How to Boost Your Retail Sales After the New Year

This article provides great ideas to boost sales in a typically slow time for retailers. Are you doing anything to boost your sales this January? “Plenty of people will be heading into stores in January to exchange unwanted items, cash in gift cards or spend gifted money. With the right approach and some advance planning, you can…

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11 WAYS TO ATTRACT SHOOTERS IN THE SLOW MONTHS | The Range Report

We think this NSSF article is quite helpful for the Firearms industry, providing tips to generate additional traffic flow throughout the year. Here’s a tidbit from the article: Every business experiences slumps and slow times related to the calendar, season and weather, as well as the busy lifestyles of today’s consumers. Your shooting range is…

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How Big Is Christmas For Retail? – Forbes

Do you agree with the findings in this article? How is your retail business affected by the season? Christmas is big, no doubt about it. How big depends on what type of retail. Highest honors for big holiday volume goes to sporting goods, electronics, and clothing, but general merchandise and non-store retailers (like Amazon) are…

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The Shopping Decision Tree

The Shopping Decision Tree | MIT Technology Review. In Lieu of the upcoming holiday shopping season, we found this infographic from MIT Tech. showing their findings on how shopping decisions are made. An interesting look into how technology plays a role into how shoppers are making their purchases. Brick and mortar stores are still the preferred…

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