase, are often found abandoning their shopping carts before they complete their online transaction. In many cases this is part of the normal online shopping experience as the shopping cart is just used as a place to collect items of interest but which the user has no real intent to purchase. But all too often it is a failure of the shopping cart page itself that leads visitors to abandon their items which they do, in fact, wish to have.
Garber on Business: Selling online? Help your potential customers shop online safely
Good deals, convenience and choices abound on the Internet. But before customers use all the Internet has to offer, help them be cyber-smart and make their online experience safe. When shopping online, there are several things you can do to add to your shopping safety. Being aware of technology scams, checking website policies and understanding your credit card rights will go a long way toward providing privacy and identity protection.

"Fingering the Goods"
"Fingering the goods" was a 1950's merchant expression for "shopping in a store." Except for the Sears Roebuck catalog, store shopping was about the only means for acquiring merchandise. On-line shopping does not let you "finger the goods." In-store service can give you an experience that can take your breath away.

Loyalty Programs
In these trying times for retailers, customers are increasingly shopping based on rewards or loyalty programs. It's no longer enough to have good prices, retailers must make the shopping experience special, and the customer has to feel unique and loved. Carefully designed loyalty programs can maintain sales even in tough times by rewarding repeat customers with special pricing, benefits, and more.
Home-based Business Idea: Personal Shopping Service
Starting a home-based business doing shopping for other people should start as part-time. Depending on the market and your progress, you may opt for more time spending at the shopping malls to choose an item of specific description from your clients. If the profits are impressive, you can make personal shopping as full-time career.
Who is My Shopping Genie?
Have you ever wished that you could have numerous options to buy anything at the lowest price all the time? While the question is not "who" but "what" is My Shopping Genie. My Shopping Genie is "an innovative online shopping App that instantly finds the best deals and lowest prices on millions of products."

You Are Here
As a blind person myself, I am always intrigued with the way that sighted people get or fail to get from point A to point B. It is fascinating to me that people who can see perfectly spend a great deal of their time being lost. Recently, I made one of my rare trips to a giant shopping mall. As usual, I was listening to all the conversations going on around me. I discovered that most people spend a great deal of effort during their shopping experience trying to figure out where they are in relation to where they wish they were.

Boots, High Heels, Tennies, or Sandals? Come Watch the People Zoo
When was the last time you went to the zoo? The shopping mall can be JUST as adventurous! As interesting as all the animals are, my daughter, when three, told me while we were sitting on a shopping mall bench "This is as fun as the animal zoo, Mama". People have been watching people since the beginning of time. Why would someone pierce their tongue and eyebrow and wear hiking boots in the middle of shopping? Why wear striped shorts with a plaid shirt with sandals and socks? Why can you hear that one person laughing way above the noise of the entire mall and find them in high heels and "lookin' good babe"? And then there's those who have their cozy sweat pants on and "tennies". Who are these people and what makes them tick? With all the 22 companies out there with personality profiles, I have found after 30 years of sales experience
Engagement, Customer Experience Drive Loyalty
Which stores do a great job of creating loyalty? How do engagement and experience play into that? These are questions I found myself asking as I went on a hastily planned shopping experience to the “local” upscale mall.
How to Distinguish Better Shopping Cart Software
With the rise of eCommerce, shopping cart software also ascends in the online industry. It is no doubt that having shopping cart software makes the online shopping a comfortable and delightful experience both for the buyer and seller.

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