7 Transferable Skills a Visual Merchandiser Should Have

On my previous post, I mentioned several creative skills a visual merchandiser should have and now, here are seven more skills a visual merchandiser should posses – the soft skills for visual merchandisers.

10 Creative Skills a Visual Merchandiser Should Have

 

To entice the customers to come in your store and buy is the primary goal of visual merchandiser; the window and internal display and other merchandising of promotional events will help you do that. 

And, to make sure that you become effective on doing it, here are the following skills you needed:

10 Simple Basic Table Skirting Design for Beginners

Table skirting has been an essential part of special events. It is an art of covering a table with cloth and other appropriate decorative materials with a purpose of hiding the legs of the table and concealing the things below the table.

Table skirting designs or sometimes referred as table skirting style varies depending upon the availability of cloth length and skills of the table skirter. It could be a simple single pleats, combinations of different kinds of pleats or more complicated designs.

How To Be a Visual Merchandiser: Here are 5 Points

It's either you are on the process of choosing a right profession or you want to shift from your current job to a new career path, here are five points to guide you.

6 Types of Window Display According to Style

You might have seen different types of window display and even take photos of them but you have not tried classifying them according to their type. Today, you can identify each of them if which type of window display do they belong.

1. Realism

It is a type of window that shows things exactly as they appear in life. Dummies and mockups are being used instead of models. This is the most common type of window display and is often used in furniture and home furnishing shops.

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Cloth Styling Techniques on Visual Merchandising

Cloth styling is an easy activity when you are familiar with some techniques on dealing with fabric, one of the good decorative props I can recommend which you can use on your display, may it be a window display or an indoor display.

Lighting Tips to Give Your Shop Display a Kick

When I was young and my mother comes home from the wet market then say that the prices of the fish in the market is geeting expesive, she would immediately add more line saying that it is because the fishermen could hardly catch fishes because fullmoon is coming.

Do you know the relationship between fishing and fullmoon?

Readability: Right Size of Text on a Signage

Maybe you heard that the size of the words or texts in your marketing material, whether it’s a signage outside your store or a shelf-talker inside you, should be big enough for the consumers to read even from a distant point. But, how big is that big enough?

List Visual Merchandising and Window Display Themes

Thinking and searching of what theme to use for your next window display or visual merchandising activity every week or every month is exhausting. It would help you save your budget and time if you have planned your visual merchandising activities for the whole year because you would know which materials to purchase in bulk and are to be used on the next project.

9 Visual Merchandising Tips That Never Fade

Visual merchandising (VM) today is not only limited to floor and window display; it is not only limited to fashion and clothing. Visual Merchandising covers all the necessity to capture the attention of the customers by all means from the facade of the store to the location of each product inside the store – may it be a department or specialty store.

2 Things 'Gangnam Style' Can Teach Us About Visual Merchandising

The first time my friend posted a link of the music video of Gangnam Style on my Facebook, I did't give significant attention on it because I thought that I was a spam – not until Rom Salvar asked me an information about the song.

I pressume that you have heard this 2012 K-pop single by the South Korean rapper PSY, but if you have not, have a time to watch its music video on YouTube.

As of this post, its official music videdo in YouTube has 159,710,785 views, 732,319 comments and 611,976 favourites. Even notable artists like Robbie Williams, Simon Pegg and Josh Groban have talked about Gangnam Style. So what it can teach us about visual merchandising?

3 Things Brave Movie can Teach Us about Retailing

Brave is a 2012 American 3D computer-animated fantasy adventure film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures.

If you have not seen the movie, I would suggest that you read the plot of the story so that you can relate on what I will be talking about on this post.