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Your Own Web-based Radio Show
If you follow this blog, you know that I’m a big fan of leveraging web-based resources like blogs, podcasts, vodcasts, and social/business networks (like Linkedin and Facebook). I also want to … more →
Dirks On Strategy
Your Own Web-based Radio Show
David Dirks wrote 4 months ago: If you follow this blog, you know that I’m a big fan of leveraging web-based resources like bl … more →
Promotion 101: Educate Your Customers
David Dirks wrote 8 months ago: I always like to review my local paper to see how businesses are handling their display advertising. … more →
CNNMoney on Innovation: Too Simplistic
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David Dirks wrote 9 months ago: The headline on this CNNMoney posting dated February 26th, 2009 read, “On sale: Your brillant … more →
Beating A Recession - 12: Blow Up the Brick & Mortar!
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David Dirks wrote 9 months ago: Want to save a significant amount of annual expense and increase your profitability…and lower … more →
Beating a Recession - 10
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David Dirks wrote 9 months ago: I’ve written quite a bit about the fact that now is the time to keep some marketing and promot … more →
Retailing Winners: Deep Discounters and Used Re-Sellers
David Dirks wrote 10 months ago: We should have seen this one coming. While most of retailing struggles, there are those who are doi … more →
Sales down? Invest in Your Sales Teams
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David Dirks wrote 11 months ago: Another knee-jerk reaction to slower sales and revenues: cutting back on sales training. Cutting in … more →
Beating a Recession: Don't Play on Price Alone!
David Dirks wrote 11 months ago: I recently saw an ad in my local paper from a tire dealer. It was a good sized ad and it had one fo … more →
Beating the Recession Webinar Now Available!
David Dirks wrote 11 months ago: You’ve asked for it and now we’re offering it… If there was one webinar that you c … more →
Retailer Strategies: Beating the Big Boxes
David Dirks wrote 11 months ago: A regular reader of our blog, a marketing director of a two-store retail operation, recently sent me … more →
Beating a Recession - 8
David Dirks wrote 1 year ago: I’m always on the prowl for ideas that can help combat the economic slowdown. Here are two th … more →
Beating a Recession - 7
David Dirks wrote 1 year ago: Here’s a question for you: When you made your last major purchase (car, truck, appliances, et … more →
Beating a Recession - 6
David Dirks wrote 1 year ago: The title of this blog entry gives away a powerful (and seemingly obvious) way to battle your way to … more →
Driving Retail Sales: Layaway Plans
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David Dirks wrote 1 year ago: It seems like a hundred years ago but there was a time when credit cards were not the ‘cash … more →
Driving Retail Sales: Groo's Shoes
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David Dirks wrote 1 year ago: If you read this blog long enough, you’ll get the hint that creating a growing and profitable … more →
Locating Your Retail Store
David Dirks wrote 1 year ago: How many times have you passed a retail store location that seems to be a revolving door for busines … more →
Increasing Deli Foot Traffic in a Declining Market
David Dirks wrote 1 year ago: In the building I work in, there is a nice little deli that serves breakfast and lunch. While they … more →
Sales Flyers Stink
David Dirks wrote 1 year ago: Do you know what the life expectancy of a sales flyer is? About 5 seconds…before it ends up in the v … more →
Relationship Marketing: Skate Boarding Shop
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David Dirks wrote 2 years ago: Good grief. I was at my local ski shop the other day, picking up our ski rentals for the season. R … more →
