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Store Closings Have More Than Tripled
The doom and gloom of the retail industry continues as store closings tripled this year. Below is an article by Chris Isidore that ran in CNNMoney. “Stores are closing at alarming rate. The number so far this year is triple what it was in the same period...
Hot Dog Vendor’s Approach To Store Closing
Losing Your Business There’s an old story about losing your business in the advertising business. It is about a man who ran a hot dog stand. He did really well selling his hot dogs. One day, a customer mentioned, while adding mustard to his hot dog, that...
Retail Business vs Hobby
Do you have a retail business vs hobby situation? Times have never been tougher for the small retailer. For most, sales are down, customers are buying less, everyone wants a discount and expenses keep growing. According to all the “experts” things really...
Email Marketing vs Social Media
When it comes to marketing, email marketing often takes a back seat to social media marketing. Yet, according to Lorraine Ball, owner of Indianapolis-based digital marketing agency Roundpeg, this tool is more powerful than you might imagine. “None of the...
Business Liquidation Sale
“All Sales are Final” is a common and expected practice when it comes to a Business Liquidation Sale, Store Closing or Going Out of Business Sales. But yet there are always those customers that think they the exception. You need to address these customers...
Marketing Retirement Sales
Email Marketing Retirement Sales & Store Closing Sales continues to be a key media in advertising for a Store Closing or Retirement sale. Posted on May 13, 2017 by Chuck Haug How to Improve your marketing retirement sales email response rate: The...
Retailers Financial Problems
Often Retailers Financial Problems will cause a drain on cash flow. Your business debt must be reduced, eliminated or restructured. This will make your business more manageable therefore reduce drain on cash flow. Every business, large and small, can run...
“2017” Year of Retail Store Closures
Will 2017 go down in history as the year of retail store closures? Most of us are wondering what has happened to “Retail”. What the long term effect of all of the “Store Closing” and “Going Out of Business” sales is going to be. I've attached a great...
Retail Business Failures
Do you know why in the United States there are so many retail business failures? "In the United States alone, on average 1 retailer failed every 12 minutes. Five failures per hour, 24 hours per day, 365 days per year. " That's the findings of The Retail...
Create Effective Direct Mail Postcards!
For promoting store closing sales direct Mail postcards have proven to be an effective media. PostcardMania covers the 10 elements your design absolutely must have to maximize your return on your going out of business sale: Promoting Store Closing Sales!...