Day #127 – Turning Customers Into Your Sales Force

  • Posted: May 31, 2012  by Barbara   -  
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I love this approach and teach: Turning customers into your sales force.  Read on …… “The most effective sales team you’ll ever find is enthusiastic customers. The reason is simple enough: Customers aren’t paid to praise. When a customer becomes a passionate believer in your brand, it means you truly

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Day #126 – Kids Health Gift Challenge

  • Posted: May 16, 2012  by Barbara   -  
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  The Canadian gift industry has just launched the Kids Health Gift Challenge, a fundraising campaign to raise money for the SickKid’s foundation.  They have set up a page for Retail News with a fundraising goal of $500. Retailmakeover is putting   their  support behind this great cause : Click here

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Day #125 – Take A Hike Receives Business Excellence Award

  • Posted: May 7, 2012  by Barbara   -  
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Please join me in congratulating one of our own: Retailer Diane Petryna, owner of Take a Hike in Thunder Bay Take A Hike Receives Business Excellence Award Medium (7-25 Employees) THUNDER BAY, ONTARIO – May 6, 2012 – Nine years after having won the Thunder Bay Chamber of Commerce’s Business

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Day #124 – Strange Weather

  • Posted: May 4, 2012  by Barbara   -  
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Strange weather is playing havoc with retailers’ plans. Here is a great article about weather and the effects on retail. “Retailers are at war with the weather” Already reeling from the winter that wasn’t, many stores in Canada now find themselves struggling to match their inventory to the spring that

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