Retail Ready: The Ultimate Guide to Successfully Launching Your Product in Stores is a comprehensive guidebook for entrepreneurs and product owners who want to launch their products in retail stores. The book covers a wide range of topics, including understanding your market, product packaging and branding, pricing strategy, distribution strategies, finding retail buyers, pitching your product, negotiating with retail buyers, fulfillment and order management, and scaling your retail strategy.
Through practical advice and real-life examples, the book provides a step-by-step approach to help readers build relationships with retailers and develop a winning product strategy. It also covers the costs associated with packaging and branding and offers insights into pricing strategies that will help entrepreneurs make a profit.
Retail Ready, is authored by a seasoned retail consultant and entrepreneur, making it a valuable resource for anyone seeking success in the highly competitive retail industry. With over 25 years of experience as a buyer, category manager, and category director, the author offers valuable insights on what it takes to launch a product and ensure its success in the market. Having worked with vendors and suppliers of various sizes, the author's knowledge of the challenges and opportunities associated with launching a product is second to none. The book concludes with a concise summary of key takeaways and a call to action, encouraging readers to apply their newfound knowledge in practice.