Boost your Sales this Merry Christmas

From www.whizbangtraining.com

24 Ways to Save Your Sanity and Boost Your Sales This Holiday Season

1. Attempt to add-on to every sale.
2. Load up on impulse items.
3. Sell up.
4. Keep demonstrating.
5. Making shopping easier.
6. Eliminate buying resistance.
7. Offer gift wrapping.
8. Get out on the selling floor.
9. TRAIN and COACH your staff.
10. Keep a close eye on your best sellers.
11. Always know the status of important orders.
12. Increase your store hours.
13. Make shopping FUN.
14. Have lotsd of sales games for your employees.
15. Put a spiff on high-margin, high volume items.
16. Mark down slow moving merchandise on time.
17. Use bag stuffers.
18. Collect names and addresses.
19. Decorate your store.
20. Make your regular customers feel special.
21. Wear good shoes.
22. Eat well and drink lots of water.
23. Get as much sleep as you can...Zzzz.
24. Smile. Remember, it's Christmas!

Rural Community Development

The criteria a rural community needs to gather BEFORE hosting a new prospective business includes the following:
1. Demographic Characteristics
2. Labor Force Characteristics
3. Leading Employers by All Sectors & Individual Sectors
4. Companies new to the area in the last 3 years and/or have expanded within the last 2 years
5. Military Base & Installations closest
6. Research Base - top 50 based R & D personnel closest
7. Higher Education Resources: 4-Year Institutions closest
8. Higher Education Resources: Community Colleges closest
9. Vocational/Technical Center Resources excluding Community Colleges closest
10. Average Salary by Selected Occupation
11. Workers Compensation & Unemployment Insurance
12. Labor-Management Relations
13. Transportation available
14. Taxation in State and City
15. Occupancy/Supply
16. Utilities in area w/contact information
17. Environmental
18. Government
19. International Resources
20. Quality of Life - parks, arts, productions, organizations
21. Available office building(s)
22. Existing Office Site Profile
23. Available Industrial Building(s)
24. Existing Industrial Site Profile

Planning is crucial to success

"Make a plan or you have a plan for failure". Do you think this mirrors your experience?