Keep Up With Your In-store Marketing


by Kaye Z. Marks - Date: 2008-11-03 - Word Count: 457 Share This!

A very important and effective form of marketing is the in-store marketing. This extends to everything within your store that will encourage people to buy something. Whether this is using color printing to put up some banners directly advertising a product, or specifically positioning certain end caps to best display a new product, it is all designed to get people interesting in buying.

The question is how do you really know something is working? Think about it. You might have a product displayed on an end cap, but is it on the right end cap to produce the best sales? Are those banners you used color printing to make the right shade to best draw the eye?

A good store is going to be constantly changing its products for new seasons, new specials, and that means end caps will change and banners will change. This also means you have to be constantly considering what will best keep people's attention.

Many stores simply place something on an end cap without considering whether that particular end cap is the best one for that product. In order to really know the only thing you can do is stay on top of your research and always be paying attention to how well each product does in relation to where it's located and what kind of advertising you're using.

This isn't an easy thing to manage, and can be a lot of work if you aren't properly set up to notice shopping trends.

The good news is that once you have your network of information started, it becomes a lot easier to maintain it, and you can help improve all of your in store marketing based on the data you gain.

The first thing you need to do is make a database of all of the in store promotional material you plan on doing. From there you make another list detailing the sales of all of those same products. At the end of each week compare the results.

From there you can see how well a specific product did and how much advertising you gave it. If something isn't reaching the sales level you want it to figure out exactly what went wrong. Try changing it to a different aisle or different end cap and see what the results are.

Eventually you'll be able to accumulate enough data to know more about what products work well in certain parts of the store and what products are best advertised in what format.

The longer you maintain a system like this the easier it will become to keep it going and the more benefits you'll get out of your in store marketing. Doing the needed research for your marketing and color printing isn't always easy, but it is most certainly always needed.


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Kaye Z. Marks is an avid writer and follower of developments in the color printing industry and how these improvements can benefit small to medium-scale businesses.

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