3 Retail Breakthrough Hacks to Increase Profits


Retail expert, Salena Knight from Australia, joins the The Next 100 Days Podcast to share some highly useful marketing hacks. You don't need to be a retailer, but if you are then this podcast will truly help the marketing of your retail business.



 

Salena was a fascinating guest. Here she is on the actual recording. Looking stunning. And what a lovely smile! (One of us had just admitted he couldn't spell her forename - it's NOT Selena, it's SALENA!).


Salena Knight
Salena has a decade of experience. She has helped her own retail business grow and helped hundreds of others to grow too. But she started life as an Arborist, or tree surgeon to you and me. She got the job of dealing with angry customers. With trees, people either love you or 'want to stab you in the eyes with a fork'. She got more of the latter. With that background, she became expert at explaining things to these customer.

Back in 2008, Salena opened her own retail store focusing on sustainable children's products. As a new parent, she didn't have a family or friends who were pregnant. She decided to create a store with a community feel. A welcoming place. She baked in authenticity, her clients loved it.

After a while, she outgrew her stores. She didn't know what to do if she didn't have a job. It was a wake up call. She sold the stores.

One of her suppliers suggested she write a book about opening a retail store. The book became a course. It was about how to. The course was the beginning of where she is now. She now works with all kinds of retail businesses throughout the world, online and bricks and mortar.

She seeks out the different. Then changes up the marketing for her clients.
I'm not a coach
She's a bossy boots! Salena realised she was providing real value. Her mentor suggested she had a lot of knowledge people want to access. If she didn't share that knowledge for a fee, she was denying people an opportunity for growth.

Salena works with people for 12 months. After 6 months, a lightbulb goes on. It's then people realise her guidance (she's not a coach) really does make sense. She helps people do things differently, tweaking stuff, to make more money.

Salena advises you not to rely on FREE stuff. You need stock and marketing budget to realise your big goals. People start businesses but fail to have enough money for marketing. In the first couple of years of a start up, 80% of your time should be focused on marketing.
Retail is changing, you better change too
90% of transactions are still made in a physical store. Doesn't mean your store will grow without much better marketing. This is where Salena hacks retail marketing.

Hacks are when you get into systems to make something better. Salena is lazy (don't believe it) she uses SAAS solutions to get stuff done.
Here are Salena's Retail Breakthroughs
#1 You Need an ONLINE presence
Have a website with your opening hours, what you have in your stores. Have pictures of your staff. Allow people to feel part of your store's experience. Salena helps people with low or no cost hacks to alter your marketing activity in your store.
#2 Make Sure You CUSTOMISE Descriptions
It is super easy to scope the information from the manufacturers website and drop it onto your own website. Yes, do that. BUT, take time to pull out the top 100 products and get your staff to customise those descriptions.

In her own store, they marketed a fluffy penguin. Called Pete. He ended up being placed around the store, in different places. So their description had "Pete's very mischievous, your may find him turning up in different places. And yes, he's 10 cm tall, but when your child spills peanut better all over him, don't worry Pete comes up fantastic after a wash". That skyrocket them on Google, but allowed them to charge more for the product. They'd sell loads of Pete. Others described him factually. Dispassionately.

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