Stuart Conroy

£10 million is the average budget size of eTail Connect Autumn attendees! Contact me for full investment profiling information, and details of the 1-to-1 sponsorship packages. eTail Connect Autumn, 24th & 25th September #etail #ecommerce #retail #ukretail #retailtechnology #retailtech #omnichannelretail #ecommercesolutions

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This morning I revisited one of the tools we have built here at SQCDP.co.uk to calculate Return On Investment for a potential customer that has just a small team. We've done a lot of work with SME's and enterprise-level customers where efficiency savings are pretty high due to their accumulation of process waste and costs. Our app creates high value straight away for SME's and can be observed longer term with an impact on team engagement too. For smaller customers the ROI has to be clearer and this is why we offer trials in order to prove out the benefits within just a few weeks. Let one of us know if you are thinking of digitising your factory floor so we can calculate your ROI

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ROI is easy with our handy calculator, saving you from a huge headache when pulling together all of the rationale for #digitising your shop-floor. Get in touch if your team are inefficient due to factory paperwork and pulling information together for daily reviews. Think about the cost of not digitising and where this affects your business, team and customer performance. We can help.

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Highly Successful POS Printed Display - Company for Sale Vexus.co.uk is exclusively appointed to find a full or partial buyer for a leading 3D point-of-sale (POS) display company. With over 15 years in the business, this company has established itself as a top designer and producer of complex 3D POS displays. Serving a wide range of clients from blue-chip brand companies to small independent businesses, they offer tailored solutions for diverse needs. Financial Highlights Turnover: Approximately £8 million EBITDA: Over £800,000 Forecast: Revenue is expected to surpass £10 million this year, supported by a robust order book Growth Capacity: Significant potential for further organic growth leveraging existing infrastructure Established Business with Experienced Leadership The company benefits from a loyal and experienced management team that efficiently handles daily operations. The current owner is committed to ensuring a smooth transition and offers a comprehensive handover period, with the possibility of an extended transition if required. Reason for Sale Having successfully grown the business, the owner believes now is an ideal time for it to join a larger organisation. This transition would provide the expertise and resources necessary for international expansion and entry into new markets, unlocking further growth potential. The Opportunity We are seeking an acquirer with the experience and resources to elevate this business to the next level. This opportunity is ideal for buyers looking for a synergistic 'bolt-on' acquisition. The existing infrastructure offers considerable capacity for expansion, making it a solid platform for future growth. Key Features Include: Established, proven business model Strong goodwill and industry reputation Highly profitable, growth-oriented business Scalable with room for expansion Experienced management team in place Comprehensive handover period available Summary This is a rare opportunity to acquire a well-established, profitable, and highly professional business. The vendor is offering 100% of the business shares to a suitable buyer with the vision, expertise, and energy to elevate the company to new heights. Partial sales will also be considered. A full and mutually agreeable support and transition period will be provided, with the vendor open to an extended handover to ensure a seamless transfer. Next Steps For more information, please DM me quoting Ref: VEX00878 or visit www.vexus.co.uk #smebusiness #exitplanning #printingbusiness #founders #retirementsale

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GET YOUR BUSINESS ONLINE WITH OUR Done With You 10% OFFER NOW! https://lnkd.in/eBWBGzus I am offering my programme for the launch price reduced from £2497 to just £249.70 just 1 tenth of the price. A No Brainer and I really want you to have a complete system by the end of this and a VIP One to One Call. This will have 4 sessions on zoom with me 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd. Each with Q&A sessions. I was there too. How do I create an online course, I don't want another course to tell me how to create a course. Tired of overwhelm and too much information and just want to speak to someone. Let us do this together. 8.30pm to 9.30pm every evening next week. When you sign up you will get the zoom link that we will use for the session so what are you waiting for.  #business #onlinecourse #howto #build #design #elearning #helpme #vip #b2b #zoomclasses #zoomevent #funnels #emails #emailmarketingtips #emailmarketingstrategy #ideas #buildonline #digitaltransformation #digitaltranformationstrategy #ai #chatgpt #budget #planning #lna #gapanalysis #learnhow

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Shop price data out today..... During the height of the cost of living crisis, retailers invested heavily in improving their operations and supply chains to compensate for the impact of global shocks on input costs. This is clearly paying off, with shop prices having risen just 0.2% over the past 12 months. Food inflation is now lower than any time since 2021 helped by falling prices for key products such as butter and coffee. Meanwhile, non-food prices went deeper into deflation as retailers tried to drive sales by discounting. This was particularly true for TVs with great deals to capitalise on the Euros fever.    Whoever wins Thursday’s election will benefit from the work of retailers to cut their costs and prices, easing the cost of living for millions of households. The last few years should serve as a warning that where business costs rise significantly, consumer prices are forced up too. The next Government must address some of the major cost burdens weighing down the retail industry, including the broken business rates system, and inflexible apprenticeship levy. By doing so, retailers can invest in lower prices for the future – helping to reduce the cost of living pressures that many families face. See the full report here 👇 👇 https://lnkd.in/evSkMCQp #retail #buyintoretail

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Can you be TOO customer-centric? 🤔 Back in 2006, the Nintendo Wii was the must-have item of the season, and its popularity didn’t fade after Christmas. So you can imagine our excitement when the Video Games Vendor Manager in the UK secured a full container of consoles. We were so eager to share the good news that we put it directly on the product detail page: “This item will be available for sale on Thursday at 3PM.” What we didn’t anticipate was the scale of demand. At the time, only Books, Music, DVDs, and Video Games could ship out of the UK to the rest of Europe, and we had underestimated how many people would try to snag a Wii that day. Starting around 2:55PM, millions of customers began refreshing their pages, anxiously waiting for that “Buy Now” button. And within minutes, the site went down—first Amazon.co.uk, followed by Amazon.de and Amazon.fr. Even Amazon.com started feeling the effects. We had, quite unintentionally, manufactured a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on Amazon’s global infrastructure. Fortunately, the AWS team jumped into action and brought additional capacity online quickly, minimizing the overall business impact. From that day forward, we learned to avoid announcing high-demand restock events in this way. The takeaway? While being customer-centric is vital, there’s always a balance between meeting customer expectations and maintaining operational stability. Were we too customer-centric that day? I’ll let you be the judge of that! 😉 #CustomerExperience #Ecommerce #SupplyChainChallenges #LeadershipLessons #TechDisruptions #NintendoWii #AmazonOperations #OperationalExcellence #RetailTech #AWS #LessonsLearned

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Q: Where can you find experts in MEWP repairs, servicing, testing, attachments - or for trading-in your used kit when buying new MEWPs? A: mewps.uk 2025 will see wider website and eCommerce store developments to include more #poweredaccess services’ providers joining us. We still welcome 3rd party (and #OEM) advertising, sponsoring, selling products and services on the access-industry bespoke MEWPS Marketplace. We’re a small team with a big opportunity, so platform growth comes in-line with our most-demanded services: currently new + used #scissorlift and #boomlift #sales and #hire supply. But please be rest assured, I’ve invested heavily into creating this first-of-a-kind digital product (and service) that’s 100% here to stay - so we’ll get to you soon! 🇬🇧 mewps.uk | ✔ MEWP Hire | New Sales | Used Sales | Safety Consumables

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Last month I was lucky enough to work with eBay for Business to produce a set of videos to help business sellers prepare for peak season. This is one of the videos produced which went live last week and offers my top tips to maximise sales opportunities during Q4 and into Christmas. If you are an eBay marketplace seller there are a tonne of opportunities to create a strong revenue stream this peak season. More top tips coming soon #ebayreseller #onlineincome #businessseller

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Great article covering the rational of our acquisition by Hi-Tech.

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Heading into London today for the Linnworks Customer User Group Day. If you’re selling on multiple marketplaces and to retailers via the Virtualstock platform and you’re finding it inefficient to access an increasing number of portals every day, then listen up, this may be for you. In simple terms, Linnworks is a connected platform that gives online sellers the power to connect, automate and scale their ecommerce operations from a single source of truth. I’ll share more information later today and I’ll do my best to translate the tech speak into something that you and I understand! If you can’t wait, there’s more on Linnworks here - https://lnkd.in/gYfZbxmB Thanks to Georgia Leybourne for the kind invitation. #ecommerce #marketplaces #digital #retail

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*** Kia NERO EV experience for 12 months *** Seeing all the bad press on EV i wanted to give my 10,000 mile review - note I am a serious petrolhead and have worked in the Automotive events and dealer network sector for 15+ years - as a Digital signage provider and rollouts in UK & Europe to our AirshroudbyCX handoverbay reveal systems in 37 countries - but plugs aside back to EV As i did the AV Rollout for KIA Motors over the last 5 years in Italy, Netherlands, Slovakia and UK - I felt loyal to the brand and purchased top of the range a 23 plate KIA Nero EV - after 12 months and nearly 10,000 miles I couldnt fault a single thing with the car (apart from really poor reversing in the dark with a reversing camera which gets dirty and water on it at a second driving down the road so you cant see a thing) The cost to run - 1st it was purchased thru my company so 100% Tax deducted - so that will offset deprecation a bit but we wont go in to that politics on this post :) It did an average of 230 miles per charge the cost at home to charge was 7p/KWH so no more than £3-£4 to full charge it - when i had to put a charge in at the services it was 80/Kwh and 15 min charge got it to 80% and cost £24 ish. Luckily managed to charge at home most of the time - so at a guess i would say 10,000 miles (circa 41 charges) cost me an estimated £450 for the year Front tyres near levels needing replacement soon so £200 Full warranty and service included - £0 So its cost £650 + vehicle depreciation - The car cost £42k (less tax relief cost approx £35k) Autotrader have similar listed for £29k - so its so far £6k depreciation year 1 - which isnt bad really The experience of the EV charge network is the problem if you dont / cant have a home charger - our town has 4 charge points for 15000+ residents The motorway network was getting better but so many out of order or only slow chargers - apps direct you to one and wrong app, cant use etc - became frustrating at times. KIA's own Charge app directed to private ones in schools and behind gates - totally pointless. Other than the occasional issue in the initial months on chargers - I have to say big thumbs up year 1 !! Get one with a heatpump and heated seats - the range didnt drop much on the KIA in winter. Oh and finally nowhere does the sales patter say, you will end up buying a cake and a coffee whilst charging so EV's will make you fat :)

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There are lessons to be learnt here. Simple price cutting and quantity shifting does not equal a sustainable and profitable organisation. Digitalisation is a vital and indeed critical step to business succession in todays landscape, but once again this too must be rigoursly tested to ensure all the correct procedures and steps are in place to safeguard both the customers and supplier relationships.

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How does MEWPS.UK work in terms of Partnering for Equipment Online Selling, Equipment Hiring & Services Promotion/Advertising? A good question which we'll answer over various posts... ...explaining how MEWPS.UK is a 'Managed Service' eCommerce Marketplace Platform, branded to each member, offering a level of connectivity and brand connection that has never been created before in #Access #Sales #Rental or #IPAF Training, for example... I advise getting in touch now so we can explore ways in which we can help list your products and services (plus spread your business good news for (free)), tailoring 'self-financing' Membership Package with very affordable listing fees... Please visit us and let's start a conversation: https://mewps.uk

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Hey, hope the week isn't being rough with you in the factory and you have the data you need to make decisions to keep improving. If you're finding you're stuck with too much processing of spreadsheets, data entry and paperwork though give us a look through the SQCDP website (Just Google SQCDP). We can get you access to work out your own business case for using our app so that you can justify a free trial and then rollout. Not only will you see improvements on the bottom line, the team will feel the difference as they become connected to the organisation through clarity on where your main issues are and what/who is working on them. Want to improve even more? Send me a direct message here and I'll look at the enhanced features with you so you can see just how much progress you could make "just by downloading the app!"

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Is Asda’s huge IT overhaul on track? Asda is working on what it terms “Europe’s largest IT transformation project” but it has been far from smooth sailing. Retail Gazette looks at what has caused the issues and whether the short-term pain will lead to long-term gain. #aldi #IT #AI #transformation #issue #changemanagement #investment

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Worth a look if you want to take your business to the next level

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