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Top Small Business Branded Merch Ideas in 2021

Strategy Driven

There are so many branded merchandise options to consider that it can be hard to narrow down what’s best for you. High-quality chocolate is always a treat, so it’s particularly useful for brands that want to highlight their commitment to luxury. Here are some ideas that are well worth considering. Tech Accessories.

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7 Growth strategies to improve your bottom line

Strategy Driven

Ensure some or the other form of data or commitment from the visitors so that better campaigns can be channelled to them again. Credit terms are simply the time limits businesses set for the customers to pay for their merchandise or services received. Tighten Credit terms.

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Planning an epic launch of your product- 7 steps to get it right

Strategy Driven

In the era of technology, it is pivotal to create a social media presence to reach out and circulate the message to the masses. Achieving goals in a specified duration and finally executing the plan with committed marketing strategies buys you customers that equate to company success and growth.

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If Retailers Want to Compete with Amazon, They Should Use Their Tax Savings to Raise Wages

Harvard Business Review

In 2017, according to Fung Global Retail and Technology, there were nearly 7,000 store closing announcements , the second-largest number since 2000. Operational excellence makes that possible by ensuring that merchandise is in stock and well displayed, checkout is efficient, stores are clean, and employees are responsive to customers.

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How the Internet Saved Handmade Goods

Harvard Business Review

Some old technologies, after being rendered obsolete by better and cheaper alternatives (indeed even after whole industries based on them have been decimated), manage to “re-emerge” to the point that they sustain healthy businesses. Who are these makers if not the revivers of dying or, in some cases, long extinct technologies?

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Do Customers Even Care about Your Core Competence?

Harvard Business Review

Who doubts Microsoft’s technical core competencies in software, networking and gaming technologies? JC Penney and its failed CEO Ron Johnson had many admirable and effective core retailing and merchandising core competencies. The same is equally and painfully true of Nokia and Blackberry, as well.

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5 Questions That Will Help You Stay Ahead of Your Disruptors

Harvard Business Review

But more strategic responses identify the essential ensembles of people, processes, and technologies that provide the most valuable — and valued — user experience (UX) for customers and clients. Bottom line: Does management commit to ROUXE — Return on User Experience Enhancement — metrics to help run the business?

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