What Is Your Retail Leverage Factor?
- Mar
- 13
- Posted by admin
- Posted in Blog, By Steve Marzio, Educational, Retail Leverage Factor
The 5 Components Of The Retail Leverage Factor:
1. Overall Size of Business of Vendor to Retailer
2. Growth Categories of Participation with the Retailer:
3. Innovation Level of Company
4. Margin Dollars and Rate Given to Retailer
5. Consignment or Other Retailer-Incented Sell Through Incentives
More Margin More Retail Problems?
- Jan
- 30
- Posted by admin
- Posted in "How To" Get Leverage, Blog, By Ben Smith, Educational, Strategies To Offer Retailers Financial Growth
By Benjamin Smith Hand It Over! A retailer asking for more margin? Not shocking – or ridiculous. It’s a free country – you can decide if you want to offer more, or stare them down. Unless they have no respect for you or your brand, in most cases, when they ask for more margin they […]
read moreRetail Leverage – An Agency Executive’s Perspective
- Jan
- 24
- Posted by admin
- Posted in Blog, By Vincent Young, Interviews
By Vincent Young The battle for power at retail often provides very black and white perspective to those on the brand side, or the retailer side. Let’s face it – we both think the other needs us more than we need them – unless of course you are a challenger brand, in which case you […]
read moreHow To Maxx Out Retail er Leverage (With Unwilling Help From Apple’s IPAD)
- Nov
- 19
- Posted by Ben Smith
- Posted in "How To" Get Leverage, Blog, Brand Case Studies, By Ben Smith, Can't Be Ignored, Hot Product, marketing, Offer Exclusivity, Pent-Up Demand, What Is Retail Leverage
I don’t care whether you are a retailer or a brand marketer, I just know that at some point on Friday November 19, 2010 you wished you had the same idea that some genius(es) at TJ Maxx did.
read moreAll Hail the Kings of Retail Leverage – Monster Cable
- Oct
- 25
- Posted by admin
- Posted in Blog, Brand Case Studies, By Vincent Young, Can't Be Ignored, Hot Product, Why You Need Leverage
The strategy is nothing short of genius – find a high-demand, high dollar consumer electronic product category and profit by selling the low-cost, high-margin accessories that complement the device and make it actually work.
read moreShelf potato alert – Microsoft Kin mobile phone
- Jul
- 22
- Posted by Ben Smith
- Posted in Blog, Brand Case Studies, By Ben Smith, marketing, Syndicated Article, The Shelf Potato
This article appears courtesy of The Shelf Potato Blog, by Doug Garnett. The article was originally published on July 1, 2010, by Ben Smith.
If you saw the commercials or talked to a rep in store, you probably couldn’t figure out what problems Kin solved or unmet needs it satisfied. The fact that it was pulled from the market so soon by a company with so deep of pockets leaves only a few conclusions and bigger questions.
read moreWhat Is A Shelf Potato?
- Jul
- 20
- Posted by Ben Smith
- Posted in Blog, By Ben Smith, Educational, Syndicated Article, The Shelf Potato
By Ben Smith The term “Couch Potato” has made it into pop culture, with its own wikipedia listing. So when my friend Doug Garnett mentioned a concept he kept coming back to when describing dud products at retail, “Shelf Potatos”, I knew exactly what he was talking about, and I figure that anybody who is […]
read moreMartha Stewart Called To Carpet For Benefiting From A Legal Trade
- Jul
- 11
- Posted by Ben Smith
- Posted in Blog, Brand Case Studies, By Ben Smith, Examples of Leverage, Home Depot, Lowes, Offer Exclusivity
I wanted to provide an update to Vince Young’s prior coverage of Stainmaster carpet’s move to Lowe’s and share an article by Chris Burritt that just appeared in Business Week detailing how the dust has settled. The net is that Martha Stewart now has the featured brand of carpet at the #1 carpet retailer in the US, Home Depot.
In today’s environment it is rare that a brand drops a major retailer. Once the shock wears off, you can see how major moves by competitors, particularly exclusive deals, can create retail leverage opportunities.
read moreForget Perfection – Just Worry About Good Enough
- Jun
- 28
- Posted by Ben Smith
- Posted in Blog, By Ben Smith, Challenger Brand Strategies, Educational, marketing
By Ben Smith So I thought I had come up with this revelation, but apparently I’m not the only one. The good news is that as you read this you’ll likely realize you’ve had the same thoughts too. Type A personalities might want to stop reading now. We are in the age of “Good Enough”. […]
read moreSharp Quattron TV’s Add Yellow But Their Marketing Makes Me Blue
- Jun
- 08
You might think that the big players have seemingly unlimited funds that allow them to execute plans that cover the marketing spectrum, but that doesn’t mean their spend makes sense.
What would you do if you were Sharp? Do you think you can win by driving customers to the stores alone? Or do you win by converting customers that are already in the store by locking down the aisle? How did Sharp get to their strategy?
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