Saturday 24 December 2016

Bottle Service Sparklers add a touch of real excitement to your customers

Quality hospitality is all about the pizzazz. The way that people feel inside a nightclub, bar or restaurant is what brings them back time and time again. The style and excitement that you provide as a venue is what gets people talking about you, and bringing their friends along.

Premium drinks are a great way to make your clients happy and to spend more with you. What better way to add to the premium drinks experience than with Bottle Service Sparklers?

This is a fantastic way to make a night out an event for your customers and have them delighted with the experience. Bottle service sparklers will-

  • Wow your customers with something different
  • Get more photos taken and shared on social media – increasing your visibility
  • Increase the sale of bottles as people want to be seen

Gold Bottle Sparklers

Everyone loves to feel special. Your customers want to know that you have this in mind. Gold Bottle Sparklers are the ideal way to put some show and buzz into your delivery of a premium drink bottle. The people that are brought the drink feel on top of the world - and the rest of your venue want to feel the same way too.


It improves your premium bottle drink sales while adding a real excitement to the whole venue. It makes others sit up and take notice. It makes people want to “have what she’s having.”

The gold bottle sparklers are 100% safe around food and drink so you also use them with celebration cakes or for any other occasion. People love the way that they sparkle and shine. It is like having a mini light display all in one place.

Bottle Sparkler Clips

With any part of your business you want to ensure that safety is taken care of. The great Bottle Sparkler Clips will allow you to fit 1, 2 or 3 sparklers to a bottle in a safe and secure manner.


Your bar, restaurant or nightclub will be the talk of the town when you start to use Bottle Service Sparklers. Just imagine the look in your customers’ eyes when you bring out their premium drink and deliver it with a buzz of excitement.


That is the difference that Bottle Service Sparklers will bring to you. That is why you need to check them out now.

Tuesday 20 December 2016

Have a happy retail Christmas! Beware of Boxing Day

It's that time of the year when many retailers are rushed off their feet. I know my traditional readership falls at this time because people are too busy. I wanted to take this opportunity to say Happy Christmas to all of those that follow me. I know that my readers consist of independent retailers and people who work for bigger companies. This short blog today is going to be about the current debate on Boxing Day opening.

I have worked in retail for a long time and I know how tough it can be at this time of the year. Often the most important people in a store only get a day off at Christmas as they are needed on Christmas Eve and Boxing Day. This is far too much pressure with the pay to match.


I know of many good retail managers that will look after their people. Most workers will get some time off over Christmas or the New Year period if it can be worked properly. I completely sympathise with all of the people that are signing the petition to stop retailers from opening on Boxing Day. I can honestly see a huge amount of sense in it but in my eyes it does not solve a problem. There are so many people from different industries that have to work on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day at all timed of the day and night that it is impractical to take one part of one industry and exclude it. If the shops were not open then people would shop online and then the pickers and delivery staff would be working anyway. There are no real winners here.

Healthcare, hospitality and taxi drivers are some of the many people that work on these days. Retail staff cannot be made an exception.

So what can be done?

I have worked with many retailers who try to make this as fair as possible. In the places I have worked with in the past it was either done on a 'year-on, year-off' basis or worked that it was voluntary where possible. Some (particularly those with older contracts)  are rewarded with higher pay rates on these days and are happier to come in as a result. Take a look at what might work for you.

As I said, this is only a short blog and a chance to say 'Happy Christmas.' I think that there will only be one more blog before Christmas so if I don't see you again have a good one. Here's to a fantastic retail 2017.

Friday 9 December 2016

Wedding Day Sparklers add a real buzz to your big day

Your wedding day is an event you want everyone to remember. The day can disappear in a flash so it is important to give those extra details that make your wedding day stand out in the memory of all your guests. The best weddings have that something extra that people look back on with great fondness.
There is no better way to make the day memorable than to give your guests sparklers. It lights up your wedding day and gives a memorable backdrop to the occasion. Sparklers add that touch of excitement that turn another wedding into a celebration.

Wedding Day Sparklers provide the best quality sparklers and more to add that special touch to your wedding celebration. See the faces of young and old alike light up as they watch the sparklers light up the dark. When you look back on your wedding photos, the sparklers will brighten the evening and bring those memories flooding back.


The amazing 20 inch sparklers will look great when they are captured on film, whether this is still photography or video. With most smartphones having time lapse technology you can use the two minute sparkle of these 20 inches for your guests to write a message in the night air. These make great gifts or can be used to send you off on your honeymoon.

The fantastic 36 inch sparklers last over three minutes so your guests can have a lot of fun with them. These are the longest lasting sparklers that you can find so you will only need one or two sparklers for each guest. They are smokeless so you don’t need to worry that they will cloud your photos or cause issues indoors.

All of the sparklers provided by http://weddingdaysparklers.com/ look great, so they fit in with the wedding theme. Too many sparklers are aimed at kids and do not have the class and sophistication needed to look at home in a wedding celebration. Wedding Day Sparklers understand what the bride and groom want.


Sparklers really add that ‘wow factor’ to photos and will make sure that everyone remembers your wedding day as fondly as you do. They bring photos to life and ensure that the fun lasts well into the evening.


The sparklers that Wedding Day Sparklers deliver are great value so you can be sure that they will fit into your budget when you are planning the big day. Check them out now.

Saturday 3 December 2016

Retailers need to solve an image problem to recruit top talent

Retail has an image problem with potential employees. Although working in retail can be interesting, rewarding and provide career progression it is seen as a dead end job taken only by those that can't get anything else by too many graduates. A high proportion of retail workers are 2nd income earners that go out to work in shops as a supplement to what the main earner brings in. But it doesn't have to be this way. The fact is that retail can provide good pay and conditions, career progression and a lifetime of learning.


What high quality potential new recruits want to see is where they can take their career and how quickly. This is even more important for the millennial generation (more of these in a moment) to be attracted to these roles.

Retailers have a duty to make their career progression more structured and promote this as widely as possible. The discount retailers, particularly Aldi and Lidl, have made great strides in recruiting people recently by offering a great salary and advertising it well. This has attracted good talent and these retailers will have a good chance of retaining that talent, even though they have a reputation for working people hard.

But what are other retailers doing? Where is the search for quality candidates? What can a retailer offer someone who graduates from a top university?


Many retailers need to look differently at how they position themselves in the recruitment market. They talk in similar tones to the likes of McDonalds in terms of camaraderie and fulfillment but the current group teaching the job market (towards the end of the millennial generation) want more from a career than that. The average millennial wants-

  • To work for a company that shares the same values as them
  • They are high users of technology and social media
  • They want a challenge at work and need to be stimulated

Now the clever retailer will hear their recruitment to these needs and find the best talent. Millennials can be found online, on social media and want to be engaged by potential employers. As a retailer you might well need to up your game. The content that you put out there will really help you to connect with millennials and show that you understand their space. How you go about changing the perception of retailing as a career is going to be down to the way that you present the opportunities you have. Giving your team the chance to get involved with the social media marketing or to work in different areas of the business will give people more of a reason to consider working with you. It might make the difference when you are looking for talent to fill your next vacancy.