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Video: Retail Roundup: Warby Parker, Offline Strategies & Small Ecommerce Businesses

This week we look at Warby Parker and their offline marketing strategies. We discuss ways in which small businesses can implement similar strategies.Audio Only:

Hi and welcome to the Retail Roundup. This is Syama from Scaling Retail.

This week I would like to talk to you about a recent interview given by the CEO, Warby Parker at the NRF’s retail big show. In this interview, it was really fantastic. He was illustrating the different offline opportunities
that they were able to capture last year.

One of them being a mobile salon of eye glasses that they were able to have their customers try on new products and take photos in them and ultimately
build some social campaign and awareness around that. The important element to realize here is all marketing efforts kind of come with a return on investment, if you will.

So when you’re a small business and you’re looking to really get the word out there what you are selling, take a look at all the different channels of opportunities for you to access your customer. If you are e-commerce
only look for other touch points outside of the online world that your customer can be found.

Last year the mobile platform that Warby Parker launched was stationed here in Los Angeles, in Venice. I had an opportunity to give it a check out, try on some glasses, and ultimately what they are able to get from me was my email address. And also a bounce back to their site and this is extremely valuable when you are looking to build your customer acquisition process. How can you make it engaging, fun, and really will have your customers walk away with a really good experience and also this word of mouth that is so, so important.

Of course, following up all types of marketing, innovation, pushing things out to your social media channels, and ultimately being able to take the conversation full circle is really important. Now when you are doing these different channels, looking at your return on investment, and projecting that out can be somewhat challenging. How do you know how much money you need to invest? How do you know what channels are actually worth it?

Well, that can really come through some careful execution and starting to look at best practices across other channels. What we can see and do now is that there is a rising trend of all of these fashion trucks, of course, food trucks but really mobile ways of getting to your customer. So definitely take a look at these different platforms. Find out if there is a way for you to team up some other brands, other retailers, or other designers to collectively get your products shown in different market places.

You will find that it attracts a whole new customer base, you can share your costs in that way and hopefully you will be able get some more customers that are bouncing back to your site. Always make sure there is a call to action and all of your online and offline marketing channels and that your customers know how to find you. Perhaps there is an incentive at 20% discount or something else that you can offer to them to really get them back into your funnel.

Remember if an event sounds like a great idea, all these different types of pop-ups seem like a great idea but without having a great execution and strategy in mind of what you need to get out of it, you might be just wasting your dollars. So please evaluate all the opportunities that you have before going ahead and making a decision to go for it. Alright. Hope you have a great weekend. Talk to you soon. Bye.