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Why Guess? Ask a Virtual Focus Group

Your Facebook feed doesn’t always have to be one-way. Let your customers help you, too.

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9 years ago

July 6, 2015

Trace Shelton

Why Guess? Ask a Virtual Focus Group

STRUGGLING FOR interesting new content for your social media feed? Why not ask your followers what they want to see?

Andy Malis, president and founder of MGH, an integrated marketing agency that’s worked with dozens of jewelry stores, says that your Facebook feed doesn’t always have to be one-way (you giving information or images, and followers commenting). If you’ve narrowed a particular business decision down to a couple of options, why not ask them for the answer?

For example, you could ask which designer they’d rather see at a trunk show. Or even which new line they’d like you to add to your inventory. You can show them two or three options and take votes. You could wind up with information that’s more valuable than you could have possibly predicted.

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.”