November 9, 2016

Asher Helps SUBWAY® Celebrate “Life’s Important Days”

November 9, 2016

Asher Helps SUBWAY® Celebrate “Life’s Important Days”

The Quick Service Restaurant (QSR) category–especially legacy brands–had been experiencing soft sales for several years. Asher client SUBWAY® restaurants, for example, had suffered from four years of declining sales and traffic. Competitors were luring away customers and stealing market share. They were encroaching from every angle, including convenience stores and grocery stores. SUBWAY® was at a critical juncture.

The executive team at SUBWAY® identified a plan to launch an Every Day Value platform to lure back lapsed customers and increase frequency of existing customers. It was a $3.50 Sub of the Day (SOTD).
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November 2, 2016

Worth a Thousand Words: The Rise of the Visual Internet

November 2, 2016

Worth a Thousand Words: The Rise of the Visual Internet

For four years, I worked for the nation’s second largest hardware store co-op, with 3,600 stores around the world. As e-commerce manager, it was my job to build and maintain each store’s online identity and work with owners and managers to tell their stories online. When I would ask them to share what made them different, I usually heard long, detailed accounts of their history—how, for example, their father’s father started a business that survived for 30, 40, or 50 years. While all these stories were great, they did little to nothing to increase sales or bring people into the store.

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