The importance of sharing in the retail industry

In my past 15+ years of experience in the fashion retail and visual merchandising industry, I saw almost every stage and role that belongs to this field.

One of the common characteristics I've to observed was the "jealousy" of their job and never understood why.

I'm not talking about a confidentiality agreement with brands or client, which is totally fine and of course mandatory in this industry. I'm talking about the willingness to share the personal experience with new to the field.

To me, this comes so naturally because I see an elevation of benchmark which I trust to be what we need to implement the visual merchandising sector nowadays.

That's what pushed me to spread my knowledge and by doing this, learn continually.

Feeling lucky enough to live in an era where social media are available to most of the human kind which means that the effort is minor compared to the number of people with whom you can share your knowledge.

As you might know, I have a YouTube Channel and Instagram page to do this.

When I started to spread my knowledge of visual merchandising I got plenty of critics from colleagues that told me bad things like “You are sharing OUR secrets” “You are letting everyone to be able to STEAL OUR JOB” and so on.

I ignored them and went straight into my path because I don’t believe it is true! (Well it hurts at the beginning, to be honest) 

What I really believe is that all of us can learn from others and we can be more powerful together instead of to be alone.

So, as 2018 just began, I got this challenge for you all: 

I'm willing to open up the #visualmerchandising and retail community and see how much one year could be impactful for one of the most "jealous" community in the industry of #retail .

Do you want to undergo the change or be part of it?

I created this really ambitious group on Facebook called Visual Merchandising Worldwide Community where I'd love to gather all the like-minded Visual Merchandiser, Retailers, and Students that are willing to share real experiences and learn from one another.

If you are willing this as well for our industry, come join us.