John’s Blog

This podcast has a special focus on tips for the speaker presenting to international audiences, recorded for Thomas Murrell’s Media Motivators e-zine. It looks at how as a speaker you can “think global and act local” with the customisation of your content. This special podcast was recorded at a National Speakers Association of Australia (NSAA) […]

This month is focused on Asia as I have been travelling through Hong Kong and working in the Philippines. I have been working with food retailers and developing merchandising strategies. Watch my intro video…

Looking at merchandising in this part of the world there is one simple message..keep it simple. When it comes to displays we often make displays too complicated. Look at the innovators in the market place and they are focused on a simple message using simple props and a few products. The challenge with simple is

The book on the plane…Whilst flying to Manila I read “Influencer” by Joseph Grenny, Kerry Patterson, David Maxfield, Ron McMillan and Al Switzler. This book is published by Mc Graw Hill in 2013. This book focuses on leading change in businesses and life and presents a very simple formulae that we can all use. It

50% of most food the farmer produces is wasted, this is one of the major issues of the globe today and also a retail opportunity. This month I came across two examples of what we can do to overcome this problem. One was a health store in Ortigas City in the Philippines that promotes its

One of the things the Asian retailers do well is the use of vehicles as marketing tools. I love the way they can take a vehicle and make it a billboard on wheels. These are just a few pictures from my walks around Manila.

Looking to the future and how retail will change. This excellent article 9 Ways Retail Will Radically Change In The Near Future from the Business Insider this month that Sid Raisch discovered. Well worth the read! “For the past few years, brick-and-mortar retailers didn’t have a fighting chance to compete with the personalization and convenience provided by

I was recently asked to contribute to the 2014 Retail Experts Survey in the United Kingdom, the following is a snippet from the results. “Retail is always an exciting, dynamic and somewhat challenging space. We have assembled some of the brightest minds in Retail to provide you with their opinions on how technology, e-commerce and social media

At one retail trade show I attended one of the big new trends is “queue busters”. These are hand held iPads that team members use that allow the consumer to pay anywhere in the store. Over recent months I have been promoting that the cash register is now a dinosaur and the move to handheld