Category: customer-engagement
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Alessi: The secrets within your business
What we can all learn from my experience with the remarkable Alessi brand… “Identify the amazing secrets and stories within your business. Be proud and communicate your brand with clarity & simplicity.’”
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House of Hackney: Inspirational Pinterest gallery
in accessories, branding & visual communication, customer experience, customer service, customer-engagement, disruptive retail, ethical retailing, home, in-store services, internationalisation, location strategy, luxury, Pinterest Gallery, product suppliers, retail, retail businesses, retail management, retail organisations, retail strategy, shop of the future, store experience, store layout, store theatre, sustainability, telling product stories, visual merchandisingIn a Victorian townhouse in London Fields, Frieda Gormley and Javvy M Royle first dreamed up home furnishings & furniture brand House of Hackney. Today, the team has grown to a family of artists, designers, producers and collaborators. The brand now sells across the globe, with a showroom in New York and partner retailers worldwide.…
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Nobody’s Child: Everyone’s favourite sustainable partner – Pinterest gallery
in customer service, customer-engagement, disruptive retail, ethical retailing, fashion accessories, ladies fashion, meaning in the retail madness, new retail, omni-channel retailing, Pinterest Gallery, product suppliers, recycling, retail, retail businesses, retail management, retail strategy, social savvy, supply-chains, sustainability, telling product storiesNobody’s Child is a responsible brand on a mission to bring beautiful fashion to every woman, everywhere without costing the Earth. They are passionate about lower impact fabrics. As the say ‘They have spent the last eight years running away from materialism!’ they believe strongly in the power of collaboration, working with NGOs and industry…
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Gymshark: Stronger & fitter Pinterest gallery
in branding & visual communication, customer experience, customer service, customer-engagement, disruptive retail, food & drink, health & beauty, in-store services, leisure & sport, location strategy, new retail, omni-channel retailing, Pinterest Gallery, retail, retail businesses, retail management, retail strategy, sales promotions & events, shop of the future, social savvy, store experience, store layout, store theatre, visual merchandising, windowsThe lessons for us all: “Build your business from nothing by doing right things in the right order. Begin online, gain visibility via social media, get advocacy & exposure by going to where your customers go, begin physical with pop-up, and take it from there!” See the image board: Click below: RetailMeaning Pinterest: An inspirational showcase…
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Bike Shed Motorcycle Club: Revving up Community – Pinterest gallery
in accessories, assortment structure planning, branding & visual communication, customer experience, customer service, customer-engagement, disruptive retail, fashion accessories, food & drink, in-store services, internationalisation, leisure & sport, multi-category, packaging, Pinterest Gallery, pop-up stores, retail, retail organisations, retail strategy, social savvy, store experience, store theatre, telling product storiesIn November 2015, the Bike Shed motorcycle Club tentatively opened it’s doors on a 12,000 square foot venue across four renovated railway arches in the heart of it’s original home, Shoreditch, in Central London. The BSMC at 384 Old Street now features a 100 seat cafe and restaurant, with bike parking on a private street…
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Petit Pli: One giant Pinterest gallery
in assortment structure planning, customer experience, customer service, customer-engagement, disruptive retail, ethical retailing, fashion accessories, footwear, in-store services, internationalisation, kids fashion, ladies fashion, leisure & sport, multi-category, new retail, omni-channel retailing, packaging, Pinterest Gallery, product suppliers, retail, retail businesses, retail organisations, retail strategy, shop of the future, store experience, store theatre, supply-chains, sustainability, telling product stories, visual merchandisingFounded in 2017 by aeronautical engineer, Ryan Mario Yasin, Petit Pli invents and applies groundbreaking material technologies that solve problems for individuals, businesses and the planet across the textiles value chain. The entrepreneurs have been inspired by space since the beginning, and everything they create has to pass the Mars Test. “If you’re planning on…
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Gymshark: Stronger by the day
in branding & visual communication, customer experience, customer service, customer-engagement, disruptive retail, in-store services, leisure & sport, new retail, omni-channel retailing, retail, retail businesses, retail management, retail organisations, retail strategy, social savvy, store experience, store theatreThe lessons for us all: “Build your business from nothing by doing right things in the right order. Begin online, gain visibility via social media, get advocacy & exposure by going to where your customers go, begin physical with pop-up, and take it from there!” Gymshark was founded by school friends Ben Francis and Lewis…
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Strategise your Springtime to grow perennial brand loyalty and commercial success.
in assortment structure planning, branding & visual communication, customer experience, customer-engagement, impulse retailing, personalisation, retail, retail businesses, retail management, retail organisations, retail strategy, sales promotions & events, social savvy, store experience, store theatre, visual merchandisingSpring is such a fantastic time with its warmer weather and lighter evenings. It is also a great opportunity for retail businesses, full of seasonal events and celebrations. We have Valentine’s Day as the early flyer, followed by Easter, May Day, and the wider heralding in of Spring itself. And you don’t have to look…
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Has e-commerce become obsessed with ‘the art of selling’ whilst forgetting ‘the joy of giving’
in branding & visual communication, customer experience, customer service, customer-engagement, meaning in the retail madness, omni-channel retailing, packaging, personalisation, retail, retail businesses, retail management, retail organisations, retail strategy, social savvy, supply-chains, telling product storiesI am not the only customer to be continually disappointed and disgusted at the condition of some of the products that arrive on my doorstep. My latest experience involved the delivery of some not-inexpensive ladies coats, bought as a gift, from one of the largest online fashion specialists. A business whose strategy, up until now,…
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In a cynical 2024, follow your own advice and be your own best influencer!
The world of influencers and brand advocates is often viewed just as something born out of the mysterious new world of social media and pureplay retailing. And in the relatively short history of digital marketing, influencers have been shown to work dramatically well to increase customer visibility and commercial performance. Take the mercurial rise of…
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