August 2021

cross merchandising

Cross merchandising – how to get it right

A little while ago I posted about secondary locations: placing your product in an additional location (incremental to the home shelf) to drive incremental purchase. The post generated a lot of feedback about cross merchandising and a number of questions about how to decide when and what to cross merchandise. In this post I’ll discuss […]

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retail sales presentation

Seven ways your sales presentations frustrate your retail customer

Wherever you work in consumer goods, you know how important the retailer is to your success. Whether you are in marketing, sales, shopper marketing or trade marketing or category: progress and results will be limited without support from our retail partners. We need their support: but when I speak with retailers I hear similar frustrations

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