10 Tricks to Merchandising Your Store

In retail, display is critical. Follow these insights from The Retail Doctor for merchandising magic.

This year, vow to make your displays really work their magic on your customers. Bob Phibbs, The Retail Doctor, offers these 10 insights to terrific displays. 1. Change your displays ... read more

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Redesign for More Profit

Create a careful road map of your store's layout, and you'll increase your chances of driving in more sales.

Store planning and design is one of the top tasks retailers must do well in order to be successful. Merchandise will sell itself when a store’s design is good, but ... read more

Top 12 Visual Merchandising Ideas

Rick Segel highlights a dozen of the best merchandising tips from the simple to the superb.

Visual merchandising is the art and science of presenting the products you sell in the most attractive way possible, in order to generate traffic, create interest and buzz—and of course, ... read more

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The Guiding Light

With the correct lighting, you can draw customers into your store, entice them to stay and persuade them to buy.

Sales are up at the Bowdoinham Country Store in Bowdoinham, Maine, since it underwent a lighting makeover. Owner Dave Skelton won $2,500 worth of free lighting in an essay contest ... read more

The Art of Display

Like the fine art that graces museum halls, visual merchandise displays are carefully crafted to evoke a feeling and convey a message. Learn some of the basics as well as expert tricks to create display art in your store.

Artist Claes Oldenburg describes art as a technique of communication. “The image is the most complete form of communicating,” he says. This is also an apt description of the practice ... read more

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