PATHWAYS
A BLOG FOR BUSINESS DIRECTION
Understanding Your Shopper
The gateway to growing your business is by understanding your shopper’s attitude and behavior. Without having a full understanding of your…
Directing the Path to Success
New-age retailing is a complex paradigm. On one end of the spectrum, there are hundreds of vendors and suppliers who try to their products…
From the Desk of Steven Muro: Navigating the Virtual Workspace
Keanu Reeves, Neo in the movie The Matrix, thought that reality was definitive. He learned that in fact: reality might be a virtual construct.
Storytelling — The Key to Giving You the Competitive Advantage
Before video, before books, and before written language, there was storytelling. Oral storytelling is how history, culture, and civilization…
The Power of Multiple Streams of Traffic
Direct mail marketing, email campaigns, social media, television and much more, the ability to market your business is expanding unlike…
A Simple Idea to Ensure a Lift in Promotional Sales
To ensure a sales lift when selling-in BOGO’s (Buy One Get One Free), bonus products (XX% more for free!), or discounted price offers to your…
From the Desk of Steven Muro: A Fusion Between Two Sides — Getting Sales and Marketing to Work Together
Before I founded Fusion, I was a VP of marketing, worldwide for a large, well-know CPG company. As I started my position, I noticed the…
Tips on How to Land Your Next Big Retail Sales Meeting
While your customers already know their own sales figures, they often do not know how they are performing compared to their competitors or…
Improving Your Distribution Pattern Can Lead to Greater Success
Perhaps you have already been thinking about how your distribution patterns are impacting your business. If so, you are on the right path to…
When the Do-it-Yourself Approach Doesn’t Get It Done
Whenever there is a perceived downturn in the economy (sometimes even when there is not) some companies’ strategy is to save funds by cutting…
Seven Simple Steps to Ensure Financial Rewards from Promotions
When launching a promotion do you hope for the best OR plan for success? Perhaps you already build a financial pro forma for your promotions…
Why Marketing Today Is Pretty Much Like Marketing Was in 1503
The year was 1503 and Jack decided to sell his cow. So, he headed off to the local market with a sign around the animal’s neck that simply said…

