Merchandising |
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| 2012 |  18 Retailing Tips: Dealing with Toy & Game Trends
Keeping up with toy and game trends is essential to many specialty retailers, but knowing when to bring a toy in - or ditch it - can be difficult... 8/1/2012 |
|  18 Tips on Creating Killer Retail Window Displays
Visual Merchandising is something many retailers feel challenged by. What to put in the store window? What to put with it? How much merchandise should be in the window? These are great questions to ask yourself. After all, your window is your brand... 7/1/2012 | |  7 Tips to Make Retail Displays Work For You
There are a lot of ways in which displays can be a silent salesperson. The trick is to keep in mind these seven basic, yet essential, tips... 5/1/2012 | |  Tips for Dealing With Merchandise That Won't Sell
Think of your inventory like you would fresh milk. Unless you look at it, you end up with spoiled, stained and unsellable merch... 3/1/2012 | |  5 Signs Your Store Needs a Makeover
When you opened your business however many years ago, everything was fresh, but that once shiny layer of paint is now faded, the shelves are chipped, and the merch isn’t looking too good...... 2/1/2012 | | |
| 2011 |  Avoid Redundancy in Your Toy Store
For a retailer, redundancy is costly – that’s your money sitting there! How many redundant products do you have on your shelf?... 3/1/2011 |
|  How to Make Your Store Special
While sex appeal may seem out of place in a toy store, most paying customers and staff are adults and are at least subliminally aware of some sort of attraction.... 2/1/2011 | | |
| 2010 |  How to Organize Your Workspace
We often get questions about personal work areas: “What is the best way to organize a desk space, bookshelves, and my whole office? What special gadgets or tools can help me organize the work most efficiently?... 12/1/2010 |
|  Design a Buying Space, Part II: Be Buyer Friendly
Though you may want to cram your store full of wonderful products and ingenious displays, Tom Moseman of Envirosell, Inc. — a company that videotapes shoppers to see what they buy or avoid and why — said customers want to be able to find a product quickly and be on their way... 10/1/2010 | |  How to Start a Toy Store, Part II: The Right Toys
If you're opening a toy store, you probably love toys, and so you might assume that choosing the right ones for your store would be easy... 9/1/2010 | |  Retailing Tips: What Matters in Merchandising
Thirty-eight specialty toy retailers across the nation were asked about the best merchandising tip they’ve ever received, or an approach that’s been the golden ticket for their store. Let customers play, they told TDmonthly, and don’t be afraid to shake things up... 4/1/2010 | | |
| 2009 |  Retailing Tips: Stock That Won’t Move
Ideally, your store has the perfect balance of merchandise that flows in and out the door at just the right time according to customers’ wishes.... 1/1/2009 |
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| 2007 |  How to Thrive With Dolls
“Since 2000, the collectible market has gone soft,” North American Director Beau James of Corolle recently told TDmonthly Magazine.... 8/1/2007 |
|  Retailing Tips: Pricing for Profit
In a Toy Fair Session sponsored by the Toy Industry Association, Nick Morolda ... offered nine tips on how to build and support a successful toy store... 3/1/2007 | | |
| 2006 |  Keeping High-End Doll Sales High-Spirited
What’s the difference between those retailers who fail and those who succeed?... 7/1/2006 |
|  When Does Humor Drive Customers Away?
Novelty retailers in particular need to know which controversial products mean high sales and which could draw protest signs.... 5/1/2006 |
