Notes on planning, buying and the data underneath.
Mostly things that go wrong in planning processes and why — written for merchants and planners rather than for other consultants.
article-planning-on-potential.html is a complete, styled article you
can copy for each post: duplicate the file, rename it, replace the body, then add
a card here pointing to it. Publish the full text on your own site and link
from LinkedIn to here rather than the other way round — otherwise LinkedIn
keeps all the search value and you keep none of it. The three cards below are
drafted from themes in your work; swap them for your real posts.
Your best seller sold out in week 6. What did it cost you?
Sales history records what you sold, which is a number capped by what you had. Plan forward from it and you inherit last year's stockouts as this year's forecast. Here's how to measure the gap instead of guessing at it.
Read the article → Buying · TODO: dateTODO: post title
TODO: paste a two-sentence excerpt from the LinkedIn post here. Keep it to the hook — enough that someone knows whether they want to read on.
Read the article → Data · TODO: dateTODO: post title
TODO: paste a two-sentence excerpt from the LinkedIn post here.
Read the article → Systems · TODO: dateTODO: post title
TODO: paste a two-sentence excerpt from the LinkedIn post here.
Read the article →Most of this starts on LinkedIn.
Shorter thoughts get posted there first and end up here when they're worth keeping.
Recognize the problem?
If any of this sounds like your season, it's worth half an hour.