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Get Your (Digital) Clippers Ready — It’s Coupon Month, and Other Important Dates for September

Encourage respect for elders on Grandparents Day and tolerance for curiosity on Ask a Stupid Question Day.

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4 years ago

August 29, 2020

INSTORE Staff Instore September 2020 Issue

1 If you think those clip-out offers of an 18-cent discount on a tub of margarine aren’t quite in keeping with your store’s image, it could be time to rethink coupons. In 2020, they are as likely to come via a person’s smartphone as their mailbox. During NATIONAL COUPON MONTH, get more familiar with Facebook Deals, Google My Business coupons, your POS system’s loyalty program — as well as providers such as Pocket Deals, Yowza and Coupon Sherpa — to see how you can entice nearby shoppers into your store with a digital offer.

1 Simply being good is not a strategic vision. During STRATEGIC THINKING MONTH, ask yourself, what is your competitive edge?

8 President Jimmy Carter declared this day GRANDPARENTS’ DAY in 1978. Put aside a few special jewelry collections, such as lockets, earrings and watches, for Gran and Pops, front and center of the store and social media.

28 ASK A STUPID QUESTION DAY is actually an opportunity to get important feedback. Challenge your staff to ask you a dumb question about why you do something in your store a certain way. Sometimes everyone quietly thinks there’s a better way, but they don’t dare say.

Looking for a Seamless Sale? Call Wilkerson

After almost 60 years in business, Breakiron Jewelers in Erie, Pennsylvania, was closing its doors. And the store’s owner, Linda Breakiron, was ready for it. She had run the store as its sole owner since the beginning of the millennium and was looking forward to a change. Of course, she called Wilkerson. Breakiron talked to other jewelers who had used Wilkerson and was satisfied with their response. “They always had positive feedback,” she recalls. With the sales, marketing and even additional inventory that Wilkerson provided, Breakiron insists she could never have accomplished her going-out-of-business sale without Wilkerson’s help. She’s now ready for the journey ahead, but looking back, she’d be sure to recommend Wilkerson. “They just made the whole process very seamless.”