Excel Tools From The Book

If you're serious about improving your retail operation, you need to read this book! Among many other things, you will learn to:

• Identify your ideal customer
• Maximize your opportunities with existing customers.
• Attract new customers.
• Identify weaknesses in your store's layout.
• Reframe your definition of customer service.
• Identify the slot that offers your store the greatest opportunity for success.
• Improve the effectiveness of your advertising.
• Improve your sales floor productivity.
• Imrpove your store's profitability and its pricing image.

The book is also available in paperback on Amazon.

A simple spread sheet to help you:

• Increase Margin
• Improve Your Competitive Image
• Manage by Objectives

The Space and Inventory Calculator will help you realize more profit from your available sales space by:

• Helping you to decide what departments to shrink and what ones to expand
• Helping you to decide how much area you should devote to each department.
• Helping you to determine how to shuffle your inventory for maximum efficiency.
• Helping you plan for the future
• Helping you manage by goals and science.

Notice that the price has increased since the video was made.

How do customers and potential customers view your store?

The Competitive Assessment Baromoter will give you feedback regarding where your store would rank against others in several criteria;

• Learn how customers might view your store
• Learn how to improve critical elements regarding customer interface
• Enter simple data, do so objectively and then study the 7 page report printed by the spread sheet.
• Simple process, great information.