Balancing the Bricks and Clicks with Jarrold's Neil Park

Neil Park is the Head of eCommerce at Jarrold’s Department Store. The store was founded in 1770 and is a shopping, beauty and dining destination in its home town of Norwich. They’ve had an eCommerce store for 10 years, that really came into its own during the last 2 pandemic years pushing sales up 250%, and leading to 3.8 million visitors a year online.As well as discussing what it's like to balance the needs of a historic, regionally famous store with an eCommerce store, we're focusing in on key recent developments around their local artisan marketplace, and a brilliant gift finder.Get all the links and resources we mention at eCommerceMasterPlan.comThis podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podsights - https://podsights.com/privacy

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Trying to work out how to acquire more customers? Need to improve customer retention? Or just looking for some reassurance you’re on the right track? That’s what the eCommerce MasterPlan is here for. Every week we interview an e-Commerce business person (owner, manager or marketer) with a fascinating insight into successful online retailing. Their business might be a UK mail order retailer, an online-only store from Australia, or a brick and clicks business from the USA – but every one of them is doing something we can all learn from. Many of our guests are using Shopify & Klaviyo, but we also have guests using Wix, Bigcommerce, Woocommerce, Omnisend and Magento. So you're sure to find an episode that directly helps YOU. Listen for advice on what to do next, the reassurance you’re heading in the right direction and all the inspiration you need to grow your eCommerce business without losing your life in the process!This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podsights - https://podsights.com/privacy