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Will You Add? - Getting Ready for Easter
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It could be time to create an event.
Can you make an event out of your business. A fashion
parade, a local band, a local comedian, an author, sporting
personality, a character meet & greet. What can you do?
Other things to consider.
How about posters. If you are having a sale, let everyone know about
it. You want enough to cover your shop front and have plenty for in store decorations.
Have some advertisements. Your local papers offer
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So why not get in on the action?
Easter is not far away and you need to start planning now.
But what to do? We will look at a couple of ideas that you
might try this Easter, to boost your sales or improve
customer relationships.
A tried and tested method is to have an Easter sale.
An oldie but a goodie. Now is the time to go through you
figures and find out what sells and what does not. Maybe you
could use Easter to give your second or third best selling
item a little push. How about that old stock that you have
been hanging on to for too long? Here is an opportunity to
give a good discount and watch it walk out the door.
Remember to look closely at your margins for each product.
An 'across the store' 20% discount may just make your margin
very slim on certain products! You could have an 'up to 50%'
sale, where most products only have a 10-20% discount. You
can take 50% off those things that just will not sell
otherwise. Get rid of them and get product on the shelves
that will sell.
Something else could be a free giveaway with each purchase.
It can be a simple as giving everyone a small Easter egg.
The parents will love you, because it keeps the kids happy.
Maybe you have some old stock that you could give away? It
does not have to be expensive. It is the thought that counts.
How about a special gift for special clients?
If your business is one that has a small amount of customers
that buy large amounts from you, you need to look after
them. Make this Easter one they will remember you for. How far
you go is dependent on how much this client could be worth
to you during your business life. Wine, fine chocolates, a
free dinner at a nice restaurant, a massage, you know them,
so think hard about what they would like.
It could be time to create an event.
Can you make an event out of your business. A fashion
parade, a local band, a local comedian, an author, sporting
personality, a character meet & greet. What can you do?
Other things to consider.
How about posters. If you are having a sale, let everyone know about
it. You want enough to cover your shop front and have plenty for in store decorations.
Have some advertisements. Your local papers offer a
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Remember to look closely at your margins for each product.
An 'across the store' 20% discount may just make your margin
very slim on certain products! You could have an 'up to 50%'
sale, where most products only have a 10-20% discount. You
can take 50% off those things that just will not sell
otherwise. Get rid of them and get product on the shelves
that will sell.
Something else could be a free giveaway with each purchase.
It can be a simple as giving everyone a small Easter egg.
The parents will love you, because it keeps the kids happy.
Maybe you have some old stock that you could give away? It
does not have to be expensive. It is the thought that counts.
How about a special gift for special clients?
If your business is one that has a small amount of customers
that buy large amounts from you, you need to look after
them. Make this Easter one they will remember you for. How far
you go is dependent on how much this client could be worth
to you during your business life. Wine, fine chocolates, a
free dinner at a nice restaurant, a massage, you know them,
so think hard about what they would like.
It could be time to create an event.
Can you make an event out of your business. A fashion
parade, a local band, a local comedian, an author, sporting
personality, a character meet & greet. What can you do?
Other things to consider.
How about posters. If you are having a sale, let everyone know about
it. You want enough to cover your shop front and have plenty for in store decorations.
Have some advertisements. Your local papers offer
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Something else could be a free giveaway with each purchase.
It can be a simple as giving everyone a small Easter egg.
The parents will love you, because it keeps the kids happy.
Maybe you have some old stock that you could give away? It
does not have to be expensive. It is the thought that counts.
How about a special gift for special clients?
If your business is one that has a small amount of customers
that buy large amounts from you, you need to look after
them. Make this Easter one they will remember you for. How far
you go is dependent on how much this client could be worth
to you during your business life. Wine, fine chocolates, a
free dinner at a nice restaurant, a massage, you know them,
so think hard about what they would like.
It could be time to create an event.
Can you make an event out of your business. A fashion
parade, a local band, a local comedian, an author, sporting
personality, a character meet & greet. What can you do?
Other things to consider.
How about posters. If you are having a sale, let everyone know about
it. You want enough to cover your shop front and have plenty for in store decorations.
Have some advertisements. Your local papers offer
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How about a special gift for special clients?
If your business is one that has a small amount of customers
that buy large amounts from you, you need to look after
them. Make this Easter one they will remember you for. How far
you go is dependent on how much this client could be worth
to you during your business life. Wine, fine chocolates, a
free dinner at a nice restaurant, a massage, you know them,
so think hard about what they would like.
It could be time to create an event.
Can you make an event out of your business. A fashion
parade, a local band, a local comedian, an author, sporting
personality, a character meet & greet. What can you do?
Other things to consider.
How about posters. If you are having a sale, let everyone know about
it. You want enough to cover your shop front and have plenty for in store decorations.
Have some advertisements. Your local papers offer
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It could be time to create an event.
Can you make an event out of your business. A fashion
parade, a local band, a local comedian, an author, sporting
personality, a character meet & greet. What can you do?
Other things to consider.
How about posters. If you are having a sale, let everyone know about
it. You want enough to cover your shop front and have plenty for in store decorations.
Have some advertisements. Your local papers offer a direct route to your local customers. Two weeks of advertisements prior to
the sale should help get the interest up.
Get some flyers. Get the local kids earning some money delivering
flyers to households.
Local paper editorial. The same papers may be interested in your story,
but you have to have an angle. Everyone has a sale. What
will make yours different? Do you have a limited product?
Are you giving away something with each purchase? Will your
staff sing a song on the hour? Use your imagination.
Your sale could have a limited time. Make sure you let everyone know that this sale
is for the Easter holidays only. You could even limit it to
one day. Limiting the time, makes it seem more attractive.
Time to run a competition? Can you run a competition with your sale? How
about getting customers to fill in a form to enter? That way
you also get their mail and email addresses which allows you
to market directly with the people who buy from you.
How about a group offer? Can you offer products or services to groups?
Get large local businesses to buy a lot and give them a
great discount.
Look at your web site. Do you have a web site? Can you run your sale
online at the same time? Someone on the other side of the
world may be just as interested in your sale.
A children's character. Do you get a lot of children in your shop? Why
not have an Easter Bunny pay a visit? You could run a meet
and greet at certain times. If the kids know about it,
they will want to be there.
Have a look at the checklist.
Buy in extra stock, or sort out what you have and make a
list of sale items.
Organise printing (posters, flyers, competition forms, etc)
Flyers need to go out in the week before the sale.
Get your local papers press happening early. Remember they
work ahead a few weeks at least.
Organise extra staff for the sale.
Train your staff for the sale.
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