April 2020 - AllWork

Moving Forward, Retail Requires Efficiency

Post author:web-designer
Post published:April 21, 2020
Post category:Industry News

To say the least, COVID-19 has wreaked havoc on the retail industry over the past few weeks. In fact, more than 47,000 retail stores closing in just the first week because of the virus. While the closures happened quickly, the process of reopening retail will require a slow and methodical approach. With such a massive blow to the industry, retailers, and brands who sell into these retailers, can’t afford anything less than efficiency and effectiveness when it comes to managing their staff.

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Beauty Industry Hiring Resource Guide

Post author:web-designer
Post published:April 13, 2020
Post category:Career Advice

While hiring efforts may be at a stand-still for most of the beauty industry, we’ve already begun speaking to many of our clients on how to approach restart and reengage the beauty industry once they’re ready to regroup and get back to retail sales.

Professionally, the industry has certainly taken a hit and many brands may be missing key sales talent when stores reopen. In response, we wanted to share with everyone a curated list of communities and resources, both free and paid, that you and your team can use to find top beauty talent.

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Succeeding at Retail: 10 Best Practices You Should Adopt Now

Post author:web-designer
Post published:April 6, 2020
Post category:Industry News Trends

As COVID-19 continues to impact the retail industry, the AllWork team has been working closely with our brand partners and while most retail locations across the country remain closed, we’ve used this time to take a look back at what we have learned over the past year from working with over 50 beauty brands. We have aggregated some of the best practices that have helped these brands get ahead and succeed at retail by managing their in-store talent efficiently.

These best practices are based on working with teams of thousands of beauty advisors, event staff, and managers. By creating this checklist, we are hoping to share the most impactful strategies and the things that the best-managed programs do differently to help increase retail sales, improve customer engagement and improve the ROI on labor spend.

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