Published by Pearson Business (January 30, 2017) © 2017
Richard HammondSmart Retail reveals what the most successful retailers in the world know and how you can apply their secrets to your own business. Fully revised and updated, this new edition includes the latest success stories, new ideas and strategic and tactical thinking to help grow your sales.
Based on one simple question, which Richard Hammond posed to the world’s leading retailers: ‘What makes you so good?’, Smart Retail shows you how to use some of the best winning ideas, strategies and tactical thinking.
- Discover the secrets of great retailing
- Boost sales with practical advice from the best retailers in the world
- Learn how to delight customers and keep them coming back for more
Covering everything from creating the ultimate retail experience to understanding your customer and the importance of a motivated team, this is the book that will equip managers, ambitious team-workers, retail entrepreneurs and indeed anybody who sells direct to customers, with practical winning ideas and strategies.
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- Introduction – it’s all change in retail and yet…
- 1. The Big Idea: what are you even here for?
- 2. Simplicity: your job is to make it easy for people to spend money
- 3. Inspiration: make me want it
- 4. Location Agnosticism: putting the store everywhere and anywhere it’s relevant
- 5. Mind States: targeted purchase or retail therapy?
- 6. How to build great teams
- 7. How to get people out of bed
- 8. All we need is a little better every time
- 9 We love shopping here!
- 10 Price and value
- 11 Promote or die
- 12 Marketing for real people
- 13 Discovery
- 14 The great big theatre of shop
- 15 Detail, detail, detail - the store environment
- 16 And finally...how we got here
- Epilogue - and we're done?