Nicky's Blog
BACK TO BEING 16 YESTERDAY…. (and JUST as good at selling SHOES)..
AS I WAS nearly 40 years ago (yep) at PETER LORD in Huddersfield. The feel of the boxes, the putting shoes on and taking shoes off customers…took me back to the start. We were 14% up on target in the shoe shop at the centre i’m on with at the moment- doubling the previous weeks [...]
MASSIVE big up to DAVEY WAVEY…….
I worked with a great bloke today. 26 and worked in retail for 6 years. For the 1st time he went out leafleting alone (clearly uncomfortable) – without me or anyone else doing the TALKING. I stayed in the shop waiting to see what happened – and do you know what DID happen??? A steady [...]
VERY profound….
I had forgotton the power of applying yourself to a retail situation!!! How simple when you know the formula (and there IS a formula) of connecting people to an idea. Why would anyone but anything unless the IDEA of that product or service had been SOLD to them FIRST??? LAST WEEK i spent 2 days [...]
ANOTHER sad goodbye….
My life has so many HIYA and GOODBYES ….but this one has really GOT to me. I had the privelage of finding that special ”space” for some great people in Colorado this last 4 days – and did a couple of rocking gigs where the good folks of the U.S. were VERY generous with their [...]
FLYING OVER KANSAS…..
WAS JUST AMAZING. The vastness and the remoteness if the ”U.S. ‘BREADBASKET’…. HOW DID those wagon trains get over those plains in the 1800′s??? The jetlag is getting me at the moment – (in DENVER COLORADO) ..but my gigs here are getting massive reveiws – so i wouldn’t be able to sleep anyway. To say [...]
My friend of 33 years got married on Saturday…
It was a secret affair so i can’t name them (how ROMANTIC)….. just immeadiate family and me and DHANI BOY. I started to cry as i read my ”few lines”….. NEVER happened before – but this was different. Me and that particular friend have lived through many traumatic days together – but this was not [...]
WHY DO I NOT GIVE ONE about others opinion of what i ”DO”???
3 days into working with a select group of stores on a discount retail site…. I can’t WAIT to get there there today. They are GREAT PEOPLE – after the airport i thought i’d never meet a group like it again ….but WOW. Made me welcome from the 1st second. WHY DON’T I GIVE A [...]
UP and off to my new project…..
This morning i’m meeting a Brisbane business man to see if theres a way we can do something in Australia – then this afternoon i start at a very well known discount shopping centre. FIRST GIG is one of the cafes there – (please GOD they let ME spray the tables when i get in [...]