This message is for all the employees of your company. Please take a printout and ask every employee to read this and explain it to you first, and then to other employees! Dear Employee, Wishing you a happy festival season. The world has certainly changed and has affected each[…]
What’s Your Cheese?
Dear Retailer, I, Shivaram from Retail Gurukul wish you a wonderful Navaratra, Dhanteras, Diwali and Laxmi Pooja festival season both at a personal level and a professional level. Celebrate the good news. The markets have opened up even during Shrad. How? Amazon & Flipkart opened their annual sales during shrad[…]
How to Make Micro Change for Macro Result
Have you wondered why you start your day with an extensive list of things to do, and yet you are still unsatisfied with what you did the whole day? Do you feel frustrated? Story: AB is a busy business owner running his business with a tight fist on everything. He[…]
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[…]
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[…]
How to Get 15% More Business Without New Customers
The most common question jewellers ask me is ” help us get new customers”. As a jeweller, are you having the same question too? Heerawala and Sonawala Jewellers are a typical Indian Family jewellery business. They have been in the business for over 20+ years and have a great reputation[…]
How to Go From Untold PAIN to Unexpected GAINS
The biggest “untold“ pain in your store would be the >34% of the gold jewellery stuck for over 6 months. At a 30 kg of stock, that is 10 Kgs. Yes, Rs.5+Crores of precious, hard earned money. Rs. 5,00,00,000 or 25,000 Rs. 2,000 notes. Have you observed that you are[…]
सफलता पाने के लिए बदलिए
1993, गोल्डन एन्क्लेव में तनिष्क का ऑफिस, बैंगलोर। पेरिस में डायमंड Studded ज्वेलरी बिज़नेस के असफल होने के बाद तनिष्क ने लोकल मार्केट में 18 KT ज्वेलरी लांच किया। यह यहाँ भी नाकामयाब हो रहा था। इसका लोगो Chinese रेस्टॉरेंट के जैसे लग रहा था, स्टोर का अगला हिस्सा पूरा[…]
Obsessions of a Jewellery Retailer Part -3
After carefully observing the jewellers, here’s what I have found out as the 3 more obsessions the successful retailers have mastered. 7. Growth: The successful one have out grown the “sarafa” market and established themselves in the new growth markets of the town/city but also into nearby towns and cities[…]
Obsessions of a Jewellery Retailer Part -2
I have Coached 350+ jewellery retailers personally, and 2500 + jewellers have attended my seminars and we have trained more than 15,000 sales staff. Besides my 10+ years at Tanishq in roles like Head of Training, Merchandising and Sales. After carefully observing them, here’s what I have found out the[…]