Business Practice
How to Reduce Employee Theft in Retail
Business management advice from Tower Systems Theft is something to be managed in any retail business. Retailers are stolen from by employees. Good management is about reducing the opportunity for and instances of theft. Consider this advice and the ...
How to Deal with Customer Theft in Retail
Business management advice from Tower Systems. If you have items that you know are regularly stolen through regular spot stocktakes consider these tips for managing to reduce the cost of theft. Ensure all staff know about the problem. Spot stocktake ...
Toy Shop-specific Tools In Retailer you can use to make your Business more Successful
Retailer, the Toy Shop software from Tower Systems includes facilities designed to help toy shops be more successful. Most of these facilities are different to what you would find in everyday POS software. They have been developed with toy retailers ...
Fishing & Outdoors Shop-Specific Facilities in Retailer you can use to make your Business more Successful
Retailer, the Fishing Shop Software from Tower Systems has facilities designed for your type of business, to help you better serve your customers and to bring them back into the business. This is all about Stickiness. Stickiness is the best way to ...
Rural Supplies / Produce Store-Specific Facilities in Retailer to help you better Serve Rural Communities
Rural Supplies / Produce businesses are not your usual retail businesses. While for sure they sell items, these businesses do this often in a way and through processes that are different to everyday retail. Software from Tower Systems has facilities ...
Garden Centre-Specific Facilities in Retailer to help you Better Leverage your Points of Difference
Every day is a battle in independent small business, especially where you have a giant of a competitor outspending you on advertising. We think the best way to compete is to leverage your points of difference, at every opportunity. Software from ...
Pet Shop-Specific Facilities in Retailer to help you Better Leverage your Points of Difference
Pet Barn and others spend big trying to take business from independent pet retailers. Our role as a software company that develops and supports pet store specific software is to help you leverage your many points of difference. We believe in small ...
Jeweller-Specific Facilities in Retailer to help you Better Leverage your Points of Difference
Let’s start with a story… Frank got to the shop just before closing, in time to purchase a beautiful necklace as a gift for his wife for their seventh wedding anniversary. Talking about this at the counter, we explained how we could remind him next ...
Retail management advice: how to make your retail business more valuable and successful than any cash handout can
How people shop, when people shop and where people shop has changed fundamentally. Online has grown and continues to grow. People shop more with purpose now. There is less browsing. More people work from home permanently. What interests people has ...
Putaways Marketing Tips
This is for Newsagencies Only Customers who purchase putaways are valuable to your business. They spend more money over multiple departments (not just magazines) than average customers. They also purchase from the business more often, and they pay ...
Positive Five
Too many businesses treat customer service as secondary to the routine processes of the business. By investing in customer service and getting all your staff to think positively, you will improve your business. The following five suggestions give ...
Lottery Marketing
This is for Newsagencies Only These free tips are aimed at helping to grow newsagents and other retailer's businesses. Partly inspired by a lack of available independent advice, these marketing tips cover ways to leverage lottery sales. Preprint and ...
Employee Theft Prevention
Employee theft is serious and more common than people think. It’s not easy to accept, but employee theft is worth considering as the cause of suspicious cash flow activity. These tips will help you erase employee theft from your business. Pay Above ...
Disaster Planning
Disaster planning is vital for any retail business. Too often, the need for good disaster planning is realised after a disaster has hit the business. This advice sheet offers business and computer related advice which is designed to mitigate the ...
Being Local
Yes, you can compete with national chain stores! By focusing on the local community, you can beat the chain stores at a grass-roots level. Chain stores usually write a cheque to show local support & sponsor a sport team or a charity. Real engagement ...
What Do I Do When an Employee Leaves?
Here are some simple steps to consider taking when an employee stops working for you. These steps are designed to protect your business and the former employee. Change your locks. If you’re in a high-street situation and if the employee had keys, ...