Send us a text What’s the fastest and easiest way to grow your convenience store sales without breaking budgets? Answer: SMPs---Strategic Marketing Promotions. SMPs create and communicate your convenience value to customers, then differentiate your stores to beat out competitors for sales, time after time. It’s awesome. But here’s a secret…successf…

Send us a text When you learn to see... •The convenience industry and its' customers DIFFERENTLY, •Your store model and retail marketing DIFFERENTLY... ...ONLY THEN can you create new sales and growth opportunities. Let's explore: Why doesn't the convenience store industry grow commensurate with the growing importance of convenience in every other …

Send us a text Is putting a radio station that YOU OPERATE inside your convenience store a good retail marketing idea? Is operating a radio station and selling RMN ads on it in your "retail wheelhouse?" Prove it to me. What do your customers say about this? You didn't ask them....? Uh oh. Notes: So here's the one question of the day for the conveni…

Send us a text YOUTUBE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNAm9Xn7U3A In 1517 Martin Luther was so disgruntled with the Church that he wrote and nailed 95 proclamations of reform to the church door in Germany. He was eventually excommunicated by the Pope for heresy. While I don't think the Pope will view my 25 Convenience Store Marketing Proclamations…

Send us a text Learn the secrets and tactics to creating, positioning and marketing convenience store food programs that are different, unique, drive foot traffic and deliver high profits. These are the retail marketing tactics I developed for retailers like Sheetz, Uni Marts, and others. You Tube link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKxvD0kYphI ht…

Send us a text Content from my upcoming book: The Perfect Storm How I Reinvented Convenience Store Marketing At Sheetz by Tim Lazor YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hphbBVHw0C8&t=14s Principle 1. Decide On—Then Protect --Your ‘Proactive’ Marketing Mindset Only you can do this. You must decide to always have a proactive marketing-first minds…

The Rest of America | In part 3 of this 3-part special, U.S. presidential candidate Steve Laffey talks about how to create employment opportunities for Americans using all available sources of energy and manufacturing, while cutting spending and balancing the budget, real things that the U.S. government has so far failed to do. Critics of the forme…

The Rest of America | In part 2 of this 3-part special, U.S. presidential candidate Steve Laffey talks about how to fix America with Investment and bringing back the middle class while uplifting the poor. Steve is a Republican who everyone claims, has the longest of the longshot to the U.S. presidency, but Steve says he’s still going to take that s…

The Rest of America EP4 part 1 of 3 | Steve Laffey, the former mayor of Cranston, Rhode Island, and the previous head of a billion-dollar financial firm Morgan Keegan is also a small cattle and horse rancher. Steve says he knows the pulse of Americans and how they're hurting as he himself experienced the frustrations of slowly losing his property r…

Jack and Anne Lazor of Westfield Vermont, along with their family are raising grass-fed cows producing natural dairy at the Butterworks Farm in the mountains of Vermont's Northeast Kingdom. Credits | @StuckinVermont | Eva Sollberger and Soul of the Soil | André Costantini | VT Public | Global Crossover | The Rest of America.…

Tim and Joy Alexander of Amelia County, together with their children, are utilizing Raw Milk to bring a change in many lives, from Avery’s Branch Farms in Amelia Courthouse Virginia. https://www.globalcrossover.com/the-rest-of-america #RawMilk #GlobalCrossoverBy Imran Siddiqui

Jesse Straight from Fauquier County in Virginia, John Spiezio from New York City, and Imran Siddiqui from Washington D.C. at the Whiffletree Farm in Warrenton Virginia. Politics don't live here. Empathy does. #TheRestOfAmerica #GlobalCrossover | https://www.globalcrossover.com/the-rest-of-americaBy Imran Siddiqui

The Rest of America is a documentary series rediscovering the lives of over 100 million Americans who are underreported by state and corporate media. Walk across the continent with fellow Americans who actually run America. A Global Crossover Presentation.By Imran Siddiqui

Send us a text In this episode, Convenience Marketing Group President Tim Lazor interviews Luke Maurer. Luke is CEO of Digital Marketing firm Ad Giraffe AND owner of BJ Maurer Ford Dealership. He brings a 1-2 marketing punch and perspective to the C-Store Industry when he discusses: The essential, but sometimes taken-for-granted role cars play in t…

Send us a text SHOW NOTES: How Your Retail Marketing Should Be Driving Sales… Step #1 Uncover The New Value Your Company Creates. You might be surprised Not features and benefits, old school. Situations. Value feels like something specific Around a problem define it. Specific and innovative program of solutions that make problem go away Step #2 The…

Send us a text How To Create C-Store Point-Of-Sale Campaigns That Crush It & Grow Sales In 9 Steps. The Three FOUNDATIONAL Questions 1. What do you believe about your convenience stores that make them unique and different from competitors? And what is your specific point of view about the convenience store industry and its customers today? 2. What …

Send us a text 17 Reasons You Don’t Use Marketing To Grow Your Convenience Store Sales & Customer Counts. (All Are Mistakes) 1. You don’t know how to begin. 2. You don’t understand modern retail marketing concepts and tactics. 3. You don’t want to. 4. You don’t think it’s needed. 5. You think it’s a waste of money. 6. You think it’s an expense. 7. …

Send us a text 10 Questions with Tim Lazor, President of The Convenience Marketing Group Tim Lazor, along with host Joan Zaczyk, discuss the value of a creating a Podcast focussed on marketing in the convenience industry. They cover the need for Retailers, Distributors and Suppliers to differentiate their companies, products and services, and how t…

Send us a text The Coronavirus Crisis Continues... New protocols are being implemented by states... And it's wreaking havoc on convenience stores, convenience distributors and suppliers/manufacturers supplying the channel. It's also reconfiguring the industry and how it operates. Employees are concerned. Convenience Stores are at risk of closing if…