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Virtual merchandising basics: Build and maintain a strategy that attracts and retains customers

There are a lot of nuances in visual merchandising, making it hard to master. This quick refresher will help you refine and reinforce your retail strategies.

10 visual merchandising strategies which can help boost sales

Does your retail store draw enough attention? Attract a wider audience and drive more sales with these 10 smart visual merchandising techniques.

These 17 effective types of visual merchandising displays will boost your store traffic

Visual merchandising displays are proven to increase sales by as much as four times. So we compiled here the best 17 displays to keep your customers coming.

All Types of Key Performance Indicators with Examples and how QVALON can help to perform them

Guide to ISO 14000 for Beginner (GMP) by QVALON

Guide to ISO 14000 for Beginner from QVALON — cloud-based solution to manage, monitor, and magnify your retail business.

The Complete Guide to Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) by QVALON

Do your retail operations comply with Good Manufacturing Practices? Here’s everything you need to know about GMP regulations and how to ace them with QVALON.

3 reasons why audit results frustrate you

If you are not satisfied with the results of an operational audit, read this article. Surely there is an answer to your question.

A new level to visual merchandising management in retail

Are you familiar with the theory of merchandising evolution? If not, read this article.

Black Friday Retail Tips ☝️ You Should Know About

Getting ready for Black Friday? Learn tips on how to increase sales and fine-tune your operational processes with effective Black Friday retail strategies.

QVALON at CSIE21

A blog about our participation in the Coffee Shop Innovation Expo 2021 it London 9, 10 November. 

Omnichannel Retail: Basics, benefits, and best examples

Shifting to Omnichannel Retail? Learn its importance and see some of the best omnichannel retail examples you can use for inspiration.

Extracting insightful data from audit results ✅ with QVALON

Humans are prone to errors & biases. Positive impact of any technological solution gets undermined by such human influence. QVALON helps businesses operate such that they get maximum benefits.

Retail metrics: The reasons behind retail KPI challenges and how to fix them

Identifying retail metrics is imperative for your business’ success. Learn how to fix your retail KPI challenges and make them as effective as possible.

Why ready-made checklists do not work

You can find a checklist on the Internet for almost any business purpose. It can seem easy: take it and use it. However, in most cases, such checklist samples are useless.

Everything you need ☝️ to know to inspire healthy competition

Competition can either motivate or burn out your employees. Here's how to foster healthy workplace competition and help your staff and your company succeed.

The FARSH restaurant chain has improved its performance through internal audits ❗️

A detailed story in our new article. 

Image-based checklists. ☑️ A new approach towards compliance

Sometimes it's easier to show a picture than to write a long explanation. Find out how that works in QVALON. 

Improve staff motivation ☝️with QVALON

The common form of employee motivation involves reward and punishment. But this approach does not always produce the desired results. Using QVALON can help to correct this situation.

Franchisee or Franchisor: Who Gets Franchise Control

Considering getting a franchise business? Before you do, make sure you understand what a franchise is and who’s in charge.

Correct terms for quick workforce acceptance ☝️

In this article, you will discover the reasons for the resistance of the workforce to change in the workplace. We will tell you how to avoid this.

How merchandising helps retailers sell and succeed ❓

Marketers influence consumers' shopping decisions through merchandising. This blog post explains why retailers should leverage it.

Advantages of company's internal audit ☝️

What is an internal audit, why a business needs it and how to use QVALON for it. Read about all this in our new article.

QVALON to replace MS Excel, MS Word checklists ☝️

Checklists can be created in MS Excel or MS Word, but they are not very convenient to use. QVALON is a more efficient alternative.

Combat negativity in the workplace ❗️

Discover how to reduce workplace negativity in the workplace. It helps improve your company culture, which can help you strengthen every aspect of your business.

QVALON: A retail management solution lights the way for dark stores

Dark stores facilitate quick delivery of products to customers. The downsides are there, but there’s no internal audit task that the QVALON system can't handle.

The concept of "Dark Stores" and why retailers need to be aware of them

Why are big retailers and eCommerce giants opening up dark stores? Find out why this retail concept works and how you can apply it to your business.

Fashion brands should use retail management software ❗️ from storage to store front

Improve warehouse and in-store operations with retail software to increase customer satisfaction, employee productivity, and business success.

Operational Audit Overview: Definition, Process, and Purposes

Conducting an operational audit might change the game for your business. Find out how important it is.

Designing retail audit checklists for success ❗️

Want to streamline your retail audits but don’t know where to start? A digital retail audit checklist might just be the answer you need.

The secret of clean Burger King Kitchens. ☝️ Motivated contractors

Practical experience applying QVALON for checking the contractors and comments implementation.

Create talent pool for your business ☝️

The best managers are growing inside the company, so many organizations are working hard to build a talent pool and train and develop employees who are potentially ready to take up managerial positions. QVALON will help to make this difficult task easier.

Why departmental audits do not reflect the true picture of retail business ❓

It is not enough to audit only individual departments of a company. Why this is so, we tell you in our new article.

System for setting SMART tasks ☝️

There are many electronic systems available for setting up tasks but not all of them are SMART compliant. You can keep the SMART concept in mind when setting tasks, or you can use QVALON and set SMART tasks automatically.

Make merchandising a sales tool ❗️

Often merchandising is reduced solely to the layout or goods’ presentation, but it would be a significant omission. This is a much broader and more multifaceted business process. More information in this article.

How to organize the working day of the store managers ❓

It’s not easy to organize your day at work. But it is even more difficult to organize the working day of your subordinates, for example, the store managers of the retail network.

How to create standards of professional conduct ❓

A strong service culture is the key to customer loyalty, but it does not occur by itself. Let’s talk about how to create and maintain it.

How to create checklists for the retail network that will work ❓

The main thing is that regular assessment of the network branches’ activity should be systematic and have maximum coverage: operations, employee responsibilities, etc. How do this?

Checklists for gas stations ☝️ — a convenient self-monitoring tool for the branch

We have prepared another article for you, this time about the benefits of using checklist methodology in the gas stations network.

How QVALON builds internal communications ❓

In any company there are issues in communication between employees. This task can be solved by organizing regular operational audits.

How to increase the efficiency of a partnership

Businesses can rarely exist without partnerships. Regular monitoring of joint work will make it more effective, and there is one important thing to consider.

What to learn from luxury brands ❓

A large budget gives the maximum space for experiments, and the mass market takes over the most successful concepts.

Extend the scope of using QVALON ☝️

QVALON was designed for use within the company to monitor compliance with corporate standards. However, that doesn’t mean the system can only be used this way. QVALON’s capabilities are much wider.

Why audits don’t work ❓

If a manager is dissatisfied with the work of a retail network, he/she may resort to having company audits performed, hoping to correct the situation. However, even the most thorough audits won’t yield results if you forget about two important factors.

Why a store may not measure performance against KPIs ❓

If a store does not measure performance against KPIs, it could be the manager’s fault, as well as the circumstances beyond his control. We’ll figure out how to separate one from the other.

6 differences between checklists and surveys in QVALON ☝️

QVALON has two tools that may seem similar at first glance but solve completely different issues. We will talk about checklists and surveys.

Fashion retail: ☝️ from the Warehouse to the Sales Floor

In this article, we’ll take a look at 2 of the most important areas in any Fashion Retail business-the warehouse, and the Sales Floor.

QVALON Is A Fashion Retail Operational Process Navigator ❗️

In this article we describe in detail how QVALON can be used in fashion stores and the peculiarities of operating activity in fashion stores.

How to track the performance of a store manager ❓

Monitoring the executive discipline of subordinates is an important task for any manager. Everyone solves it differently. QVALON offers another way of doing things that has several advantages over others.

Simplify work and minimize errors ☝️

It is not a secret that even in the active working rhythm of a sales network manager there are still monotonous routine operations that take up precious hours to solve global problems. QVALON has one less problem like this.

QVALON does increase your revenues

We are often asked if QVALON can affect the company’s financial results. Of course, it can be done most positively, if the system is properly managed.

It’s time for an operational audit ❗️

Do you know when an operational audit is needed? What are the signs that the company has growth points to work on? If not, then this article is for you. Maybe it’s time for your company to conduct an operational audit.

Six steps to the successful implementation of QVALON ☝️

The challenge for any innovation is to bring practical benefits to business as quickly as possible. Each company goes through its own time cycle to achieve results, however, there are those that can move faster than others. The secret is using the right innovation algorithm. If you want to start benefiting from QVALON as quickly as possible, this article is for you.

Application of the QVALON system at the production plant

In our new article, we will tell you about the introduction of checklists at industrial enterprises. How, to whom and why QVALON can be useful in this industry.