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The Show Must Go On
Hello! I am Shivaram From Retail Gurukul, Bangalore. We trust that you, your family, friends, and family are safe and taking all precautions in this time of crisis. Businesses wise, family-wise, lifestyle-wise a fundamental change is happening. It is said, this is the 3rd restructuring that is taking place in the last 100 years. The first…
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What You Can Learn from Dream, Dare & Deliver
We invite you again, to regular titbits, ideas and thoughts on how to grow or grow your business Today I would like to talk about a book whose author I met recently. The book is DREAM DARE DELIVER; the author is Subhasish Chakraborty of DTDC fame. I recently went to a hotel and accidentally bumped…
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How Will You Adapt Digital To Grow Your Business
Today’s topic is about Sundar Pichai’s comment: In India, I think roughly 50% of small medium enterprises have kind of adopted a digital for the first time in 2020. Maybe the COVID forced the SME enterprise to adopt some kind of the digital. Many of us actually shopped online for vegetables for the first time,…
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What can We Learn About Team Work from Ratan Tata’s Team?
Hello, How are you doing? “I came upon a lighthouse” by S Naidu is a book on the personal side of Ratan Tata. This is my 3rd lesson in the series based on my lessons from the book. If you haven’t read the first 2 lessons, then you can do that by clicking on the…
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Why to Keep Your Promise, Because the Customer Will Remember it..
Dear Jeweller, Today I would like to talk about this book “I came upon a lighthouse” by Shantanu Naidu. Actually, this is my second learning from this book. He is the assistant to Mr. Ratan Tata. This is the story about how because of his passion of preventing stray dogs being hit by moving vehicles,…
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What You Can Learn About Recruiting From Ratan Tata
Dear Jeweller, How are you doing? Recently I read this wonderful book “I came upon a lighthouse” by Shantanu Naidu, in about 4 days! Shantanu Naidu is an executive assistant to Mr. Ratan Tata in his Tata Trust and works in his office. Directly with him! What a significant experience indeed to learn from Mr.…
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Staff Meetings at the Store – Day and Night
Dear Retailer, Do you do morning meetings in your store? If Yes, that’s great. If No, then why not? You should do morning meeting every day in your store. Every day in the morning around 10–10:30 AM you should do it. The meeting can start 5 minutes after the staff is due to be present…
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Are You Willing to Change?
I met a retailer last year. We introduced ourselves. He asked me what do you do. I said, I improve the profitability of jewellery retailers. He asked how would you do that? I said jewellers have 33% of dead stock. He asked me to visit his store and see for myself. I said I don’t…
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Reboot, Realign & Refresh in 2021
Dear Retailer, Do you want to increase your sales now and in the future? Yes, for Higher SALES? Do you want to get back to normal profit as fast as possible? Yes, for PROFIT? Do you want to grow your business better than before? Yes, for GROWTH? If you have 3/3 Yes, then you are…
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The Brutal Truth About An Insider Problem
My Dearest business owner, Would you like to grow your business? Are you ready to hear the truth of what is stopping you from growing your business? I was speaking to one of our clients who attended my workshop in Chennai. He had few issues on how to deal with staff. He asked me how…
