More Tips for Your Dollar Store
Coupons with priority codes: All Dollar Store retailers must focus on some sort of advertising coupons to promote their Dollar Store. Whether you're a big retailer or YES even a Dollar Store. American consumers spend over $500 billion a year purchasing goods and services through direct mail.
Get involved in your community: Associate your Dollar Store with your local community. Help sponsor events, little league baseball team, girl scouts, and maybe even reserve a little spot in your store for local news. Whatever you decide, it will help place you in a better image in the eyes of your customers.
Email Newsletters: E-mail is the most inexpensive method of marketing, take advantage of it. Place a box with surveys your customers can sign up to to receive new promotional discounts, special offers, coupons, and e-mail them weekly of even monthly to keep a customer informed of any great savings your Dollar Store has to offer.
Use our POS to help you manage PROMOTIONS: Everyone like a new promotion to save a buck… Rotate your merchandise and select products that will bring your customers in. Our Dollar Store POS give you that and more. Use it to the most of it's potential.
Get Noticed: Use your Dollar Store sign to and window signs to get noticed. It is important that you indicate what lies inside your Dollar Store. A lot of our customers create great catch names for their Dollar Stores but forget that the message can be left out or even misinterpreted.
· Multi purchase Discounts: Give a customer that buys in large quantities a reward. If they buy 5 or 10 items reward them with offer such as buy 10 receive one free.
Control your product line: Use our Inventek Dollar Store POS software to track your top sellers and the poor selling items. It is crucial that you get the poor sellers out quickly and the only way is to identify them. Place them on your end caps or use them for your promotions, while the top sellers must always be in your store. Don't make the mistake of not ordering enough of them. The only way is through an efficient Inventory control software like “Inventek Dollar Store POS software”.
Complemental products: One product will help sell another product. Find them and match them up. Ex: Beer and Peanuts.
·Becme an expert: You and only you know where everything is in your Dollar Store and what product you carry. Get to know the product lines and when a customer has a question, you WILL have the answer.
Keep your shelves FULL: I can't stress the importance of keeping as much, no better yet, ALL of your merchandise out of the stockroom and into the sales floor. A good way is not to limit the amount of times you replenish your Dollar Store. Keep replenishing through the day. Customers will notice any and every opening you have on your shelves.
