Clare Rayner
The Retail Champion
Clare is a retail expert, speaker, writer, mentor, consultant, analyst and trainer. Through The Retail Champion programmes she shares her expertise with both retailers and suppliers to retail, developing strategies to increase profit, customer base, revenue streams & channels to market.Follow The Retail Champion on Linkedin
Category Archives: 10 steps to retail success
The Retail Champion: 10-steps to Retail Success – The Book! #indieretail
I was invited to write a guest blog for Claire Boyles who runs Success Matters (twitter: @claireboyles), it was to focus on Successes (and/or failures) in 2011. For Claire’s blog I decided to focus on how I’d had a success … Continue reading
Don’t let a Christmas hangover get you down – January is a great time for planning!
January is the traditional “doldrums” in the retail sector. Consumers have the financial hangover of Christmas to deal with. The whole of the high street have collapsed into a sale-frenzy, desperately trying to secure some custom whilst clearing out the … Continue reading
Step 10 of #RetailChampion 10-Steps to Retail Success: Back Office
This blog introduces the tenth and final step of the “10-steps to retail success“, Back Office. 10-steps to retail success is a process / methodology I’ve developed for my 1-2-1 mentoring clients. Over the past weeks / months I’ve been … Continue reading
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Retail closures, job losses, administrations – what can #indieretail do to fill the void?
I’ve done a lot of radio interviews in the past 10 days talking about the fact all these heavy discounts and early sales are doing no good to the big retailers, how there will be carnage in the New Year. … Continue reading
Step 9 of #RetailChampion 10-Steps to Retail Success: Planning and Controlling
This blog introduces the nineth step, of the “10-steps to retail success“, Planning and Controlling. 10-steps to retail success is a process / methodology I’ve developed for my 1-2-1 mentoring clients. Over the past weeks / months I’ve been introducing each … Continue reading
