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Member You - The Small Retailer's Survival Guide - Part 8 - The Highs and Lows of Refitting Your Store
Wristbands: An Event Planner's Best Friend
Whether you're planning an event for 100 or 10,000, wristbands are an invaluable tool in making sure your event runs smoothly. In fact, whether you choose Tyvek wristbands, paper wristbands, custom wristbands, plastic wristbands, or vinyl wristbands, simply using these simple identifiers can alleviate a number of potential problems during your event. The versatility of wristbands means that you can use them anytime you need a visual identifier. Here are some examples of the myriad of ways you can use wristbands: Age or height identifier: Wristbands can be used at venues to identify minors in order to prevent them from purchasing alcoholic beverages. They can also be used in amusement parks when there are height restrictions to certain rides. Tyvek wristbands have the advantage of being waterproof, and so can be used for water parks. Admissions: When you use wristbands, you can sell day passes for events or amusements. Guests will appreciate not having to fumble for tickets, and workers will save time by easily identifying those who have paid for a pass. If you are holding a conference that spans several days, you can use wristbands of a different color each day so that registrars can tell at a glance whether the attendee is registered for a given
w profit stock tends also to be low value and theft of these products is less expensive than losing high value goods, hence why they are near the entrance/exit. As well as finding waWhether you're planning an event for 100 or 10,000, wristbands are an invaluable tool in making sure your event runs smoothly. In fact, whether you choose Tyvek wristbands, paper wristbands, custom wristbands, plastic wristbands, or vinyl wristbands, simply using these simple identifiers can alleviate a number of potential problems during your event. The versatility of wristbands means that you can use them anytime you need a visual identifier. Here are some examples of the myriad of ways you can use wristbands: Age or height identifier: Wristbands can be used at venues to identify minors in order to prevent them from purchasing alcoholic beverages. They can also be used in amusement parks when there are height restrictions to certain rides. Tyvek wristbands have the advantage of being waterproof, and so can be used for water parks. Admissions: When you use wristbands, you can sell day passes for events or amusements. Guests will appreciate not having to fumble for tickets, and workers will save time by easily identifying those who have paid for a pass. If you are holding a conference that spans several days, you can use wristbands of a different color each day so that registrars can tell at a glance whether the attendee is registered for a given
Beware the Syndromes-Heading Off Workplace Injuries
Working on a computer for a large part of each day can be challenging, not just with reference to mental aspects but in dealing with physical ramifications as well. You can find yourself stuck in awkward positions for extended periods of time, often without realizing it until one of the dreaded “syndromes” surfaces.When facing the resulting injuries, there is more involved than personal discomfort. Productivity suffers as employees struggle through pain. Eventually sick time can be taken, and workers’ compensation claims may arise. The cost, both in time and dollars, affects the bottom line, so it is worth a look around your office to determine areas that need to be adjusted.Even making one change can have significant positive results. For each of the following syndromes, start by focusing on just one area that can provide significant impact as you evaluate your current habits and determine if changes could keep the syndromes at bay.Syndrome #1: Carpal TunnelOver the past years this has been spotlighted as one of the fastest growing injuries in the workplace. While it can occur from any type of repetitive-motion activity, the development of the computer keyboard led to a steep rise in its incidence.If you have decided to refit your store you may consider employing an independent consultant to advise you on the bet layouts an fixtures. A shop fitting consultant may plot the flow of customers around your store. One important factor is to try to marshal your customers past as many product
displays as possible and especially the higher margin lines. By strategically placing staple everyday (low margin) goods at certain intervals around the store, the customers will need to walk past higher profit goods. Many store owners are tempted to put these fast sellers near the entrance of the store as
this is near the checkout area and low stocks are easier to deal with. Perhaps more importantly for some store owners, the low profit stock tends also to be low value and theft of these products is less expensive than losing high value goods, hence why they are near the entrance/exit. As well as finding way
Working on a computer for a large part of each day can be challenging, not just with reference to mental aspects but in dealing with physical ramifications as well. You can find yourself stuck in awkward positions for extended periods of time, often without realizing it until one of the dreaded “syndromes” surfaces.When facing the resulting injuries, there is more involved than personal discomfort. Productivity suffers as employees struggle through pain. Eventually sick time can be taken, and workers’ compensation claims may arise. The cost, both in time and dollars, affects the bottom line, so it is worth a look around your office to determine areas that need to be adjusted.Even making one change can have significant positive results. For each of the following syndromes, start by focusing on just one area that can provide significant impact as you evaluate your current habits and determine if changes could keep the syndromes at bay.Syndrome #1: Carpal TunnelOver the past years this has been spotlighted as one of the fastest growing injuries in the workplace. While it can occur from any type of repetitive-motion activity, the development of the computer keyboard led to a steep rise in its incidence.
More on Wild Posting
Although it has been around for many centuries, “wild posting” is the current rage for product offerings and events that have a need for an “in-your-face” style of promotion. You have no doubt seen wild postings as you walked through an urban area where construction site barricades are plastered with the dozens or even hundreds of posters for a rock concert. Or, you might have seen hundreds of posters for the movie “Spiderman” displayed on the side of a building. Yes, that is wild posting.For hundreds of years posting signs along highways or on the side of buildings was a common way to advertise. Sometimes people opposed it; you might know the expression “post no bills” which was often seen on the side of buildings. I guess these posted signs were considered an early version of graffiti.Recently, this technique has been used for technology products such as cell phones and high speed internet services. AT&T posted banners for the “fastest internet in town for $14.99 a month” on an overpass in downtown Los Angeles. Microsoft used wild posting for its MSN “butterfly” by using a “static-cling” style poster, which was easily removed and did not harm the surface where it was posted.Mainstream companies are turning to wild posting because it is inexpensiv
of customers around your store. One important factor is to try to marshal your customers past as many product
displays as possible and especially the higher margin lines. By strategically placing staple everyday (low margin) goods at certain intervals around the store, the customers will need to walk past higher profit goods. Many store owners are tempted to put these fast sellers near the entrance of the store as
this is near the checkout area and low stocks are easier to deal with. Perhaps more importantly for some store owners, the low profit stock tends also to be low value and theft of these products is less expensive than losing high value goods, hence why they are near the entrance/exit. As well as finding waAlthough it has been around for many centuries, “wild posting” is the current rage for product offerings and events that have a need for an “in-your-face” style of promotion. You have no doubt seen wild postings as you walked through an urban area where construction site barricades are plastered with the dozens or even hundreds of posters for a rock concert. Or, you might have seen hundreds of posters for the movie “Spiderman” displayed on the side of a building. Yes, that is wild posting.For hundreds of years posting signs along highways or on the side of buildings was a common way to advertise. Sometimes people opposed it; you might know the expression “post no bills” which was often seen on the side of buildings. I guess these posted signs were considered an early version of graffiti.Recently, this technique has been used for technology products such as cell phones and high speed internet services. AT&T posted banners for the “fastest internet in town for $14.99 a month” on an overpass in downtown Los Angeles. Microsoft used wild posting for its MSN “butterfly” by using a “static-cling” style poster, which was easily removed and did not harm the surface where it was posted.Mainstream companies are turning to wild posting because it is inexpensiv
Are You an Entrepreneur or a Intrapreneur - From a South African Perspective
A number of people have realised the dream of owning and operating an independent business. These people continue to embark on one of the most exhilarating and one of the most frightening adventures ever known: launching a business. It is never easy, but it can be incredibly rewarding, both financially and emotionally.Who are these entrepreneurs, and what drives them to work so hard with no guarantee of success? What force lead them them to risk so much and to make so many sacrifices in an attempt to achieve a goal? Why are they willing to give up the security of a "steady pay cheque" working for someone else to become "the last person to be paid" in their own company.THE ENTREPRENEUR An entrepreneur is a person who creates a new business in the face of risk and uncertainty for the purpose of achieving profit and growth by identifying opportunities and assembling the necessary resources to capitalise on those opportunities.Starting and running your own business involves both management and entrepreneurship. When you develop a product, for example an electric rocking chair, you are initiating an innovative change and you are acting as an entrepreneur. However when you start producing this electric rocking chair, you begin
gically placing staple everyday (low margin) goods at certain intervals around the store, the customers will need to walk past higher profit goods. Many store owners are tempted to put these fast sellers near the entrance of the store as
this is near the checkout area and low stocks are easier to deal with. Perhaps more importantly for some store owners, the low profit stock tends also to be low value and theft of these products is less expensive than losing high value goods, hence why they are near the entrance/exit. As well as finding waA number of people have realised the dream of owning and operating an independent business. These people continue to embark on one of the most exhilarating and one of the most frightening adventures ever known: launching a business. It is never easy, but it can be incredibly rewarding, both financially and emotionally.Who are these entrepreneurs, and what drives them to work so hard with no guarantee of success? What force lead them them to risk so much and to make so many sacrifices in an attempt to achieve a goal? Why are they willing to give up the security of a "steady pay cheque" working for someone else to become "the last person to be paid" in their own company.THE ENTREPRENEUR An entrepreneur is a person who creates a new business in the face of risk and uncertainty for the purpose of achieving profit and growth by identifying opportunities and assembling the necessary resources to capitalise on those opportunities.Starting and running your own business involves both management and entrepreneurship. When you develop a product, for example an electric rocking chair, you are initiating an innovative change and you are acting as an entrepreneur. However when you start producing this electric rocking chair, you begin
Customer Feedback Management: Do Companies Want You to Leave Customer Feedback?
New companies are springing up everywhere. But how can their service be measured? Where would you go to find good or bad service?How effectively are customer complaints and issues that arise from trading being dealt with? Many companies have departments and call centres. But to many of us, the call centre can be the source of much frustration.If you've ever sat in one of these call queues, only to have some tired, bored individual attempt to wade their way through the ever increasing complexity of products and services offered by some of today’s online trading companies, you'll appreciate where I'm coming from. Many companies will farm out the most important interface between customer and supplier to an overseas company. Who records the issues that go unresolved and is anything ever done about them?What happens? We hang up (or get cut off) and the whole thing gets forgotten. You could even be forgiven for asking if some companies actually want to manage and act upon the feedback of their customers?I can't help but think that we may have done it to ourselves. Time is precious nowadays and there is too little of it to keep chopping and changing where we do business.If a company wanted to truly grow through satisfying its customers, m
ut these fast sellers near the entrance of the store as
this is near the checkout area and low stocks are easier to deal with. Perhaps more importantly for some store owners, the low profit stock tends also to be low value and theft of these products is less expensive than losing high value goods, hence why they are near the entrance/exit. As well as finding waNew companies are springing up everywhere. But how can their service be measured? Where would you go to find good or bad service?How effectively are customer complaints and issues that arise from trading being dealt with? Many companies have departments and call centres. But to many of us, the call centre can be the source of much frustration.If you've ever sat in one of these call queues, only to have some tired, bored individual attempt to wade their way through the ever increasing complexity of products and services offered by some of today’s online trading companies, you'll appreciate where I'm coming from. Many companies will farm out the most important interface between customer and supplier to an overseas company. Who records the issues that go unresolved and is anything ever done about them?What happens? We hang up (or get cut off) and the whole thing gets forgotten. You could even be forgiven for asking if some companies actually want to manage and act upon the feedback of their customers?I can't help but think that we may have done it to ourselves. Time is precious nowadays and there is too little of it to keep chopping and changing where we do business.If a company wanted to truly grow through satisfying its customers, m
Business Intelligence - For Proper Decision-Making
Business Intelligence consist of different methods and techniques that help a company to collect, evaluate and access the necessary business information for decision-making. Such systems exemplify the importance of business intelligence in various fields like market research and its segmentation, inventory management, product development and productivity and statistical analysis.Each and every business-intelligence program must have some specific goal whether short term or long term. It also increases your control over data and such decisions are applicable to all type of industries.The people using business intelligence processes utilize application software and different technologies. Software, which allow business firms to make decisions on right time at right costs are knows as business intelligence tools or software. Such tools examine and prepare data for use to make important decisions. Some of the business intelligence tools are data mining, AQL, EIS, OLAP, MIS and many more. Business Intelligence makes better relationships and boost production and supply. It follows both external and internal business techniques to improve competitiveness.It is also important to know that how business intelligence process works. The first thing you have to
w profit stock tends also to be low value and theft of these products is less expensive than losing high value goods, hence why they are near the entrance/exit. As well as finding ways to maximise sales and profit, a good consultant will know all the latest - and the more traditional - methods of reducing wastage through theft and will advise you accordingly. They will also crucially advise on how to have customers use the whole sales space rather than have dead areas where nobody ventures. I often see dead areas, even in large superstores where the normal sales per square foot requirement seems not to apply. Your sales area is an asset that must be made to work for you.Business Intelligence consist of different methods and techniques that help a company to collect, evaluate and access the necessary business information for decision-making. Such systems exemplify the importance of business intelligence in various fields like market research and its segmentation, inventory management, product development and productivity and statistical analysis.Each and every business-intelligence program must have some specific goal whether short term or long term. It also increases your control over data and such decisions are applicable to all type of industries.The people using business intelligence processes utilize application software and different technologies. Software, which allow business firms to make decisions on right time at right costs are knows as business intelligence tools or software. Such tools examine and prepare data for use to make important decisions. Some of the business intelligence tools are data mining, AQL, EIS, OLAP, MIS and many more. Business Intelligence makes better relationships and boost production and supply. It follows both external and internal business techniques to improve competitiveness.It is also important to know that how business intelligence process works. The first thing you have to
A good consultant can cost you a lot of money, but you may find that they add a considerable premium, not just to your sales, but more importantly to your profit. They may also prevent you falling into some of the many traps th
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