One shop is concerned with slumping sales, saying that the mom trade groups on Facebook are causing her shop to lose sales.
Yet there is nothing
on her Facebook page or her web site motivating folks to shop with her rather thanwith some stranger in a parking lot. If her assessment of the battle facing her is true, wouldn’t she be wise to gather some ammo and fight back? She could post, often and charmingly, of
all the advantages her shop has over stranger-dealing…
from A (we’re air-conditioned, shop in comfort!) to Z (Zounds! This shop has ah-mazzzing selection, you’ll be able to choose the perfect item rather than settling for less!)
Another shopkeeper complains that “people don’t know I’m here”…
yet there is nothing
to make the eye of a motorist or pedestrian glom onto her store front. The store’s just one in a row of identical frontage.
Grab their attention, stand out!
Would a large silk tree that she could wheel out onto the pavement every morning make people notice? Or vinyl lettering on the glass, or a bright and well-lit display changed every week?
A third resaler says “they just want sales and deals before they’ll buy.”
And yet,
he doesn’t take advantage of his software’s ability to add a line on every tag with the original retail value of that armchair or dresser that will underline the values inherent in his merchandise.
Nor does he add value with some personalized signage, the kind you’d only see in a real-life, bricks-&-mortar, shop-local type of situation.
Fight back! Don’t stand there and take it… better to stand out from the crowd!
