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Friday, May 2, 2008

Point Of Sale Display

Point of sale services mean advertisement services that an agency offers at
various points of sale like: shops, retail stores, restaurants, hotels, motels,
inns and casinos. This may refer to any kind of an establishment that deals in
retailing or even wholesaling. It may also be a counter of a shopping outlet or
other areas or points of sale or purchase.


These services are also offered by advertising agencies who seek to promote
their client by putting up stickers that have a logo or a sign of their company.
This also includes a message that has to be communicated to the audience. These
stickers or labels have a huge branding capability as they carry a message and
are concise. Moreover they can be easily lifted and used for a future reference
by the customers gathered at a single point of sale. They are small yet handy
and convenient at times. Woblers are used by stationery companies, companies
selling chocolates and candies and other things of beauty and value.


These woblers and labels contain graphic signage that is intended to promote
your company through information about an upcoming sale or an upcoming brand.
They can contain special and attractive offers, discounts, scratch and win
cards, etc. Thus point of sale techniques and tactics are a beautiful way to
convey the message to the customer and get imprinted in the mind of a potential
consumer. In order to be clear and lucid in the eyes of a new customer a new
brand has to be effective in its introductory offer and it becomes critical for
the brand to present its message clearly to the customers so that they decipher
the role and the product segment of the company without any qualms of
complexities.

Signarama can tailor the needs of a client and offer the best possible solution
to them for their marketing and branding needs. It also deals with traffic sign
posts and directional pots that are presented in a lucid manner so as to be
clearly decipherable. Traffic signs, direction tellers, illuminated signposts
are the top priorities on the lists of services demanded.


Table top advertising display and pop stands are also available in the
plethora of services offered by Signarama. Point of sale hotels and restaurants
use the table top advertising. Illuminated window signs add ambience to the
restaurant or hotel in hand and also present a great medium to showcase your
brand like an atrium. This offers instant brand recognition and patronization.
Interior hotel signs and graphics apart from table top display graphics are a
part of point of sale advertising display strategy. These bare a youthful,
attractive and a sinful resemblance and are used in casinos and bars.


Ted Turner is experienced brand development strategist using Toronto Signs
like Graphic Design - Storefront and Retail Signage -

Exhibits and Displays
- Promotional Signage - Interior Signage -

Point of Sale - POS
Materials to build brand awareness

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Monday, March 10, 2008

Your Marketing - From The Couch To The Cash Register

When you put time or money into any marketing plan, your only objective is to MAKE A SALE. Are you sure your marketing is going to get your customer from their couch to your cash register?

When somebody hears your message or sees your logo from some medium you have created, what does the path from that first ‘touch’ to your cash register look like?

We call this path the yellow brick road. If your yellow brick road is well built, then your customer will follow a developed path from a recognition point to your cash register. If your road is not well built, there is confusion in your message and because of others’ more developed avenues, this customer will end up at your competitor’s cash register. Therefore, your road must stand out, and it must be designed in a way that will lead the customer through a predetermined path with a transaction being the primary goal.

An example of a marketing plan without any such road is one that puts advertising out into the community and does not have a clear actionable next step; or one that has the clear and actionable step, but the step is too big for the customer who is not ready to make an immediate purchase. A person who has been casually contemplating the purchase of your product will not react to a “One Day Sale Next Friday” advertisement. She may consider dropping by your store next Friday during your advertised sale, but chances are that will be forgotten after five minutes. This customer has no path to follow because the timing and the conditions were not yet right for her.

Your advertising in this case, has been somewhat wasted. A woman who will make a purchase in the next six months received it, but the only option that you gave her was to buy next Friday. You do not know who she is and you have no way of following up with her.

Your own aimless advertising cost yourself a warm lead.

The only way to keep in touch with this person is to continue to run costly advertising, and maybe, just maybe, when she is ready to purchase, she will receive another one of your mailers or hear your radio commercial and she will come right in and buy from you. I would not hold my breath if I were you.

Now we’ll run the same example with a message that clearly has a road for this customer to follow. You run an advertisement in the Sunday paper. The advertisement is designed in a way that creates a clear path: a visit to your website. She will visit your website because you have an offer that both interests and engages her; something that caught her eye and sparked her interest. This could be anything from a product recommendation tool your website offers, to a free book about how to pick the perfect product. You will intrigue her enough that she will take the first step down this path. This is powerful because when she goes to the website or calls you on the phone, you will capture her information.

The minute that you capture her information, you have capitalized on your marketing investment. Information, when it is in the right hands, is as good as cash.

Therefore, instead of positioning your advertising, or any other marketing program, to go right for the sale, you should instead also create a more comfortable step for people to take that will give them something of value in exchange for their information.

When you have their information, this puts them on your road. Once they are on your road, you will have everything choreographed so that you touch these future customers as often as possible in a systematic way. With these frequent touches you will be keeping that top-of-mind awareness and you will be flying a holding pattern until they are ready to buy.

Each piece that you put out into the community will have a specific objective about where you want them to go. You will have to choose the destination (website, phone, or to stop in) based on your chances of success of actually getting them there. This being said, obviously, you want them to come into the store, but this is the hardest objective to achieve.

You must understand the proper objective of marketing. This objective will be one of three things. It will either lead the future customer to click, call, or stop in. It is important that you understand your own path as to deliver a clear message to the customer.

When your path is well structured, it will lead right from the customer’s couch to your cash register.

Tom Richard is the author of Smart Sales People Don't Advertise: 10 Was To Outsmart Your Competition With Guerilla Marketing To buy this book or to subscribe to Tom's weekly ezine, visit http://www.tomrichard.com/

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Saturday, December 29, 2007

Restaurant Inventory Software

Marketing is the buzzword when talking about restaurant inventory software. Marketing starts with the determination of consumer wants and ends with the satisfaction of those wants. The concept puts the consumer both at the beginning and at the end of the business cycle. It stipulates that any business should be organized around the marketing function, anticipating, stimulating and meeting customer requirements. The customer, not the corporation has to be the center of the business universe.

Restaurant inventory software cannot succeed by supplying products and services that are not properly designed to serve the needs of the customers. It proclaims that the entire business has to be seen from the point of view of the customer. In a company practicing this concept, all departments will recognize that their actions have a profound impact on the company?s ability to create and retain a customer. Every department and every worker and manager will ?think customer? and ?act customer?.

The other distinguishing feature of restaurant inventory software is integrated management action. Integrated management action simply means that all the different functions of the business must be tightly integrated with one another, keeping marketing as the pivot. This is essential because every function has a bearing on the consumer, and the aim is to see that all the functions lead to a favorable impact on the consumer. For this to happen, all functions have to be integrated and properly aligned with marketing.

In organizations that do not practice integrated management, the different functions of the organization are preoccupied with the optimization of their specific activities, often at the cost of optimization of the overall result. Consumer satisfaction, which is a major theme of restaurant inventory software, is again not an end in itself. The concept does not preach that a firm must generate consumer satisfaction and forget the other goals of the organization. Instead, it treats consumer satisfaction as the pathway to the attainment of all the goals of the organization.



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