You know what’s important, especially in local small business retail? Coming up with fresh ideas. Big ideas, small ideas, ideas for new traffic, products, and services.
But it can be tough to come up with new ideas, right? Sometimes you feel like you’re stuck in a rut. Sometimes you feel alone. Sometimes you feel like you are growing in … stuff!
Well, we’re here at Tower Systems to help you out. We serve thousands of retailers and have experience in local small business retail ourselves.
Here are some suggestions for ways to clear that blockage, to discover fresh ideas:
- Try a sensory deprivation tank. It’s weird at first, but it’s a great way to relax and let your mind wander.
- Cook a complex meal that you’ve never cooked before. Or bake a cake. Or do a jigsaw puzzle. Or build a model. Just do something that you’re not used to doing.
- Go to a ballet or opera. Or a comedy show. Or a walk in the forest. Or sit in front of the ocean and look out to the horizon.
- Shut yourself in a dark room and put on your favourite music and sing along. Or try yoga, or meditation, or have a massage.
- Read a novel from cover to cover without interruption. Or do some gardening or other backyard work, or go for a long drive.
- Have a romantic dinner with your partner at a place you’ve never been before. Or take an unexpected day off and treat yourself to some guilty pleasures.
The point is to get lost in experiences that are unrelated to your business. By getting lost, getting truly lost, ideas have a better opportunity of surfacing.
So go out there and have some fun! The great ideas will follow.
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Why this advice from our POS software company matters.
Every day we connect with small business retailers about their businesses, through our help desk, in sales situations and elsewhere. Owning and running a local small business retail shop is challenging, time-consuming. Coming up with fresh ideas is hard. It’s necessary though. The ideas we share here are things we have tried, and found to work.
We love trying new things as we have found that in those unknown places creativity thrives.
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