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Retailers sometimes face a lot of challenges in reaching their target audience effectively. Implementing solid marketing strategies can help them make a significant difference in engaging customers and boosting sales. Here are ten marketing strategies that retailers can employ to improve their reach and impact.

Local retail businesses play a vital role in neighbourhoods and communities, offering a unique touch that large chains and big brands often miss. With the right marketing strategies, local retailers can attract new customers, retain existing ones and cultivate a sense of community that brings long-term loyalty.

Let us explore a range of creative and budget-friendly marketing tactics specifically suited for local retail businesses.

Black Friday and similar global fire sales are examples of marketing gone horribly wrong. To me they seem to bring out the worst in humanity; fights over televisions, people stepping on fellow human beings just to get to the deal quicker, ugly language and uglier behaviour all in the name of a bargain.

After Thanksgiving, a holiday in which life is celebrated, it seems the thanks is forgotten and the giving expected not earned.

There are a lot of retailers out there hurting - real bad! With a global financial crisis, it seems that retailers have been hardest hit and on top of that, the added burden of new marketing techniques seem to be almost impossible to keep up with. It also doesn't help that online sales of retail products seem to be all the go and quite often consumers can get the same product, cheaper from Asia or the US, just by buying online.

However, there is some positive news. With the Retailers Association pushing consumers to go back to buying from  local shops and Xmas just weeks away, retail should be on the 'up'.