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As an award winning retail and shopper marketing strategist, with over 25 years of…
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Why Offbeat Donuts Is Decidedly Upbeat & On Trend For The Modern Shopper
Why Offbeat Donuts Is Decidedly Upbeat & On Trend For The Modern Shopper
By Sharon Yourell Lawlor
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Back To School: A Golden Opportunity for Brands and Retailers
Back To School: A Golden Opportunity for Brands and Retailers
By Sharon Yourell Lawlor
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SIRA - A Guide To Making The Irish Retail Sector More Sustainable Through Sustainable Irish Retail Action
SIRA - A Guide To Making The Irish Retail Sector More Sustainable Through Sustainable Irish Retail Action
By Sharon Yourell Lawlor
Contributions
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You're facing conflicting opinions on project strategy. How do you align your team for success?
Bring all parties together so that there’s a clear unified review table. Start with a reminder of what the end goal(s) of the project is/are and an outline of success by achieving this. Give each voice at the table an opportunity to articulate their clear direction to achieve these goals and their views of pros/cons for that approach. Get group consensus on the reflection of ideas that synergies towards the end goal and on potential negatives that ‘group reflection’ has raised. Stress testing the negatives of the pros and the positives of the cons can often allow stakeholders to get to better consensus quicker.
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What are the advantages of using micro-influencers for retail marketing?
Micro influencers often offer a more authentic and deeper perspective on brands and services and engagement with their audience net. There’s a more personal feel in these smaller communities that is respected for honesty and unswayed by ‘paid for’ endorsements of brands. Often these influencers are truly passionate about the subjects they share content on and this lends itself to further credibility when products or services are liked and endorsed. The fact that they’re less hand bound around calling out negative experiences furthers the ‘authenticity’ of their opinions.
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How can you communicate sustainability in retail customer experience?
An Irish entrepreneur, Sharon Keilthy, founder of a business called Jiminny’s Ecotoys has a famous quote ‘we can’t expect people to do good if good isn’t on the shelf’. As businesses look to developing more sustainable product offerings, business practices and retail strategies, they must look to put good on the shelf, with great storytelling at the heart of it all. To really engage with shoppers, sustainability alone isn’t enough. The offering needs to provide better availability, visibility, attractiveness, be convenient to shop and be affordable to more people. To ensure success, storytelling needs to be compelling so that the audience is brought with the brand on its sustainability journey, not lost along the way.
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I saw this gym entrance in central London last week and thought how effectively they utilized their logo with striking lighting. Barry's has this…
I saw this gym entrance in central London last week and thought how effectively they utilized their logo with striking lighting. Barry's has this…
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If there is one part of the job that I love, it's keynote speaking on the topic of the evolving retail landscape and how brands and retailers need to…
If there is one part of the job that I love, it's keynote speaking on the topic of the evolving retail landscape and how brands and retailers need to…
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The other day, I witnessed something cool while working at the LEGO Store 🧱. Two young children, a boy and a girl, approached me at the register…
The other day, I witnessed something cool while working at the LEGO Store 🧱. Two young children, a boy and a girl, approached me at the register…
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Experience
Education
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Dublin City University
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•Placed in the top 5% of graduating 1997 Business Studies Class
•Completed dissertation of Brand Loyalty in Mayonnaise Market, achieving a 1:1 on Thesis, achieving top thesis result in the class -
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Licenses & Certifications
Volunteer Experience
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Founding Chairperson (2016 - 2021) and Committee Member
Today's Women In Grocery (TWIG), a sub-committee of the Irish Grocer's Benevolent Fund
- Present 8 years 8 months
Disaster and Humanitarian Relief
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Guest Speaker
UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School
- Present 9 years 9 months
Education
Guest speaker, presenting to Marketing Development Programme class on the On The Go consumer, and the benefits to a business of understanding the consumer's needs and motivations, and turning key insights around the consumer into tangible actions. As part of the the 'Shadow Day' programme, also brought a number of the students to Ballygowan's factory in Newcastle West, Co. Limerick.
Publications
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Retail Marketing Strategy
LinkedIn Learning
The LinkedIn Learning course on Retail Marketing Strategy is designed for those working with brands who are looking to develop more effective retail marketing strategies. Successful brands and retailers are successful because they clearly understand the journeys their customers take when making different purchase decisions, and they develop product solutions and advise retail strategies that meet the needs of their customers. In this 40 minute course and using real-world examples and lessons…
The LinkedIn Learning course on Retail Marketing Strategy is designed for those working with brands who are looking to develop more effective retail marketing strategies. Successful brands and retailers are successful because they clearly understand the journeys their customers take when making different purchase decisions, and they develop product solutions and advise retail strategies that meet the needs of their customers. In this 40 minute course and using real-world examples and lessons from Sharon's own career, she takes you through the foundations of shopper marketing and share how to create a retail strategy that will successfully guide your shoppers along the path to purchase. If you're looking to pursue a career in shopper marketing, or just better understand how to guide and influence consumers on their purchase journey, join Sharon to learn more about retail marketing from the shopper's perspective.
Projects
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Delivering Effective Shopper Engagement Workshop Training
Delivering a comprehensive and practical workshop, with Stephen Rust from Engage, using the principles of the globally successful book ‘The Shopper Marketing Revolution’, to help professionals grow their business through more effective shopper engagement!
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Chairperson of 'Today's Women In Grocery', a subcommittee of the Irish Grocer's Benevolent Fund
“The Irish Grocers Benevolent Fund (IGBF) has been serving the Irish grocery industry since 1981, providing essential financial relief to people within the Grocery Trade and their families when facing hardships. The IGBF also has a long networking history of ‘helping to‘ create connections’ for people working in the Irish Grocery industry.The various events, which it holds around the country to raise charitable funds, offer people the opportunity to meet and promote their companies with fellow…
“The Irish Grocers Benevolent Fund (IGBF) has been serving the Irish grocery industry since 1981, providing essential financial relief to people within the Grocery Trade and their families when facing hardships. The IGBF also has a long networking history of ‘helping to‘ create connections’ for people working in the Irish Grocery industry.The various events, which it holds around the country to raise charitable funds, offer people the opportunity to meet and promote their companies with fellow suppliers and retailers.“With more and more women working in the grocery industryin Ireland, at all levels, it is important to ensure networking opportunities that appeal to ‘Today’s women in Grocery’. TWIG’s aim is to create more networking connections for women in grocery and to have more women taking a lead role within the IGBF, raising valuable funds for those who have fallen on hard times’.”
To launch the new initiative, TWIG will kick off its work with a Grocery Networking
Lunch for 160 women on 16 September 2016. The theme for this unique and unmissable event
within the grocery trade will be ‘Creating Connections’. The aim is to to give women in the trade an opportunity to connect, and listen to and listen to the inspirational stories of a number of guest speakers and their experience of ‘Creating Connections’ in their careers.
To launch the new initiative, TWIG will kick off its work with a Grocery Networking
Lunch for 160 women on 16 September 2016. The theme for this unique and unmissable event
within the grocery trade will be ‘Creating Connections’. The aim is to to give women in the trade an opportunity to connect, and listen to and listen to the inspirational stories of a number of guest speakers and their experience of ‘Creating Connections’ in their careers.Other creatorsSee project -
DCU Part-Time Lecturing - Sales and Customer Relationship Management in Dublin City University Business School
From Feb - May 2016, I am delivering a 12 week module to a mix of 172 Undergrad students in a number of business disciplines in the DCU Business School. The course is designed to give students an introduction to the principles and practices of sales management and examines its role within the marketing discipline. The module looks at the personal selling process and sales responsibility. In addition, the course covers the selection, motivation and training of sales personnel and focuses on…
From Feb - May 2016, I am delivering a 12 week module to a mix of 172 Undergrad students in a number of business disciplines in the DCU Business School. The course is designed to give students an introduction to the principles and practices of sales management and examines its role within the marketing discipline. The module looks at the personal selling process and sales responsibility. In addition, the course covers the selection, motivation and training of sales personnel and focuses on both commercial and industrial channels. This course adopts a customer relationship management perspective and covers the journey from the initial stage of customer prospecting to sales acquisition and customer retention and management in quest of company profitability and long-term success by building customer relationships. My approach to the delivery of this module is to give the students a thorough overview of the selling and CRM process, through a mix of theory and my 20 years experience of business practice, in both sales and marketing.
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New Ballygowan Water Cooler Value Proposition and Sales Communications Tools
Ballygowan Water Cooler Value Proposition: Development of a clear Value Proposition for Britvic’s workplace channel division – New Commercial Proposition and sales communications tools, relevant for both field and desktop selling. This required doing a diagnostic of the End to End process from Ballygowan water's source to bottle process through to our customer, delivery and sanitisation service, to clearly articulate development of a new proposition, based on workplace wellbeing, quality…
Ballygowan Water Cooler Value Proposition: Development of a clear Value Proposition for Britvic’s workplace channel division – New Commercial Proposition and sales communications tools, relevant for both field and desktop selling. This required doing a diagnostic of the End to End process from Ballygowan water's source to bottle process through to our customer, delivery and sanitisation service, to clearly articulate development of a new proposition, based on workplace wellbeing, quality positioning, and compelling price bundles.
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Keynote Speaker 'Food On The Move' Dublin Food Chain Event
Food On The Move event was organised by Fingal Local Enterprise Office, as part of Fingal Enterprise Week 2014, in conjunction with the Dublin Food Chain. I was one of a number of speakers on the night, offering expert insight into the On The Go consumer's needs and trends.
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Project Breakthrough - An In-depth Study of the On The Go Lifestyles of Irish Consumers
Post the purring of the Celtic tiger, the Irish Consumer and their habits have changed dramatically. We conducted an in-depth study into the lifestyles of different consumer types, to understand their shopper missions, develop key insights and ultimately translate those insights into retail solutions.
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Sustainable Irish Retail Action (SIRA) Handbook Guide
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The Sustainable Irish Retail Action (SIRA) Handbook is a guide which I co-wrote with Claire Cogan, for the Irish retail sector in 2022 to help raise the standards around ‘Sustainability Understanding and Practice’ within the Irish retail industry.
The guide was developed for the Irish retail sector to help retailers take practical steps to make their businesses more sustainable. In partnership with Retail Excellence and Champion Green and with the support of our sponsors AIB, Vodafone…The Sustainable Irish Retail Action (SIRA) Handbook is a guide which I co-wrote with Claire Cogan, for the Irish retail sector in 2022 to help raise the standards around ‘Sustainability Understanding and Practice’ within the Irish retail industry.
The guide was developed for the Irish retail sector to help retailers take practical steps to make their businesses more sustainable. In partnership with Retail Excellence and Champion Green and with the support of our sponsors AIB, Vodafone, Tap Creative and SuperValu, Think Plan Do Consulting and BehaviourWise launched Sustainable Irish Retail Action (SIRA) in June 2022. This is a practical step-by-step e-guide to making a retail business more sustainable.
We wanted the guide to be simple and easy for people to read and use so, designed by TapCreative, the guide contains advice, tips, ideas and over 20 case studies from within the retail community in Ireland. It also help readers navigate where to go for help with direct links to further information and support. The guide aims to empower and enable SMEs to ‘build more sustainable solutions’ into their business models by providing them with access to education, tools and support.Other creators -
Keynote Speaker at POPAI 2013 Conference
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I was delighted to participate as a guest speaker in the POPAI 2013 Conference in the Radission Dublin Airport, presenting on the Lifestyles of the On The Go Consumer in Ireland and the Role that Point of Purchase visibility can play in driving On The Go sales.
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Club Orange - The Best Bits In The World
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Club Orange 'The Best Bits In The World' was the communications vehicle and culmination of a strategic piece of work on the Club brand, an iconic Irish brand, which needed to reconnect with its core target audience. By working with a core team of people, both internal and external, we delivered a campaign which got the nation talking, consumers purchasing and 'Best Bits' was the most viewed Irish Ad on Youtube in 2011. I also got to shoot on location in Columbia with a brilliant team from…
Club Orange 'The Best Bits In The World' was the communications vehicle and culmination of a strategic piece of work on the Club brand, an iconic Irish brand, which needed to reconnect with its core target audience. By working with a core team of people, both internal and external, we delivered a campaign which got the nation talking, consumers purchasing and 'Best Bits' was the most viewed Irish Ad on Youtube in 2011. I also got to shoot on location in Columbia with a brilliant team from Chemistry and Blinder. Hard day at the office!
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Getting Your Value Proposition Right To Grow Your Business
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Keynote speaker at the Musgrave Marketplace and South Dublin Chamber networking evening, which is a great opportunity for SMEs to network with other businesses and get tips on growing their business. My theme for the evening was 'Getting Your Value Proposition Right To Grow Your Business' and I delivered a practical guide to businesses on how to develop a unique Value Proposition for their business and communicate this proposition to their customers.
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