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Category Archives: Guest blog
The Importance and Challenges of Integrated Communication
This week’s blog post was contributed by Hannah Tulley, a recent Retail Buying graduate from De Montfort University. In June Hannah is starting her career as a Garment Technologist for a UK based fashion supplier. As part of her contract … Continue reading
“It’s Easier to Keep a Customer than Find a New One” – A Guest Blog From Von Bismark
What does it take to keep your customers? Sales campaigns launched at existing customers can have success rates as high as 65-70%, while potential customers have just a 5% pick up rate. When you think about it, this makes perfect … Continue reading
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Tagged customer retention, Customer Service, keepin customers happy
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Cognitive Chrysanthemums: How Greenery Can Boost Retail Performance
There is an on-going debate in regards to the effects of greenery on our cognitive functions. Many aim to highlight the effects it has on the environment, its necessity in built-up urban areas where we increasingly live in a greyscale … Continue reading
Interview with Cath Kidston
You may have heard about the exciting news regarding our latest client to join us, Cath Kidston. We are thrilled about this, particularly some of the females in the office. We have a number of Cath Kidston fans here alongside … Continue reading
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Guest Blog: How Multi touch Technology is Improving the Retail Experience
Touchscreen technology may not be brand new. In fact, early touch screens were used over 30 years ago! Nowadays, any one of us with a smartphone or tablet will know what can be done on a small screen at the … Continue reading
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Tagged Customer Service, Fashion, Food, IT, Loyalty, PoS, Retail, Retail Technology, Sales, Stores
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Guest Blog: How Technology Can Lead to In-store Fulfilment Success for Multichannel Retailers
By Michael Koploy, Software Advice In order to better serve customers, a number of multichannel merchants have begun to augment their warehouse and distribution centres by fulfilling online orders from the inventory of retail outlets. By doing so, these merchants … Continue reading
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Tagged E-commerce, IT, Retail, Retail Technology, RFID, Warehouse
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Guest Blog: My Retail Assist Work Placement
My name is Sawan Patel, I’m currently 18 years old and from Leicester. I attend the Peter Jones Enterprise Academy at Solihull College in Birmingham. This is a unique Level 3 BTEC Course (in enterprise and entrepreneurship). As a student … Continue reading
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Tagged Clients, High Street, Marketing, Retail Assist, Sales, Social media
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Guest Blog: The Importance of Local Trading
By Louise Tillotson Now more than ever, local businesses and their customers need to work together to help tackle the nation’s deficit at a local, actionable level. Although grass-roots activity may seem small in the context of global macroeconomics, it … Continue reading
Guest Blog: Top 5 Retailer FAQs on Mobile Payment
By Michael Koploy, Software Advice According to US research advisory Gartner, mobile payments may be the next big thing for retailers. The firm predicted 38 percent growth of mobile payment users in 2011, totaling 141 million. While this may seem like … Continue reading
Guest Blog: Retail and Cinema Chain IT Similarities and Differences
By Dave Wilson, Head of IT Operations at Vue Having previously worked within the IT departments of large retail businesses, I can say that there is not a huge difference between the IT discipline there and the one in my … Continue reading
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Tagged Cinema, Clients, Customer Service, IT, Market share, Promotions, Retail, Retail Technology, ROI, Sales, Spend, Support Centre
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