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
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Monthly Archives: July 2012
Creating Christmas Shopping Crawls – A local activation element of #indiexmas for #indieretail
It’s 25th July – it’s possibly going to be the hottest day of the year (about time). Why then am I blogging about Christmas shopping crawls? Well, I’ve been inspired by Banbury who have run a month-long shopping crawl to … Continue reading
Posted in Campaigns, customer engagement, Events, News, The Retail Champion
Tagged christmas shopping, independent christmas, indie xmas, shopping crawl
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Retail reaction to #PortasPilots
Today a further 15 “Portas Pilots” were announced. I’d had the press release yesterday and along with a number of retailers and people like me, small business owners who support and work with retailers, had a number of misgivings and … Continue reading
SHAPPS: MULTI MILLION PACKAGE OF SUPPORT TO REVIVE THE COUNTRY’S HIGH STREETS
Nearly 400 Town Teams are to win backing from a multi-million pound package of Government support to revive their high streets and make them the beating hearts of their communities, Local Government Minister Grant Shapps announced today. Having received an … Continue reading
Retail Ready People – a great project from @RetailTrust & @Vinspired #Indieretail
vInspired, the charity dedicated to helping young people do good things, has teamed up with retail charity, Retail Trust, to offer young people in England aged 16 – 25 the opportunity to take part in a new 12 week skills … Continue reading
Posted in Campaigns, Events, News, The Retail Champion
Tagged retail ready people, retail trust, vinspired
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When local press is led solely by advertising revenues local businesses loose out
For a while I’ve had a sneaky suspicion that my local press in St Albans weren’t entirely fair in their reporting of local business news. In September 2007, at the opening event of my offices – a new, innovative use … Continue reading
Posted in The Retail Champion
Tagged cuthberts toys, local business, local press, selling advertising, st albans, the dressing room
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