OK let’s focus on sales. Without further ado here are 8 suggestions for ways to sell more. Hopefully, at least one will be something new to try. Change is good:
1. One for the owners and managers: interact on the sales force with your staff and your customers. Be visible and foster relationships.
2. The retail world moves forwards changing all the time. Don’t look back to the glory days. Innovate, take a view on the future.
3. Browsers. For all those people who just can’t be engaged by your sales people get the sales people to give these ‘browsers’ a flyer. The flyer (terrible word) can be a discount voucher, an unadvertised promotion or a brief look at a new product, anything of value. Keep it succinct.
4. On weekends when you are particularly busy ensure that a senior staff member greets entering customers and tries to engage with leaving ones (who have not purchased) to ask them what they were looking for that they could not find.
5. Make sure your best sales people are selling on busy days. Ensure they are properly incentivized to SELL. Customer service is great but you want the money, right?
6. Consider a promotional event that is invitation only for your best customers (and anyone they want to bring along). Make sure there is genuinely something in it for the attendees.
7. Ask your salespeople what can be done on a practical day-to-day level to sell more. More products? Better layout? Different incentivisation or promotion?
8. Work your networks. Through Facebook; through staff, friends and family, email list.
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This is a great post, would have loved to have shared, but no share bar or way to retweet. Together we all go farther, M
Hi Melissa, you caught me out there. We havea wordpress hosted blog so we have to add the share bar / buttons for each post each time. I’ll change it soon, my omission. I think it should have been automotically sent to my twitter feed…maybe you can re-tweet it through that?