Originally I continued to sell domestic designer brands as a speciality shop salesperson and I won the No.1 monthly sales by three months after joining the company among about 250 salespeople at that time, and I became the earliest and youngest manager of a highest budget store.After that, I left the company and became housewife after receiving an MVP of the year, then started posting on Instagram, so I arrived an option to start own business.
Currently, I published two Instagram-management books, and as a visual creator, I generate scheme and creativity for strengthen that department stores and brands connect with customers.
Against this background, I was thinking about what I should best convey to designer, but I would like to explain in detail the "planning" on Instagram.
This project means the "Viewpoint of styling proposals".For example, in Japan, rainy season and in February and August when the sale ends, the number of customers rapidly decrease, we are worried about how to sell the off-season.People of EC and wholesaler sales might have imagined that you can handle anything as much as you want if you have a store, but in reality there is a limit to what you can do only in the store.
When I was a store manager, I thought about VMDs that would catch customer's eyes when the number of customer was small, and such as measures to increase set sales and role playing to strengthen staff, used my spare time and time after the store closed, we have been working to "customers who have come", but that did not reach in a increase in the number of customer fundamentally. In other words, instead of trying to do something in the store, when thinking about "what to do when we can't meet the customer", we have a tool of Instagram that we can connect without meeting.
Now let's think about what Instagram can do when the rainy days continue. First,
Imagine how your customers feel on a rainy day.
"I can't wear my favorite shoes because it gets dirty on a rainy day."
"I can't wear clothes that are difficult to wash and dry because of the high humidity.”etc. it's more limited than usual and it can't enjoy your favorite fashion.On the other hand,I feel that there are many customers who want to wear clothes that pump them up that’s way it is a rainy day.
In that case, customers may be happy if they have "fashionable sneakers that can be worn even on rainy days," "luxury items that can be washed easily," and "colorful tops that chase away the depressed mood." Imagine a planning that would make customers happy.
If you can post like this, you will be able to get close to customer's depressed mood and help them to feel better.
No matter how much talk about good points of the products you make, you can’t "Relevance" them. However, if you are considerate of someone customer's feelings , it will reach. Who and when do you want your product to be worn? While imagining such things every day, if you who the designer, continue to send out on Instagram and SNS, you will definitely meet customers who have high enthusiasm. At first, I think it happen that you will give up because the results don't come out immediately, but daily activities are important for operation on Instagram and SNS.
"Goodness of products" is nothing special now. Moreover, can you adopt your brand and make customer's life and feelings come true?
I hope that you will focus on making clothes and sending out clothes while thinking about such things every day.
One year later, I wish you a better future than now.
The future myself is be made by current myself.
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