Thursday, February 16, 2017

What is Right vs What is Popular

Here's a classic story of bureaucracy and populism getting in the way of what is right.


It also touches on the topic of photo-degrading, where a light source will break down the item into ever decreasing smaller sizes eventually becoming invisible to the naked eye.



Friday, February 10, 2017

What? Divot Repair by Bag People


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Thursday, February 2, 2017

Wine Shop Success - excellent ROI

Here's a story from 2010.

Each year we apply this method to a number of retailers and each one makes a great RIO (return on investment), plus getting better customer loyalty.

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:: Scenario ::
The local wine shop had been in the same location for 35 years and had been run by the same family for 30 years.

They had been part of the community since buying the business and had always supported the local school, charities and junior sporting events.

Customers would come in for the great advice and friendly service.

However, as time
 and progress moved forward, business began to dwindle, a big factor was the massive chain store supermarket that opened in the next suburb.

The new store has a discount liquor chain attached to it
 and has heaps of exposure to passing customers as well as catching all the people visiting the supermarket.

The sheer volume of the chain means they can offer great pricing on most of their stock, but the selection is a bit limited 
and the staff are nowhere near as knowledgeable as at the wine shop.

:: We need a Plan ::
The wine shop owners knew that something needed to be done, so as part of their new marketing push they called a number of marketing and 
promotion companies to find out what was available and how they could get back some of their lost customers.

Together with the marketing company the wine shop owners formulated a multi-staged plan to get customers coming back
 and to keep them coming back.

:: It’s Our Shout ::
After a few weeks of ideas
 and concepts the campaign was called “It’s Our Shout”.

This campaign centred around the wine shop being the experts
 and that although they had all the technical knowledge about what “should” be good customers needed to come and try for themselves simply because every taste is different.

:: The Action ::
The campaign basically centred around tasting before buying
 and had 3 main objectives – getting new customers, keeping existing ones and getting them to come back.

The owners selected 3 main tools to accomplish each objective.
1) invitation to existing (database) customers
 and also advertising in the local newspaper.
2) offering specials and a loyalty program to those customers that bought something
3) giving a Bag People wine bag to each customer with an incentive to reuse it

:: The Result = 12% new customers and repeat customer ::
As soon as the campaign started, customers began to come back to the shop. Most customers were returning, but there was a good slice of new customers also.

The owners were very pleased with the initial result, but the best result from the campaign was totally un-measurable word-of-mouth.

The biggest upside of the whole campaign was the fact that customers were talking about the shop again
 and with that revived exposure, business began to grow.

:: 6 Bottle Wine Bag ::
The owners selected a
6 bottle wine bag as their selected give-away to customer retention.

As the name suggests, this is a Bag People bag made specifically to carry 6 bottles of wine.

This wine bag tied in to the
“Its Our Shout” campaign by custom printing ‘this one’s on the house’ on one of the bottle compartments.

As an added incentive to get people coming back to buy their wine, the shop would offer a free bottle of wine for people who came back with their bag
 and bought 5 full priced bottle – of course their was fine print with this offer “our shout is your choice of any bottle valued up to the retail price of your cheapest bottle you’re buying”.

:: Loyal Customers ::
The wine shop ordered
2,000 x 6 bottle wine bags from Bag People
 and gave them all out in 10 weeks and they’re still coming back.

Contact Bag People for more information.