Marketing Doesn\'t Stop at the Front Door

written by: Katie Marcus; article published: year 2008, month 07;



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There’s the tendency to view marketing as something that is meant to get people into your store. This is why you send out all of your marketing material talking about great sales and new product launches: you want people to get into your store.

But once they are in your store what else are you doing to market to them? I can say from personal experience that I have a habit of buying more than what I had originally intended to buy when I walked into a store.

This is the product of effective in-store marketing. I remember reading articles around Christmas one year talking about department stores specifically lowering their prices on toys, as well as heavily promoting their lowered prices, in order to get people into the store. Sometimes they’d even sell the toys for a price so low they’d take a hit on them, because the point was to get people into the doors so their other marketing push could start.

Once people are shopping they’ll be inclined to focus on all the in-store marketing encouraging them to buy other things, so what money was lost on the toys could be made up with the additional sales in other areas.

If you aren’t doing it already, this is what your store needs to focus on. There are a variety of ways to make in-store marketing work for you.

Label printing is a great first step towards this approach. Custom labels can be designed to do more than just tell a person what an item costs. Make them flashy enough that people are going to be inclined to look over at them. Think about the tactics you would use with a poster to make it eye-catching and apply this to your labels.

The same goes for things like end-caps and the placement of products on shelves. There’s a reason why small, cheaper items like candy and magazines are located by the registers. Those are the stores that did the needed research to know that people are more likely to buy things like this as impulse buys while checking out.

The same goes for where products are on the shelves at the store, along with what makes for the best kinds of end-caps.

If you really know the mechanics of in-store marketing, along with what appeals most to people, you can greatly increase your sales. Even something as small as an investment in high quality label printing alone can be a great means of boosting sales on products people don’t think as much about buying.

Your job deals with more than just getting people in the door. If that’s all you attempt to do with your marketing you’re missing out on some prime opportunities. Do your research, and start generating those sales.

Katie Marcus writes about the label printing technologies used by business for their marketing and advertising campaigns. Log on to http://www.printplace.com/printing/uncoated-label-printing.aspx for more information about this topic.

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