The Retailer's Complete Book of Selling Games and Contests

The Retailer's Complete Book of Selling Games and Contests
Author: Harry J. Friedman
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2011-12-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1118216431

One hundred ways to motivate your sales teams to outsell each other and grow your profits In most retail stores, salespeople arrive at work with little enthusiasm to sell. The truth is that retail selling can be a little boring. It's up to owners and managers to provide the spark and motivation that inspires people to excel, even when store traffic is slow. One of the best ways to accomplish that is with selling games and contests. The Retailer's Complete Book of Selling Games & Contests contains more than one hundred selling games and contests that any retailer can use to motivate their staff, improve their sales skills, and generate extra sales during slow traffic periods. Geared toward retailers of all industries and all sizes, from single stores to mega chains, this book will appeal to those with a vested interest in improving the performance of their salespeople and driving sales higher. Details how to use games to sell specific merchandise, increase add-on sales, and sell higher priced merchandise and groups of merchandise Outlines how to structure games and contests, when to run them, and for how long Helps managers build their sales staffs' confidence and abilities through fostering a competitive spirit and rewarding high sellers Harry J. Friedman is an international retail authority, consultant, and the most heavily attended speaker on retail selling and operational management in the world today When you inspire your sales team to improve their skills and outsell each other, you'll boost your profits and outdo your competition

How to Sell

How to Sell
Author: John Hoerner
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2015-11-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1473529115

Whether it's ideas or products, in our business or for someone else, we all need to be able to sell. This book guides us through invaluable tips from John Hoerner, who has over 50 years' experience as a retailer. Divided into chapters covering all aspects of retail, John’s wisdom is summarised in short incisive quotes, including: advice on handling customers, stores, buyers, suppliers, stock management, marketing and PR, strategy, investment and people. How To Sell is an authoritative guide to becoming the best retailer you can be.

Taking the ¿I¿ Out of Clientele

Taking the ¿I¿ Out of Clientele
Author: Cheryl Beall
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 110
Release: 2006-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0595413692

Retail professionals know that successful selling means building a clientele. However, traditional sales training still puts too much attention on the seller and on developing strategies for the short-term sale. Taking the "I" Out of Clientele turns the conventional wisdom of selling on its head by moving the focus from the seller to the customer, where it truly belongs. After all, no one likes to be "sold." Customers want to be "helped." With simple, easy-to-apply strategies, retail expert Cheryl Beall shows how to turn potential customers into lifetime clients. You'll discover a selling style that is more natural, more comfortable, and ultimately more effective, as she reveals her proven secrets: * The Don'ts and Do's of Selling * The Indispensable Art of Intelligence Gathering * The 30-60-90 Day Contact Calendar * The WIFM- One Thing We Just Can't Live Without You'll also find tips for creating an effective "Rapid Response" thank-you note, a tactical telephone approach, and a client book that really gets results. By changing the question from "what can I sell the customer?" to "what does the customer need?" Taking the "I" Out of Clientele turns a simple business transaction into a relationship. The result is not only happier customers. It's better business.

Retail Bound

Retail Bound
Author: Yohan Jacob
Publisher:
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2008-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780595534388

Learn the ins and outs of retail and get your product on your favorite retailer's shelves. Thinking about selling your product to retailers? This no-nonsense guide walks you through the process of selling to and working with retailers-from designing, pricing, and presenting your products to getting repeat orders. Discover: The key questions that retail buyers will ask you How the four P's in marketing relate to retail and affect your bottom line How not to under-price your products Five ways to get a retail buyer's attention How to help retailers market your product Retail Bound: Learn How to Sell Your Products to Retailers helps entrepreneurs, inventors and small manufacturers learn how to get noticed by retail buyers big and small. Yohan Jacob has worked as both a sales rep and a merchandise buyer for retail, online, and catalog companies and has helped many prospective vendors break into the retail world."

How to Sell to Retail

How to Sell to Retail
Author: Clare Rayner
Publisher: Kogan Page Publishers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-02-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0749466812

Are you ready to take your business to the next level? If you've got a product to sell there's only so much growth you can sustain by selling directly to end users. The ultimate key to really developing your business into a bigger enterprise is to get it sold by retailers. But how do you convince a cautious retailer and give a great outward impression of your business, big or small? Working through a series of 5 logical sections broken down into 12 steps, How to Sell to Retail will teach you how to look big, plan big, pitch big, get big and stay big though successfully selling to retailers.

The Retail Sales Bible

The Retail Sales Bible
Author: Rick Segel
Publisher:
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2011-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781934683040

Rick Segel and Matthew Hudson, PhD have simplified the retail selling process into a user-friendly book filled with concepts that are memorable, easy to master, easy to use and will become a part of the salesperson's persona almost immediately. In this book you will learn The G.R.E.A.T. Selling System, which is an acronym for the 5 stages of selling Greeting, Researching, Experimenting, Add-ons and Tethering a customer to the store Ways to increase every sales associate's ATS, Average Transaction Size Ways to increase every sales associate's UTS, Units Per Transaction The greatest opening line ever written with proven results The four words that increase a retailer's sales by 4 to 7 percent almost immediately The five most powerful words that will engage the customer in conversation, learn the customer's true wants and needs and can establish trust instantly"

Marketing Your Retail Store in the Internet Age

Marketing Your Retail Store in the Internet Age
Author: Bob Negen
Publisher: Wiley + ORM
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2010-12-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1118044703

If you own and operate a small retail business, this guide will give you a proven system for marketing your store, allowing you to compete with online merchants and big-box stores alike. Full of fresh and innovative ideas for promoting small stores, it will show you how to create a great in-store experience and build loyal, long-lasting relationships with customers.

How to Sell Anything to Anybody

How to Sell Anything to Anybody
Author: Joe Girard
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2006-02-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0743273966

Joe Girard was an example of a young man with perseverance and determination. Joe began his working career as a shoeshine boy. He moved on to be a newsboy for the Detroit Free Press at nine years old, then a dishwasher, a delivery boy, stove assembler, and home building contractor. He was thrown out of high school, fired from more than forty jobs, and lasted only ninety-seven days in the U.S. Army. Some said that Joe was doomed for failure. He proved them wrong. When Joe started his job as a salesman with a Chevrolet agency in Eastpointe, Michigan, he finally found his niche. Before leaving Chevrolet, Joe sold enough cars to put him in the Guinness Book of World Records as 'the world's greatest salesman' for twelve consecutive years. Here, he shares his winning techniques in this step-by-step book, including how to: o Read a customer like a book and keep that customer for life o Convince people reluctant to buy by selling them the right way o Develop priceless information from a two-minute phone call o Make word-of-mouth your most successful tool Informative, entertaining, and inspiring, HOW TO SELL ANYTHING TO ANYBODY is a timeless classic and an indispensable tool for anyone new to the sales market.