Do you find it time consuming to keep track of all your sales reps.? Carol Schroeder, a store owner and author, recently wrote an article about keeping track of sales reps.
Did you know that your Bridge has a built in feature to help you contact your sales reps? Just browse to the brand for which you wish to contact your sales rep. and look to the right. You'll see the rep.'s website link.
As of January 15, 2015, Facebook is going to show fewer of your posts to your friends, reports retail specialist Carol Schroeder. "...customers are not going to see what you post unless you pay," says Ms. Schroeder.
Chalkboard, a social network for retail businesses, is the anti-Facebook: Chalkboard doesn't show you ads, it doesn't winnow who sees your posts, and it's not 're-marketing' your website visitor data so that your competitors can steal your customers. Read full article by Carol ...
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February 11, 2014
February 11, 2014
Carol Schroeder wrote this neat article below about how to price items.
The article reports that services like FeedVisor automatically change your Amazon.com prices, and services like Savored, from Groupon, let restaurants offer a percentage off a meal if the diner comes in at a certian hour.
Maybe a retailer can mimick this and offer a disount when shopping between 2 pm - 4 pm?
"Positive people power is fundamental to overall success of any business." This simple message is at the core of the book, Hug Your Customers, by Jack Mitchell -- a work that is now celebrating its 10th anniversary, but contains ideas for customer service that are timeless. Jack Mitchell and family own the most successful independent retail stores in the country, Mitchells of Westport. He fosters a culture of
August 8, 2011 If you feature products on your website, you know that it can take a lot of time to keep the photos and information current. The Bridge is an innovative approach to solving this problem for retailers, connecting brands, shopkeepers and customers online by "stocking...
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